NHS Tenders

The NHS and the Department for Health & Social Care are big business; with spending having exceeded £190 billion in 2021/22 through tenders and framework opportunities.

NHS Frameworks and contracts can be located across numerous sites, which can often prove confusing. For our clients looking to win work with the NHS, we have developed the following services:

• Market research: finding the right frameworks and contract opportunities, highlighting the contracts that competitors hold and collating the tender requirements so you know what is required to successfully bid

• Tender Alert service: we will research and monitor these opportunities for you, providing you with a daily summary, not via automated emails but by using the understanding and knowledge of your business built by our team

• Bid Writing & Bid Management: to help you prepare for tenders and ultimately respond in the best way possible to maximise your success.

The ability to locate these tenders, before even considering whether or not to bid, can oftentimes prove stressful, hence why we created our Tender Pipeline software. There are many portals which are used, across different NHS trusts, geographical locations and specialisms. Briefly speaking, these portals can be split into two categories; those where tenders are advertised and those which manage tender activities. 

Useful sites where NHS tenders are advertised:

• Technology products, G Cloud, Occupational Health and software via - https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/technology-suppliers/finding-contracting-opportunities

• Central Government / Public Sector advertising platform for high value for contracts - https://www.gov.uk/find-tender

• Central Government / Public Sector advertising platform for lower value for contracts -£10k and over - https://www.gov.uk/contracts-finder

• The Government tender and frameworks for the majority of large and national frameworks. An excellent resource for finding future pipeline opportunities- https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/

• NHS Shared Business Services is another key healthcare framework organisation, largely focused on corporate services which support the NHS such as procurement, consultancy, office and IT, though they do also have a popular construction framework

• https://www.sbs.nhs.uk/article/6563/Information-for-Framework-Agreement-Suppliers

• https://www.supplychain.nhs.uk/categories/

The following are portals that manage the tender exercises, where you can communicate with the NHS Trust and submit your bid:

• http://procurement.supplychain.nhs.uk/iss/

• http://www.supplying2nhs.org/

• https://commercialsolutions.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml

• https://nhsengland.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html

• https://in-tendhost.co.uk/supplychain/aspx/Home

• https://nhssupplychain.app.jaggaer.com/web/login.html

• https://www.eoecph.nhs.uk/Suppliers.htm

• https://www.lppsourcing.org/

The following are portals that manage the tender exercises, where you can communicate with the NHS Trust and submit your bid:

• https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/Contracts/Contracts_Search