Diagnostic Imaging Services MRI at Colchester Hospital

About the buyer

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust runs acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich as a healthcare NHS trust. Suppliers submit tenders and requests to participate through its portal at suppliers.multiquote.com. Contract notices are also advertised on Find a Tender. Specifications and tender documents use the NHS Terms and Conditions for Goods and Services. The trust's e-commerce activity sits within Atamis, the NHS-wide platform, including its Evergreen sustainable supplier assessment. Procurement enquiries go through the trust's commissioning team in Ipswich.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, health and social work and business services.