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St James's Hospital

St James's Hospital has published 143 contract awards on eTenders and TED, naming 165 distinct suppliers. The supplier named most often is P.J. Brennan & Company Limited, on 5 awards with no other supplier. The latest award is dated 11 August 2026.

Name in source
St James's Hospital
Distinct suppliers
165
143
Awards
127 awards with a single named supplier
€202,274,805
Sole-supplier value
€26,301,126 in total across all named suppliers; each supplier's share is not published
16
Shared awards

Buyer profile

Calculated from published award records; nothing is estimated.

St James's Hospital published 143 contract awards in these records between 2013 and 2026.

Where the category is recorded, it buys medical and diagnostic equipment and supplies most often (22% of awards), then medical, surgical and pharmaceutical supplies (15%).

By value, most goes on medical professional services (26% of one-off contract value).

Its tenders drew a median of 3 bids, and 73% of bids came from small and medium-sized firms.

Advertised tenders took a median of 135 days from notice to award.

4 published contract terms end in the 12 months from 12 October 2026.

What they buy

Awarded value by spend category: €216.3M in one-off contracts across 177 awards with a category recorded.

  1. Medical Professional Services€57.2M · 26%10 awards · 6% of awards
  2. Medical and Diagnostic Equipment and Supplies€54.6M · 25%39 awards · 22% of awards
  3. Medical, Surgical and Pharmaceutical Supplies€32.9M · 15%26 awards · 15% of awards
  4. Professional Services€25.9M · 12%8 awards · 5% of awards
  5. ICT and office equipment€15.9M · 7%16 awards · 9% of awards
  6. Facilities management and maintenance€13.5M · 6%17 awards · 10% of awards
  7. Laboratory, Diagnostics and Equipment€11.1M · 5%22 awards · 12% of awards
  8. Fleet and plant€2.7M · 1%9 awards · 5% of awards

Also: Managed Services (€1M), Minor Building Works and Civils (€680.8K), Marketing, Print and Stationery (€440K), Defence (€300K), Utilities (1 award)

Supplies 63%Services 26%Works 11%

Categories are recorded by eTenders. 3 awards have none and are not counted. Values are awarded values, not money paid, and leave out framework agreements, which publish a ceiling rather than a contract value.

How they buy

How each award was competed.

  • One-off tender 92%
  • Framework agreement 6%
  • Direct invitation 1%
  • Call-off from a framework 1%
Procurement figures for this buyer
MeasureThis buyer
Bids per tender (median)Awards that state how many bids were received · 1693
Tenders with a single bidAwards that state how many bids were received · 16920%
Bids from SMEsShare of bids that came from small and medium-sized firms; counted in tenders · 16973%
Awards including an SMEAwards where at least one winner is recorded as an SME · 13968%
Notice to award (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the published award · 177135 days
Time to respond (median)Advertised tenders, from the notice to the submission deadline · 17030 days
Notices cancelledNotices cancelled before any award, of all notices · 3006%
Judged on price aloneTenders evaluated on lowest price rather than price and quality · 484%

Who wins

Distinct suppliers
165
Won by the top five
13%
of 127 awards to a single supplier
New in the last year
8
suppliers with their first award here
Largest supplier
30%
of one-off contract value: CARECHOICE HOLDINGS LIMITED (€60M)
Typical contract
€540K
median of 72 one-off awards with a value
All 165 suppliers

One-off contracts with a single supplier total €202,274,805 in awarded value; the largest single award is 30% of that. 8 framework agreements are not included, as they publish a ceiling. Awarded value is not money paid.

Contract terms ending in the next 12 months

4 awards whose published duration ends between 12 Oct 2026 and a year later.

End dates add the published duration to the award date. Contracts can be extended, ended early or renewed without a new notice, so this is a guide to when work may come back to market, not a schedule.

Suppliers that appear in other public records

File lobbying returns 4

These suppliers are CRO companies that won at least one award from this buyer and also appear in the Register of Lobbying or a Register of Members’ Interests. Appearing in both does not mean an award was influenced. Open each company to see the records and how they were matched.

Sources: the OGP / eTenders open data file, published 7 Aug 2026, and TED contract award notices. Categories, bids, SME and timing figures come from eTenders only. About the sources

Latest awards

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