Quick answer — NHS Shared Business Services (SBS)Last refreshed 25 Aug 2022

At a glance

NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) has awarded £6.0m across 60 suppliers.

Why: Top supplier share 21% · 0 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 0% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration21%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share0%
Pipeline · open now0
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) is a contracting authority, based in United Kingdom. Tracks 476 published notices and 476 awards on PublicSupply.

476
Notices published
476
Awards
60
Suppliers engaged
2016
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
£44k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) — 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

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

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

Unspecified476 · £6.0m

Instrument type

contract464 · £6.0m
call off12 · £0
Source:Contracts Finder: 476

Awarded contracts · 0 live

All contracts with a published award notice where NHS Shared Business Services (SBS) is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
RA318130 - YO5 - NWL CCG - Diabetes Social Media CampaignFAN THE FLAMES MARKETING & DESIGN LIMITED79000000£15k25 Aug 2022active
RA314325 - NWL CCG - Blood Pressure MonitorsCIGA Healthcare Ltd33000000£24k07 Apr 2022active
RA310322 - Scale Maintenance - Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust and Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation TrustMarsden Weighing Machine Group Ltd33000000£203k03 Feb 2022active
RA297108 - X24 - Digital Passport for Doctors in Training (DiT) Discovery PartnerPricewater House Coopers (PWC) LLP79000000£99k10 Mar 2021active
RA297412 - X24 - Palliative and End of Life -LexiconWHITE ROSE HEALTHCARE CONSULTING LIMITED79000000£35k26 Feb 2021active
RA287923 - COVID-19: Lessons Learned - Research, Innovation and Partnership Working79000000£0active
RA287496 - X24 - Provision of a Series of Hackathons79000000£0active
RA287495 - CLARIFICATIONS ONLY - NHSX Provision of Recruitment Services (RA287097)79000000£0active
RA287244 - UK Political, Parliamentary and Stakeholder Monitoring Service75000000£0active
RA285536 - 0AR - Microsoft Power Apps SupportIncremental Group79000000£84k21 Jul 2020active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
CL
7 contracts · 03 Mar26 May
£1.3m
21% of total
2
KF
4 contracts · 20 Sept08 Jun
£538k
9% of total
3
XL
1 contract · 13 Mar
£462k
8% of total
4
SC
5 contracts · 18 Feb13 Mar
£331k
6% of total
5
NB
3 contracts · 05 Nov18 Mar
£289k
5% of total
6
MW
£203k
3% of total
7
BY
2 contracts · 01 Oct07 Jul
£164k
3% of total
8
BU
1 contract · 06 Feb
£150k
3% of total
960
···
52 other suppliers
long tail · 0 SMEs
£2.6m
43% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
212 contracts
£2.5m
43%
Office equipment, IT
28 contracts
£1.3m
22%
Software packages, IT
49 contracts
£1.0m
17%
IT services, software
9 contracts
£519k
9%
Medical, pharmaceutical
48 contracts
£227k
4%
R&D services
11 contracts
£150k
3%
Health & social work
28 contracts
£120k
2%
Radio, TV, communications
15 contracts
£50k
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Business, legal, advisory
Office equipment, IT
Software packages, IT
IT services, software
Medical, pharmaceutical
R&D services
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

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

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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 Shared Business Services (SBS) 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.

0%
SME supplier share
target 33%
0
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
60
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 0% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
United Kingdom

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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