Quick answer — NHS Arden and GEM CSULast refreshed 23 Dec 2024

At a glance

NHS Arden and GEM CSU has awarded £26.3m across 92 suppliers, with 17 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 13% · 4 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 61% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration13%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share61%
Pipeline · open now4
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

NHS Arden and GEM CSU is a contracting authority, based in UKF2. Tracks 241 published notices and 232 awards on PublicSupply.

241
Notices published
232
Awards
92
Suppliers engaged
2021
First award on file

Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£0
12 m spend
£1.3m
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£55k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
NHS Arden and GEM CSU — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

4

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

4

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

Unspecified230 · £25.9m
services11 · £3.5m

Instrument type

contract241 · £29.4m
Source:Contracts Finder: 230Find a Tender: 11

Awarded contracts · 17 live

All contracts with a published award notice where NHS Arden and GEM CSU is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Senior Nurse Assessor for NHS Birmingham & Solihull ICB79600000£72k01 Oct 2024active
1876 IT Hardware for NHS Black Country ICB44316400£1.2m23 Dec 2024active
1784 Provision of an Electronic Patient Database for NHS Arden & GEM CSUBlueteq Limited£130kest.active
1808 Risk Stratification Algorithms Tool for NHS AGEM CSUJohns Hopkins HealthCare LLC72212517£190kest.active
1816 IT Hardware Call-Off for NHS Arden & GEM CSU30212000£63k31 Aug 2024active
IT Hardware Call-Off for NHS Arden & GEM CSU30212000£71k02 Apr 2024active
1647 Recruitment - CHC Nurse Assessor (Band 8b)VENN GROUP LIMITED85100000£45k18 Apr 2023active
1720 Apple iPad Pros Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust30212000£49k30 Mar 2024active
1710 IT Hardware Call-Off for NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit30212000£31k24 Jan 2024active
IT Hardware for NHS Hampshire, and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board30212000£1.0m03 Jul 2023active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
DC
32 contracts · 01 Dec11 Jan
£3.5m
13% of total
2
WL
1 contract · SME · 31 Aug
£1.5m
6% of total
3
SC
5 contracts · SME · 18 Nov22 Mar
£1.5m
6% of total
4
SJ
10 contracts · 01 Oct14 Oct
£1.4m
5% of total
5
XL
2 contracts · 30 Nov14 Mar
£1.3m
5% of total
6
BS
3 contracts · 02 Mar06 May
£1.0m
4% of total
7
CP
19 contracts · 13 Dec26 Jun
£1.0m
4% of total
8
ID
6 contracts · 15 Nov21 Dec
£881k
3% of total
992
···
84 other suppliers
long tail · 50 SMEs
£9.1m
35% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Office equipment, IT
70 contracts
£10.4m
37%
Business, legal, advisory
49 contracts
£4.1m
14%
IT services, software
37 contracts
£3.7m
13%
Software packages, IT
26 contracts
£3.6m
13%
Health & social work
26 contracts
£3.5m
12%
Construction materials
5 contracts
£1.7m
6%
Other
5 contracts
£872k
3%
Radio, TV, communications
8 contracts
£399k
1%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Office equipment, IT
Business, legal, advisory
IT services, software
Software packages, IT
Health & social work
Construction materials
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 0 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

NHS Arden and GEM CSU has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

61%
SME supplier share
target 33%
122
SME award rows
2
VCSE award rows
92
Distinct suppliers

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKF2
Contact
Mark Didcock
Email
mark.didcock@nhs.net

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

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