Process Mapping

About the buyer

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist NHS cancer centre in Manchester, and buys as a healthcare provider within the NHS trusts category. Procurement opportunities are published on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Contracts nearing expiry are re-procured under the Trust's Standing Financial Instructions and the Public Contracts Regulations. A strategic procurement team handles supplier enquiries and contract pipeline questions. An Executive Director of Finance and Business Development oversees the Trust's finance and procurement function. Recent tenders have covered pathology equipment, digital patient records and IT consultancy.

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 Christie NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in business services, IT services and software and information systems.