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About the buyer

Cardiff & Vale University Health Board runs hospital and community health services for Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, and buys as a healthcare organisation through NHS Wales' shared procurement service. NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership carries out procurement on its behalf, hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust. Tenders and frameworks are advertised on Sell2Wales, the national portal for Welsh public sector opportunities. Suppliers submit bids through the Bravo e-tenderwales system. Frameworks span medical, pharmaceutical and facilities goods and services.

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 Cardiff & Vale University Health Board's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, health and social work and business services.