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.
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.
Spend profile
Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.
Contract pipeline
Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.
Planned
4
Open (bidding)
4
Awarded (90d)
0
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 17 live
All contracts with a published award notice where NHS Arden and GEM CSU is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Nurse Assessor for NHS Birmingham & Solihull ICB | — | 79600000 | £72k | 01 Oct 2024 | active |
| 1876 IT Hardware for NHS Black Country ICB | — | 44316400 | £1.2m | 23 Dec 2024 | active |
| 1784 Provision of an Electronic Patient Database for NHS Arden & GEM CSU | Blueteq Limited | £130kest. | — | active | |
| 1808 Risk Stratification Algorithms Tool for NHS AGEM CSU | Johns Hopkins HealthCare LLC | 72212517 | £190kest. | — | active |
| 1816 IT Hardware Call-Off for NHS Arden & GEM CSU | — | 30212000 | £63k | 31 Aug 2024 | active |
| IT Hardware Call-Off for NHS Arden & GEM CSU | — | 30212000 | £71k | 02 Apr 2024 | active |
| 1647 Recruitment - CHC Nurse Assessor (Band 8b) | VENN GROUP LIMITED | 85100000 | £45k | 18 Apr 2023 | active |
| 1720 Apple iPad Pros Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust | — | 30212000 | £49k | 30 Mar 2024 | active |
| 1710 IT Hardware Call-Off for NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit | — | 30212000 | £31k | 24 Jan 2024 | active |
| IT Hardware for NHS Hampshire, and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board | — | 30212000 | £1.0m | 03 Jul 2023 | active |
Top suppliers · by total award value
Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.
Category spend breakdown
By CPV division · lifetime awards
Activity heatmap
Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.
Commercial & procurement leadership
Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.
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.
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.
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.
target 33%
Peer benchmark
vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.
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News mentions
Major UK press & trade publications.
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Statutory & accountability
Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.
Identifiers & contact
- Type
- Contracting authority
- Region
- UKF2
- Contact
- Mark Didcock
- mark.didcock@nhs.net
Board & accountable officers
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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