Department of Health and Social Care

What they have awarded, by year

Our award history is not continuous. We hold notices published January 2021 to July 2022, and September 2022 to November 2022, and July 2023 to August 2026, and nothing published between December 2022 and June 2023 — a gap of 7 months. Any period overlapping that gap is understated here, and the change between periods is not a market trend.

• 2024£114,425,192 · 132
• 2025£174,648,815 · 75
• 2026£76,401,458 · 93

Years with no bar are years we hold no award notices for this buyer — which may mean they bought nothing, or that we do not have that period. We do not fill gaps in.

What they buy

• Business services189 contracts
• IT services65 contracts
• Medical equipment53 contracts
• Health & social52 contracts
• CPV 7325 contracts
• CPV 3521 contracts
• Education21 contracts
• Software18 contracts
• Architecture & engineering16 contracts
• CPV 3111 contracts

Who wins their work

• INSIGHT EXECUTIVE GROUP LIMITED12 awards
• HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED11 awards
• DAC Beachcroft LLP8 awards
• HEALTHCARE LOCUMS PLC (HCL HEALTHCARE PLC)7 awards
• PA CONSULTING SERVICES LIMITED7 awards
• VWR International Limited6 awards
• ROBERTSON BELL LTD6 awards
• IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD5 awards
• MILLS & REEVE LLP5 awards
• YouGov Plc5 awards

How contested their contracts are

Of the awards that report it, the average was 4.4 bidders, and 17 were awarded to a single bidder — 33% of that sample.

Based on the 51 of 508 awards that publish a bidder count — buyers are not required to, and most do not.

How often they buy

Across the period we hold, Department of Health and Social Care has awarded a contract roughly every 0.2 months on average.

That is an average across all their categories, not a schedule — and it is not a prediction of when any particular contract comes up. UK award notices almost never publish a contract end date, so nobody can build a reliable expiry calendar from open data. Why that is, and what works instead.