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About the buyer

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is an NHS trust providing acute hospital services across Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, with its own dedicated procurement service. Shropshire Healthcare Procurement Service, hosted by the Trust, buys on behalf of three local NHS organisations. Contract opportunities are advertised through Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Suppliers register on the ADB Multiquote portal to respond to quotes and tenders. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements and the Crown Commercial Service.

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 The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, construction work and furniture and furnishings.