Industry · UK public sector
Bid for NHS and integrated care contracts without slowing your delivery team
NHS trusts, integrated care boards and public health bodies buy from SMBs every week. The bid process is the bottleneck. Bidwell removes it.
30 min
draft on a 40-question NHS PQQ
3x
more trust bids per commercial lead
100%
of FTS healthcare notices monitored
The shape of healthcare suppliers bidding
What makes this industry hard to bid in
The NHS spends roughly £30 billion a year buying from third-party suppliers, and a meaningful share of that flows through SMBs in medical devices, healthcare technology, clinical workforce, lab consumables, and digital health. The bidding process, though, is heavy: NHS-specific clauses, information governance and DSPT alignment, MHRA evidence for devices, social value scoring against trust priorities, and clinical safety standards like DCB 0129 and DCB 0160 where relevant. Most healthcare SMBs have a small commercial team that has to choose between bidding well and delivering the contract they just won. Bidwell takes the bidding workload off the critical path. It watches every NHS, integrated care board and public health notice on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, scores the fit against your past wins and clinical scope, and drafts a tailored response in well under an hour using your existing IG and clinical evidence. Your commercial lead reviews and submits, and the delivery team stays on the floor.
What sucks today
- DSPT and IG questions answered slightly differently for every trust
- MHRA, ISO 13485 and clinical safety evidence scattered across drives
- ICB and trust priorities require buyer-specific tailoring most teams skip
- Workforce framework call-offs close in days, not weeks
What Bidwell does about it
- Trust, ICB and CCG-equivalent notices delivered same-day
- Clinical and IG evidence reused consistently across every bid
- Buyer-specific social value angle drafted from each trust's strategic priorities
- Workforce and locum framework call-offs caught in time to respond properly
Live tender feed
Recent healthcare suppliers awards in the UK
Pulled live from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, filtered to healthcare suppliers-relevant CPV codes.
Outpatient Pharmacy Services
ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · Awarded to The Clatterbridge Pharmacy Ltd on 1 Jun 2026
£16.8m
Medtronic - Radio frequency ablation equipment and consumables
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded to Medtronic Limited on 31 May 2026
Undisclosed
“Follow Me” Project roll out - Hepatitis C Trust
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board · Awarded to The Hepatitis C Trust on 31 May 2026
£300k
PSR Direct Award C - Coram Voice advocacy
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded to Coram on 31 May 2026
£139k
MRI Scanning for Neurology
The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Awarded to The Newcastle Clinic on 31 May 2026
Undisclosed
Kings Lynn Wound Care - Saturday Clinic
East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust · Awarded to St James Medical Practice on 28 May 2026
£40k
Learning Disabilities and Autism Emergency Response Team for Children and young people
BLACK COUNTRY HEALTHCARE NHS FOUNDATION TRUST · Awarded to Leaf Complex Care Ltd on 28 May 2026
£100k
Histopathology reporting
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board · Awarded to DIAGNEXIA UK LIMITED on 27 May 2026
£971k
See more in the buyer index or the sector index.
Frameworks that route this work
Where healthcare suppliers buyers find suppliers
RM1557.13
G-Cloud 13
G-Cloud 13 is the UK government framework for cloud hosting, software and support. Buyers in central government, the NHS, councils and the wider public sector use it to buy cloud services through the Digital Marketplace without running a full tender.
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RM6100
RM6100 Technology Services 3
RM6100 is the principal UK government framework for IT and digital services, from small advisory engagements through to multi-year managed service contracts. The third version of Technology Services, it routes most enterprise IT spend in central government and the wider public sector.
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Who runs the bids in healthcare suppliers
Most of our healthcare suppliers customers are sme owners.
Frequently asked
Bidwell vs Healthcare Suppliers, in short
It drafts from your stored DSPT submissions, ISO 13485 evidence, clinical safety case templates and past responses. The drafts mirror what you have actually done, ready for clinical and information governance leads to confirm.
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