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About the buyer

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust runs hospital services across York and Scarborough, buying as an NHS trust through a shared procurement function. Procurement documents and tender notices appear on the Health Family eSourcing portal, with submissions made electronically. Larger contracts are also advertised on Find a Tender. The Trust shares this function with Hull University Teaching Hospitals and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole, its partners in the Humber and North Yorkshire Procurement Collaborative. Suppliers register through the Achilles assurance platform for shared visibility.

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 York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in repair and maintenance, health and social work and medical equipment and pharmaceuticals.