Quick answer — NHS SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITEDLast refreshed 24 Mar 2026

At a glance

NHS SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED has awarded £1195.1bn across 1191 suppliers, with 3265 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 2% · 60 open notices now · 1 award in last 90 d (£14k) · SME share 61% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 2 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration2%
Modifications · 90 d2
SME spend share61%
Pipeline · open now60
Awards · 90 d1

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

NHS SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED is a contracting authority, based in UKI31. Tracks 248 published notices and 2224 awards on PublicSupply.

248
Notices published
2224
Awards
1191
Suppliers engaged
2015
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£32.0bn
12 m spend
£279k
Prior 12 m
+11466193%
YoY change
£280.0m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
NHS SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£6394m£12788m£19181m£25575mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

68

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

60

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£14k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services154 · £40.4bn
goods60 · £17.4bn
works6 · £3.0bn
Unspecified28 · £1.7bn

Instrument type

contract247 · £62.5bn
call off1 · £43k
Source:Find a Tender: 228Contracts Finder: 20

Awarded contracts · 3265 live

All contracts with a published award notice where NHS SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Advanced Wound Care and Lymphoedema Products and Services33140000closed
Healthcare AI Solutions33110000£750.0mest.active
ISO27001 Internal Audit ProgrammePureCyber Limited72810000£15k07 Nov 2025active
Sophos LicensesSoftcat PLC48761000£314k21 Jan 2026active
Endpoint port protection and removable media encryptionBytes Software Services Limited48732000£14k24 Mar 2026active
IT Health Check DashboardPhoenix Software Ltd48730000£72k10 Jan 2026active
Public Sector Construction Works 245000000£750.0mest.planned
Public Sector Construction Consultancy71000000£2.3bnest.planned
Provision of IT Health CheckSapphire Technologies Limited72800000£29k20 Jan 2026active
Digital CHC and Case Management SolutionAccess UK Limited48000000£45k10 Oct 2025active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
XL
17 contracts
£22.5bnest.
2% of total
2
SP
12 contracts · 21 Jan
£13.5bnest.
1% of total
New
3
CL
12 contracts · 01 Apr
£13.5bnest.
1% of total
4
ID
£12.0bnest.
1% of total
5
AF
£11.5bnest.
1% of total
6
DC
£11.5bnest.
1% of total
7
EE
7 contracts · SME
£11.5bnest.
1% of total
8
SC
£11.5bnest.
1% of total
91191
···
1,183 other suppliers
long tail · 814 SMEs
£894.1bn
75% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction materials
215 contracts
£710.3bn
36%
Office equipment, IT
371 contracts
£597.8bn
30%
Health & social work
314 contracts
£296.5bn
15%
Medical, pharmaceutical
314 contracts
£94.8bn
5%
IT services, software
241 contracts
£91.1bn
5%
Architecture, engineering
135 contracts
£75.7bn
4%
Other
369 contracts
£74.2bn
4%
Business, legal, advisory
669 contracts
£60.2bn
3%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Construction materials
Office equipment, IT
Health & social work
Medical, pharmaceutical
IT services, software
0
0
0
Architecture, engineering
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 · 2 in 90 d

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

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 2 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

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%
1883
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
1191
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
UKI31
Companies House
05280446
Contact
Maria Amariei
Email
nsbs.procurementsolutionssourcing@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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