2070 NICOR Consultancy Support for NHS Arden & GEM CSU

About the buyer

NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit is an NHS commissioning support unit providing strategic and transactional procurement services to integrated care boards, NHS trusts and NHS England. Regulated procurements are run on behalf of those customers, including the publication of tender notices. Customer sourcing and contract management run on Atamis, the NHS procurement and tendering platform. Procurement support for NHS England is delivered under a lead provider model with three partner CSUs. Categories span healthcare services, workforce, digital and ICT, pharmacy, estates and transport.

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 Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit's contract awards have been in software and information systems, business services and IT services.