Quick answer — Northern Ireland Ambulance ServiceLast refreshed 07 Jun 2026

At a glance

Northern Ireland Ambulance Service has awarded £525k across 2 suppliers, with 10 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 100% · 6 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 60% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration100%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share60%
Pipeline · open now6
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is a contracting authority, based in UKN. Tracks 13 published notices and 5 awards on PublicSupply.

13
Notices published
5
Awards
2
Suppliers engaged
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
£1.6m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Northern Ireland Ambulance Service — 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

2

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

6

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

services5 · £11.3m
goods8 · £10.7m

Instrument type

contract13 · £22.0m
Source:Find a Tender: 13

Awarded contracts · 10 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Northern Ireland Ambulance Service is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Spinal, Blood Collection Needles and Associated Products33000000£7.9mest.active
Clinical Trolleys and Equipment34911100£2.3mest.active
Skin Stapling DevicesMEDLINE IRELAND LIMITED33140000£525kest.active
Dynamic Resource Optimisation - NIAS [5528995]72000000£300kest.active
Extension of Computer Aided Dispatch system contractMIS Emergency Systemsactive
Extension of Computer Aided Dispatch system contractMIS Emergency Systemsactive
ID 4024822 - DoF - NICSHR - Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) Service for the NI Public Sector - 202285100000£10.0mest.active
Extension of Computer Aided Dispatch system contractMIS Emergency Systemsactive
Occupational Hygiene Services [3339481]90710000£1.0mest.active
Extension of Computer Aided Dispatch system contractMIS Emergency Systemsactive
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
MI
1 contract · SME
£525kest.
100% of total
2
ME
4 contracts · SME
£0
0% of total

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Health & social work
2 contracts
£10.0m
45%
Medical, pharmaceutical
2 contracts
£8.4m
38%
Transport equipment, vehicles
1 contract
£2.3m
10%
Sewage, waste, environment
1 contract
£1.0m
5%
IT services, software
1 contract
£300k
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Health & social work
Medical, pharmaceutical
Transport equipment, vehicles
Sewage, waste, environment
IT services, software
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.

Northern Ireland Ambulance Service 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.

60%
SME supplier share
target 33%
3
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
2
Distinct suppliers

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
UKN
Contact
Frank Rafferty
Email
palscollegestreet.sourcing@hscni.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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