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Surgical robots contracts

UK public sector · 304 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
304
Last 12 months
Median contract
£55k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£54.3m
289 of 301 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
68
Suppliers
141

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most surgical robots contracts took 27% of them (82 of 304).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 54% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £55k, is 48% below the median across healthcare contracts (£106k).
  • East of England had the most contracts: 67, or 22% of the total.

Who buys surgical robots

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

  1. 1Partners Procurement Service (PPS)22 contracts
  2. 2Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust20 contracts
  3. 3NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership18 contracts
  4. 4Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust16 contracts
  5. 5Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust15 contracts
  6. 6United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust15 contracts
  7. 7East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust15 contracts
  8. 8University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust12 contracts
  9. 9Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust12 contracts
  10. 10West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust10 contracts

Top surgical robots contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Stryker UK Limited22 contracts
  2. 2Boston Scientific22 contracts
  3. 3MEDTRONIC LIMITED19 contracts
  4. 4Starkstrom11 contracts
  5. 5Getinge10 contracts
  6. 6Intuitive Surgical9 contracts
  7. 7Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited9 contracts
  8. 8Carl Zeiss8 contracts
  9. 9Hillrom8 contracts
  10. 10Erbe Medical8 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

58Q4 2025*119Q1 202670Q2 202655Q3 20262Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 265 · Wales 26 · Northern Ireland 9 · Scotland 4

East of England67Yorkshire and The Humber49London29East Midlands28Wales25North West18South East18North East16South West15West Midlands10Northern Ireland9Scotland4UK-wide or not stated16

What is included

Capital equipment for operating theatres and procedures: operating tables, surgical lights, surgical microscopes and power tools, robotic surgery and navigation systems with their dedicated instruments, and electrosurgical, laser, ablation and lithotripsy systems with their consumables and maintenance.

  • Operating tables and accessories
  • Surgical lights
  • Surgical microscopes
  • Orthopaedic and ENT power tools and drills
  • Organ perfusion machines
  • Robotic surgery systems
  • Robot-specific instruments, scopes, accessories and consumables
  • Robot maintenance contracts
  • Neurosurgical navigation and stereotactic systems
  • CT-guided ablation navigation
  • Electrosurgical units and diathermy
  • Surgical smoke evacuation
  • RFA generators
  • Surgical lasers
  • Endometrial ablation and uterine tissue removal systems
  • Lithotripters
  • Ultrasonic cement removal systems

What is not included

  • Laparoscopic stacks (hlt.equip.endoscopy-equipment)
  • Surgical instruments and retractors (hlt.cons.surgical-instruments)
  • Single-use laparoscopic and energy consumables bought on their own (hlt.cons.minimally-invasive-endoscopy-consumables)
  • Radiotherapy (hlt.equip.radiotherapy-equipment)
  • Theatre ventilation and pendant installation works (another industry: construction-trades)
  • Theatre management software (it.lob.theatre-management-and-scheduling)