NHS Tenders and Contracts

NHS notices are published across 100+ portals: Find a Tender, Contracts Finder, Public Contracts Scotland and dozens of individual trust and ICB e-tendering sites. Stotles pulls them into one search and tracks notices from pre-tender market engagement through to award, so you can see what a trust is planning before it goes out to the market.

NHS notices span clinical work such as diagnostics, elective care, pharmacy and pathology, alongside the non-clinical side of running a trust: estates and facilities management, IT and digital platforms, workforce and specialist recruitment, and patient transport. Buyers range from a single acute trust running one contract to arm's length bodies like NHS Business Services Authority procuring on behalf of the wider service.

There is no single NHS approved supplier list. Suppliers get in by winning a place on a national or regional framework agreement, or by winning an individual trust, integrated care board or arm's length body's own tender directly. Reading a buyer's own commercial strategy and forward plan before a tender opens is the way to see a re-tender coming rather than finding out once it is already live.

NHS notices most often carry codes for Health services and for Health and social work services more broadly, with hospital-specific work carrying its own Hospital services code.

There is no single national NHS procurement directory. Each trust, integrated care board and arm's length body runs its own procurement team, published on its own website and named on its own tender documents. Stotles surfaces the buyer behind every notice, so once you have found a live NHS tender you can see who to approach rather than starting from a switchboard number.