Quick answer — Nursing And Midwifery CouncilLast refreshed 09 Oct 2026

At a glance

Nursing And Midwifery Council has awarded £278.8m across 212 suppliers, with 112 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 7% · 16 open notices now · 6 awards in last 90 d (£4.2m) · SME share 47% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration7%
Modifications · 90 d1
SME spend share47%
Pipeline · open now16
Awards · 90 d6

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Nursing And Midwifery Council is a contracting authority, based in UKI32. Tracks 382 published notices and 362 awards on PublicSupply.

382
Notices published
362
Awards
212
Suppliers engaged
2017
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£5.9m
12 m spend
£24.5m
Prior 12 m
-76%
YoY change
£89k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Nursing And Midwifery Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£4m£8m£12m£17mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

20

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

16

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

6

£4.2m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services41 · £360.9m
Unspecified340 · £220.7m
goods1 · £0

Instrument type

contract364 · £579.1m
call off18 · £2.4m
Source:Contracts Finder: 323Find a Tender: 59

Awarded contracts · 112 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Nursing And Midwifery Council is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Test of Competence: Provision of Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Facility and Associated Services72820000£54.2mest.planning
Test of Competence: Provision of Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Facility and Associated Services72820000£54.2mest.planning
Provision of Partner Support For New Ways of Working and Casework Support at InvestigationsPricewaterhouseCoopers LLP72221000£2.1m10 Apr 2026active
CMS DevelopmentCloudSource72000000£1.5m01 Apr 2026active
Contractor for the provision of SharePoint and Purview Support for the NMC's Modernisation of the Fitness to Practice Systems ProgrammeFrank Recruitment Group Services Limited72000000£94k17 Apr 2026active
Legal AdjudicationsBATES WELLS & BRAITHWAITE LONDON LLPactive
Manned Security Guarding Services for NMC PremisesSSG Support Services Group Ltd79710000£88k25 Mar 2026active
Support for Egress Email SecuritySapphireactive
FTP ITS Perito Management SolutionITS Computing48000000£264k01 Apr 2026active
Provision of Group Life AssuranceISIO GROUP LIMITEDactive
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
OC
£20.0m
7% of total
2
HH
£18.0mest.
6% of total
3
CL
6 contracts · SME · 26 Aug01 Apr
£12.0m
4% of total
New
4
IM
£12.0mest.
4% of total
5
TQ
1 contract · SME · 24 Apr
£7.2m
3% of total
6
UI
£6.0mest.
2% of total
7
CL
£6.0mest.
2% of total
8
DL
1 contract
£6.0mest.
2% of total
9212
···
204 other suppliers
long tail · 107 SMEs
£70.6m
25% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Education, training
19 contracts
£315.7m
51%
IT services, software
99 contracts
£165.0m
27%
Health & social work
23 contracts
£68.4m
11%
Business, legal, advisory
91 contracts
£32.2m
5%
Software packages, IT
49 contracts
£23.4m
4%
Other
26 contracts
£11.5m
2%
Support transport services
2 contracts
£3.0m
0%
R&D services
29 contracts
£2.7m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Education, training
IT services, software
0
0
0
0
0
4
Health & social work
Business, legal, advisory
0
Software packages, IT
0
0
0
0
0
0
Other
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 · 1 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 1 notice 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.

47%
SME supplier share
target 33%
148
SME award rows
10
VCSE award rows
212
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
UKI32
Companies House
01091434
Charity no.
1091434
Contact
Jeremy Pewton
Email
procurement@nmc-uk.org

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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