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Quick answer — STAFFORDSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNITLast refreshed 16 May 2024

At a glance

STAFFORDSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT has awarded £198.5m across 103 suppliers, with 39 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 47% · 1 open notice now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 11% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration47%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share11%
Pipeline · open now1
Awards · 90 d0
Supplier?PipelineTop suppliersCategories boughtWatchdog?ModificationsFOIA & transparencySME share

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

STAFFORDSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT is a contracting authority, based in UKD4. Tracks 305 published notices and 304 awards on PublicSupply.

305
Notices published
304
Awards
103
Suppliers engaged
2020
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
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YoY change
£33k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
STAFFORDSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT — 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)

1

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

Unspecified303 · £198.5m
services2 · £16.3m

Instrument type

contract285 · £149.3m
call off20 · £65.4m
Source:Contracts Finder: 303Find a Tender: 2

Awarded contracts · 39 live

All contracts with a published award notice where STAFFORDSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB - Request for Quote - Lot 1: Transforming Care, Education and Treatment Review (C(E)TR) Support - Lot 2: Training and Development to Support Transforming Care—85100000£340k22 Apr 2024active
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust (NSCHT) - Safe Haven Community Provision—85323000£0—active
NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICB - Adult Autism Post-Diagnosis Support Service (AAPDSS) - Halton and Warrington Place—85100000£0—active
NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Adults Mental Health Lot 3 Psychologically Informed Interventions—85100000£0—active
Tier 1 Ophthalmology Services for the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICBPRIMARY EYECARE SERVICES LIMITED85100000£16.3m16 May 2024active
Lancashire & South Cumbria Adults Mental Health-Lot 1 Peer Support, Lot 2 PH SMI—85100000£0—active
Lancs & South Cumbria - Children and Young People Mental Health & Emotional Wellbeing - Lot 6 Resilience & Prevention (Multi-Lot)—85100000£0—active
Lancaster, Morecambe Bay & South Cumbria Lymphoedema Service - Cancer & Non Cancer—85100000£0—active
NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Community DermatologyOmnes Healthcare Limited85100000£9.0m14 Jul 2023active
A DIGITAL ALL AGE MENTAL HEALTH ONLINE COUNSELLING SERVICE—85000000£0—active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
NW
North West Ambulance Service N H S Trust
1 contract · 01 Feb
£94.1m
47% of total
—
2
PC
PRIMARY CARE 24 (MERSEYSIDE) LIMITED
1 contract · SME · 24 Nov
£20.8m
10% of total
—
3
PE
PRIMARY EYECARE SERVICES LIMITED
2 contracts · SME · 30 Nov – 16 May
£17.8m
9% of total
—
4
LH
LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
1 contract · 20 Apr
£11.5m
6% of total
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5
WM
West Midlands Ambulance Service Nhs Foundation Trust
1 contract · 22 Aug
£11.3m
6% of total
—
6
OH
Omnes Healthcare Limited
1 contract · 14 Jul
£9.0m
5% of total
—
7
SH
SW HEALTHCARE LIMITED
1 contract · SME · 13 Aug
£4.4m
2% of total
—
8
BT
BLACKPOOL TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
2 contracts · 07 Dec – 28 Jun
£4.4m
2% of total
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9–103
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95 other suppliers
long tail · 19 SMEs
£24.5m
12% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Transport services
3 contracts
£105.4m
49%
Health & social work
71 contracts
£81.7m
38%
Other
1 contract
£16.3m
8%
IT services, software
99 contracts
£4.9m
2%
Business, legal, advisory
108 contracts
£3.5m
2%
Financial, insurance
3 contracts
£944k
0%
R&D services
9 contracts
£884k
0%
Government administration
1 contract
£306k
0%

Activity heatmap

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

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Transport services
Health & social work
Other
IT services, software
Business, legal, advisory
Financial, insurance
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.

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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.

STAFFORDSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT 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.

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SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

11%
SME supplier share
target 33%
27
SME award rows
2
VCSE award rows
103
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 11% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKD4
Contact
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Email
mlcsu.tendersnorth@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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