Public sector contracts from Department of Health and Social Care

Most active categories

• Business and professional services1,326
• IT services451
• Medical equipment and pharmaceuticals266
• Health and social care202
• Research and development166
• Software and information systems102

Department of Health and Social Care, in short

How these figures are worked out

• The last 12 months: award notices published from 9 November 2025 to 8 November 2026, each contract counted once however many suppliers or rows it has. The same window is used everywhere on this page.
• Year on year: Its published contract awards fell, then stayed broadly level in the last year. Contracts by publication date in the 12 months to 8 Nov 2026 and the two years before it, oldest first: 325, 182 and 198. A change of more than 15% counts as a rise or fall; each year needs at least 5 contracts.
• Most of its current contracts end in the next 12 months: 108 of its 192 contracts with an end date still to come end by 8 November 2027. Shown when that is more than half, with at least 5.
• Has published 4 planned procurements: Pipeline notices on Find a Tender whose expected tender date is still to come, or passed in the last 30 days.
• Has awarded contracts every year since 2021: At least one contract in every calendar year from 2021 to 2026, by award date (or publication date where the award date is later). Our records begin in 2021.
• Took on 63 new suppliers in the last 12 months: Suppliers named on a contract it awarded and published since 9 November 2025, and on none before. Counted by organisation, not by spelling.
• Most recent award: recorded 3 Nov 2026 (5 days ago).
• Values: value figures cover the 2,943 of 2,990 contracts where a value was published. Values are never added up: framework ceilings and values repeated across lots would make a total meaningless.
• Since 2021: totals count contracts by award date from January 2021, and suppliers by organisation rather than by spelling.

Sources

Contract data on this page is sourced from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder and published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under that licence. Figures cover contract award notices published from January 2021 onward, with comprehensive coverage from 2023. Earlier contracts, and any award not published to Find a Tender or Contracts Finder, will not appear. Figures may lag the source portals. Relative dates (such as “in 6 days”) count from 8 November 2026, when this page was built.