Medical equipment and pharmaceuticals contracts expiring in West Midlands: 64 worth £7.1m

64 medical equipment and pharmaceuticals contracts in West Midlands carry a published end date, worth £7.1m between them. They are held across 15 buyers, and the typical one is worth £49k.

50 of them expire within twelve months, and 28 are already inside the window where the buyer would normally be shaping the replacement. That is 78% of this market back in play inside a year.

61 different suppliers hold the work, and the three largest hold 9% of it. That is a fragmented market, which usually means no single relationship is decisive and a smaller supplier can win on merit.

The most active buyers are Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust (23), University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (14), The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (6).

The contracts here are most often held by Joint Operations Ltd (2), Hospital Innovations Ltd (2), Roche Diagnostics Ltd (2).