Smarter NHS Decisions Backed by Spend Data
Gain strategic insight into trust-level buyer behaviour and supplier performance—refine your strategy, shape your bids, and increase your impact.
What Is Healthcare Spend Analysis?
Spend Analysis is HCI’s intelligent data engine for exploring NHS procurement. It enables you to investigate public healthcare spending patterns by trust, region, category, supplier, and value—powered by historic and real-time data.
Spend Analysis is HCI’s intelligent data engine for exploring NHS procurement. It enables you to investigate public healthcare spending patterns by trust, region, category, supplier, and value—powered by historic and real-time data.
Key Features
Feature |
Description |
---|---|
NHS Business Relationship Score (BRS) |
Understand the strength of relationships between trusts and incumbent suppliers. (Pro only) |
Live NHS notices and award tracking |
Monitor active tenders and contract awards to anticipate renewal opportunities. |
Timeline analysis |
Spot how trust spend has shifted across years—by product, service, or category. |
Buyer vs buyer / supplier vs supplier |
Compare NHS trust behaviours or supplier performance head-to-head. |
Manual entity merging |
Consolidate NHS bodies or group suppliers for clearer strategic views. |
Benefits for Healthcare Suppliers
Benefit |
Value |
---|---|
Target the right NHS buyers |
Learn which trusts align with your services and identify new entry points. |
Benchmark competitors |
Track how other suppliers are winning—and where you’re gaining or losing ground. |
Spot contract shifts |
Detect when spending patterns indicate upcoming tenders or trust strategy changes. |
Influence early |
Use BRS to reach out before the tender and build strategic relationships. |
Make confident bid/no-bid decisions |
Focus on buyers where your strengths align with spend trends. |
Use Cases by Healthcare Persona
Strategic Sales Teams:
Identify low-relationship, high-spend NHS buyers where you can disrupt the incumbent dynamic.
Bid Managers:
Forecast re-tenders, analyse award values, and build stronger early engagement strategies.
Marketing and Commercial Directors:
Shape messaging and pricing using spend indicators, contract values, and buyer segmentation.
Market Analysts:
Explore NHS trust procurement across multiple years and categories for deeper market trend insights.
Spend Analysis – Core vs Pro Comparison
Feature |
Core |
Pro |
---|---|---|
Business Relationship Score (BRS) |
Not included |
Full insight |
Live notices and awards |
Partial access |
Full access |
Timeline & competitor comparisons |
Not included |
Available |
NHS entity merging |
Not included |
Available |
Renewal tracking |
Included |
Included |
Use Spend Analysis to find better-aligned buyers, act earlier, and shape a smarter procurement strategy across NHS and public healthcare.