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Endoscopes contracts

UK public sector · 146 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
146
Last 12 months
Median contract
£61k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£18.2m
138 of 144 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
40
Suppliers
80

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most endoscopes contracts took 58% of them (85 of 146).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 52% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £61k, is 42% below the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
  • East of England had the most contracts: 35, or 24% of the total.

Who buys endoscopes

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust16 contracts
  2. 2Partners Procurement Service (PPS)11 contracts
  3. 3Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust9 contracts
  4. 4University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust8 contracts
  5. 5Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust8 contracts
  6. 6West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust8 contracts
  7. 7Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust7 contracts
  8. 8United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust6 contracts
  9. 9Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust6 contracts
  10. 10QE Facilities Ltd5 contracts

Top endoscopes contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Olympus KeyMed36 contracts
  2. 2Karl Storz35 contracts
  3. 3MEDTRONIC LIMITED8 contracts
  4. 4NHS England6 contracts
  5. 5Stryker UK Limited6 contracts
  6. 6Arthrex Limited5 contracts
  7. 7Richard Wolf UK Limited5 contracts
  8. 8Aquilant4 contracts
  9. 9PENTAX U.K. LIMITED4 contracts
  10. 10Ergea UK and Ireland Limited4 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

22Q4 2025*67Q1 202625Q2 202632Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 137 · Wales 9

East of England35Yorkshire and The Humber26North East12London12South East12South West11East Midlands9Wales9North West4UK-wide or not stated16

What is included

Flexible and rigid endoscopes, laparoscopes, video processors and camera stacks, endoscopic ultrasound and endoscopy accessories, with repair and maintenance.

  • Gastroscopes, colonoscopes and videoscopes
  • Rigid telescopes and laparoscopes
  • Endoscopy and camera stacks
  • EUS and EBUS scopes
  • Bronchoscopes
  • Single-use endoscopes
  • Insufflators and scope guides
  • Endoscope fleet maintenance

What is not included

  • Endoscope washers and drying cabinets (hlt.equip.sterilisers-and-decontamination-equipment)
  • Endoscope reprocessing as a service (hlt.acute.sterile-services-decontamination)
  • Robotic scopes (hlt.equip.operating-theatre-equipment)
  • Outsourced endoscopy lists (hlt.acute.outsourced-mobile-endoscopy)
  • Endoscopy accessories such as biopsy forceps and snares (hlt.cons.minimally-invasive-endoscopy-consumables)

Often bought by the same buyers