North East COIN/WAN Set Up

About the buyer

NHS North of England Commissioning Support Unit, known as NECS, is a healthcare organisation that provides procurement and contracting services to NHS England and its regional teams. Healthcare services are commissioned under the Provider Selection Regime. The NECS Contracting Platform, created by the NHS for the NHS, supports each of those processes. A published procurement pipeline gives suppliers a forward look at larger planned projects, frameworks and call-offs. Recent procurements include specialist orthodontic services and healthcare for prisons across the North of England.

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 NHS North of England Commissioning Support Unit's contract awards have been in health and social work, IT services and software and information systems.