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By buyer · Find a Tender and Contracts Finder · read 22 October 2026

NHS tenders from UK public buyers

NHS tenders open now: 2,166. In the 12 months to 22 October 2026, UK public buyers published 17,481 matching notices. The newest recorded award went to CellPath Limited on 24 Jun 2026.

Checked against primary sources3 sources linked below

NHS tenders published each month, October 2025 to October 2026: bar chart of 17,481 UK notices
Notices per month, UK time. All matched by text.

Which NHS tenders are open now?

2,166 notices with a deadline still ahead on 22 October 2026, closing soonest first, all matched by text.

NHS tenders matched by text

Each title, buyer or stated region matches this hub’s rule. That is a word match, not a judgment of what is bought.

Showing 30 of 2,166. Search every open notice for “NHS”.

Which buyers publish the most NHS notices?

NHS England, with 1,524 notices of 17,481 in the 12 months to 22 October 2026.

  1. NHS England1,524
  2. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST557
  3. Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust403
  4. NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)385
  5. NHS Property Services Limited366
  6. NHS South Yorkshire Integrated Care Board301
  7. United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust298
  8. SOMERSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST238

Count of notices by the buyer name as published, 17,481 notices in the window, read 22 October 2026.

How many NHS notices are published each month?

About 1,460 a month over the last eleven full months; the busiest month was March 2026, with 2,005.

1859 of the 5625 NHS notices that stated a GBP value in the last 12 months fell in this band (33%). 3 of the open notices listed above are in it.

Counts come from this page’s data. A stated estimate is not the contract value, and frameworks are excluded.

StageNotices
Award10,540
Contract4,115
Tender1,623
Planning1,085
Tender cancellation80
Pre-procurement34
Pipeline4
Stage as the source records it, of 17,481 notices in the 12 months to 22 October 2026.
Stated valueNotices
Under £25,000408
£25,000 to £100,0001,859
£100,000 to £500,0001,862
£500,000 to £2 million788
£2 million or more708
Only the 5,625 notices that state a GBP value, excluding frameworks, placeholders of £1,000 or less and ceilings of £100 million or more. An estimate in a notice is not a contract value.

Who has won NHS contracts recently?

CellPath Limited won 1 of the award notices read for this hub, the most of any supplier.

The newest award

On 24 Jun 2026, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board recorded an award to CellPath Limited for “BCU-FTS-59576 Cellular Pathology Reagent Delivery and Collection”, at a recorded value of £175,000.

Read the award notice. Legacy award record; supplier allocation and signed-contract status unverified

SupplierAward notices won
CellPath Limited1
Fiscal Technologies Ltd1
Northpoint Wellbeing Limited1
PSL PRINT MANAGEMENT LTD1
Pentax UK Ltd1
Recornect BV1
See Contracts Finder Notice for the full supplier list1
Trustco plc1
Distinct notices per supplier, from the newest 200 of 14,655 award and contract notices in the window. From the legacy award table, which ends on 23 July 2026. A count of awards, never a sum of spend.

What counts as NHS tenders here?

Notices published by NHS bodies: trusts, foundation trusts, integrated care boards and NHS shared services. The hub is chosen by who is buying, not what is bought, so it runs from clinical services to cleaning and software.

Classified

The notice’s recorded classification (proposed by a model, each label checked by Jev) accepted this catalogue subject: health buyers. Classified notices are not yet published to public pages, so none appear here yet.

Matched by text

The buyer's name contains one of: nhs, integrated care board, foundation trust, health board. A word match is not a judgment of what is bought, so these are labelled as matches.

  1. Open the official notice

    Every notice above links to its page here and to its record on Find a Tender or Contracts Finder. The documents there are the tender; this page is not.
  2. Check the dates

    Note the deadline and any clarification or expression-of-interest date. Forecast and planning notices have no bid deadline yet.
  3. Check the route to market

    A framework or dynamic purchasing system call-off needs a place on that agreement first; an open procedure does not.
  4. Look at who won before

    The winners above show who has delivered this kind of contract recently and for which buyers.

Read the buyer’s own notice before you spend a day on any of these.

Track NHS tenders in one workspace

  1. 2,166 notices open now

    Listed above, closing soonest first, each linked to its page and the official record.
  2. NHS England published 1,524 notices

    The most of any buyer here, out of 17,481 in the last 12 months.
  3. CellPath Limited won 1 award

    The most of any supplier in the 200 award and contract notices read for this hub.
  4. About 1,460 notices a month

    Published on average over the last 11 full months, from 17,481 in the 12-month window.

Questions about this page

Short answers, with the figures read for this page.

How many NHS tenders are open now?
2,166 notices with a stated deadline still ahead on 22 October 2026, all matched by text. The list is read again every day.
Where are these notices published?
On Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, the UK government's two public notice services. Each notice on this site links to its official record there; read that record and its documents before deciding to bid.
How does a notice get into this hub?
By its title, buyer or stated region matching the hub's rule. Classified notices will be added here when they are published to public pages; a text match is never presented as a classification.
Are EU, Scottish and Welsh portals included?
No. Only Find a Tender and Contracts Finder are read. EU (TED) notices are never added to these UK counts, and notices that appear only on Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales or eTendersNI are not here.

Hubs that share buyers or suppliers with this one, and the full tender index.

Sources and method

Read at
22 October 2026, regenerated daily
Window
22 October 2025 to 22 October 2026, by publication date
Classification
Not yet published to public pages
  • Classified notices are not yet published to public pages, so every notice here is matched by text.
  • A text match means the notice's title, buyer or stated region fits this hub's rule. It is not a judgment of what is bought.
  • Live notices published more than 12 months ago are included only when they state a future deadline.
  • Award records come from the legacy award table, whose newest record is 23 July 2026.
  • Winners are read from the newest 200 of 14655 award and contract notices in the window.
  • UK notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder only. EU (TED) notices are not counted.

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