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About the buyer

Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust runs major teaching hospitals across south London, and buys as an NHS trust with its own procurement department based at Guy's Hospital. Larger contracts are advertised on Find a Tender, alongside notices for individual hospital schemes such as the St Thomas' energy project. The Trust hosts SmartTogether, a shared procurement service and supplier portal covering NHS trusts across south east London. Guy's & St Thomas' also hosts the NHS London Procurement Partnership, giving procurement advice and support to fellow NHS providers.

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 Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in architectural and engineering services, construction work and repair and maintenance.