Arts Council England: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public bodyLocal authorityNationwide (UK)Manchester

Find a Tender organisation id134535Websiteartscouncil.org.uk ↗

Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months0-100% vs prior 12 months (3)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Contracts ending ≤18 months1none within 6 months
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£411knet · on 1 of 2 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

What they buy
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Last 24 months · 3 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Framework 67% (2 notices)
  • Contract 33% (1 notices)
Procedure route
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Which procedures buyers here use.

Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.

  • Open 100% (3 notices)

Who wins here
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Which suppliers win the most here.

Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.

All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Festivals and Events International Ltdframework/DPS on 1133.3%115 Mar 2025
This Named Company Ltd trading as The Card Network133.3%1119 Aug 2025
First Ascent Group Limited133.3%018 Aug 2024

3 awarded procedures across 3 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£411kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 1 of 2 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
ACE 669 - All In Member Services Hub delivery partnerThis Named Company Ltd trading as The Card Network——£411,464 †

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 1 of 3 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 7 of 7 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
ACE 669 ITT - All In Member Services Hub delivery partnerCustomer servicesAwarded / complete19 Aug 2025£412,000
ACE 614 ITT - Framework Of Financial Advisors For Arts And Culture Repayable FinanceFramework2 lotsAccounting review servicesAwarded / complete5 Mar 2025—
Security Consultants FrameworkFrameworkInvestigation and security servicesCancelled17 Dec 2024—
Development and Delivery of Training to ACE Line ManagersManagement training servicesAwarded / complete8 Aug 2024—
512 ACE ITT Children & Young People National SurveyCustomer survey servicesPlanned29 Mar 2023£1,400,000
501 ACE ITT FTS Total Facilities ManagementBuilding and facilities management servicesPlanned21 Feb 2023£1,300,000
ACE493 ITT Freelance Study of Cultural WorkforceResearch and development services and related consultancy servicesOpen6 Feb 2023£100,000

Search all 7 procedures for this authority →

Data coverage & method
  • Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
  • Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
  • Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£3.2m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 2 award records on 2 procedures (2 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 1 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Contract end dates: 1 of 3 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (2 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-74609GB-FTS-75824

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-134535