Surgical Tenders and Contracts

Search the portals for live surgical tenders, or move earlier and work the pipeline: pre-tender notices, board papers and capital plans name the kit a trust intends to replace before any tender exists. Stotles pulls surgical notices from 100+ portals into one search.

The codes that turn up most alongside surgical notices cover surgical instruments, operating-theatre devices, electrosurgical units and surgical gloves. Buyers apply them loosely. Plenty of surgical notices carry only a general medical equipment code, or no code at all.

Trusts and health boards buy the capital kit, usually calling off a national agreement rather than tendering from scratch. Consumables are bought collectively: national supply bodies and regional consortia run the large multi-supplier frameworks that individual hospitals then draw on. Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Ireland each run their own equivalents, so the same product reaches tender several times under different names.

A large share of them. The awards in this data are dominated by multi-supplier framework agreements and call-offs against them, which is how theatre consumables actually reach a hospital. For a surgical supplier, getting onto the agreement matters more than watching for one-off tenders.

A large corpus across every stage, with most of it made up of awards and a meaningful pool at pre-tender. Coverage is thinner at the open-tender end, so the award record is the more useful read: it shows which frameworks are running, and when they run out.