Quick answer — Nhs Blood & TransplantLast refreshed 21 Jul 2021

At a glance

Nhs Blood & Transplant has awarded £136.0m across 139 suppliers, with 47 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 9% · 9 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 26% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration9%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share26%
Pipeline · open now9
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Nhs Blood & Transplant is a contracting authority, based in UKK12. Tracks 267 published notices and 248 awards on PublicSupply.

267
Notices published
248
Awards
139
Suppliers engaged
2014
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£160k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Nhs Blood & Transplant — 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

8

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

9

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

Unspecified227 · £136.2m
services11 · £6.5m
goods29 · £0

Instrument type

contract250 · £133.0m
call off17 · £9.7m
Source:Contracts Finder: 227Find a Tender: 40

Awarded contracts · 47 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Nhs Blood & Transplant is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Support of existing Column Agglutination Testing (CAT) equipment33696100closed
Support of existing NHSBT Low Density Lipid (LDL) Removal ApheresisFRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE (UK) LIMITED33140000£100k13 Jul 2021active
Support of existing NHSBT Multi-functional Apheresis systemsTerumo BCT Europe33140000£1.6m21 Jul 2021active
Support of existing NHSBT Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) systemsLTD33140000£1.5m21 Jul 2021active
Support of existing NHSBT Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) systemsTHERAKOS (UK)33140000£1.5m21 Jul 2021active
Lease / Purchase of Cold Storage Containers & Associated Works45213210£0active
Oracle APEX Resource AugmentationTECHMODAL EMPLOYEES' TRUSTEES LIMITED72212100£500k17 Jun 2021active
Specialist Test ServicesEDGE TESTING SOLUTIONS LIMITED72820000£500k09 Jul 2021active
Support of existing NHSBT Multi-functional Apheresis systemsTerumo BCT Europe NV33693000active
Support of existing NHSBT Extracorporeal Photopheresis (ECP) systemsTherakos (UK) Ltd33693000active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
SL
2 contracts · SME · 03 Apr30 Apr
£12.8m
9% of total
2
VO
2 contracts · 21 Feb
£10.1m
7% of total
3
MI
1 contract · 13 Jun
£8.7m
6% of total
4
RO
£8.5m
6% of total
5
QL
1 contract · SME · 11 Feb
£6.0m
4% of total
6
IH
1 contract · 12 Oct
£5.2m
4% of total
7
SO
3 contracts · 13 Jun03 Oct
£5.2m
4% of total
8
IW
1 contract · 20 Jun
£4.0m
3% of total
9139
···
131 other suppliers
long tail · 35 SMEs
£75.0m
55% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Medical, pharmaceutical
92 contracts
£40.2m
30%
IT services, software
42 contracts
£38.8m
29%
Sewage, waste, environment
11 contracts
£17.6m
13%
Software packages, IT
12 contracts
£12.9m
10%
Repair & maintenance
26 contracts
£10.2m
8%
Support transport services
7 contracts
£6.3m
5%
Architecture, engineering
13 contracts
£4.0m
3%
Laboratory, scientific
8 contracts
£3.5m
3%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Medical, pharmaceutical
IT services, software
Sewage, waste, environment
Software packages, IT
Repair & maintenance
Support transport services
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 Blood & Transplant 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.

26%
SME supplier share
target 33%
47
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
139
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 26% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKK12
Contact
Marta Drozdzowska
Email
marta.drozdzowska@nhsbt.nhs.uk

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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