BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation): Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 15 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
15 awarded tenders, 28 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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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.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local Democracy Reporting Platform Service | 26 Oct 2026 | 26d | £1,300,000 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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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
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet22 procedures · 36% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems9 procedures · 15%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting8 procedures · 13%32 Radio, television, communication5 procedures · 8%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting5 procedures · 8%50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 5%64 Postal and telecommunications services3 procedures · 5%45 Construction work2 procedures · 3%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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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 · 61 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
- Contract 93% (57 notices)
- Framework 7% (4 notices)
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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.
- Route not published 44% (27 notices)
- Open 33% (20 notices)
- Selective 11% (7 notices)
- Direct award 10% (6 notices)
- Limited / restricted 2% (1 notices)
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 15 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 19 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 62 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 8 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
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.
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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
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| IBM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED | 1 | 6.7% | 1 | 2 | 5 Aug 2026 |
| BaxterStorey Limited | 1 | 6.7% | 1 | 1 | 9 Jun 2026 |
| Water Plus Limited | 1 | 6.7% | 1 | 1 | 7 Feb 2025 |
| Sunbelt Rentals Ltd | 1 | 6.7% | 1 | 1 | 24 Feb 2026 |
| Firefly Audio Visual Solutions Limited | 1 | 6.7% | 1 | 1 | 15 Jul 2025 |
| Perform Content Ltd | 1 | 6.7% | 1 | 1 | 17 Jun 2025 |
| Computacenter (UK) Ltd | 1 | 6.7% | 1 | 1 | 4 Jun 2026 |
| TMI Systems Limited | 1 | 6.7% | 1 | 1 | 23 Jan 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 20% of 15 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 28 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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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.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe 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. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Live Music Event Producer R1BW & R2itP | Far and Beyond Events Ltd | 12 Sept 2025 | 3.1 yrs · up to 5.1 yrs | £37,500,000 ≈ £12m/yr |
| PROC 2023 12 AC EAST BANK | Heydon & Carr Ltd | 11 Aug 2026 | 1.3 yrs | £18,500,000 ≈ £14m/yr |
| BBC Sport Data Feed | Perform Content Ltd | 17 Jun 2025 | 4 yrs | £4,500,000 ≈ £1.1m/yr |
| BBC Catering Services | BaxterStorey Limited | 9 Jun 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £4,320,000 ≈ £1.4m/yr |
| Social Media Assets - Standard Provision | Cold Glass Production Ltd | 12 Feb 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £3,825,000 ≈ £3.8m/yr |
Contracts endingi
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.
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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 · 10 of 12 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Social Media Assets - Standard Provision | Cold Glass Production Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £3,825,000 |
| Social Media Assets - Campaigns and Events | Little Dot Studios Ltd | 31 Mar 2027 | £400,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 63 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Digbeth (Tea Factory) - FIT OUTBuilding alteration work | Awarded / complete | 30 Oct 2025 | £10,400,000 |
| Live Music Event Producer R1BW & R2itPCultural event organisation services | Awarded / complete | 1 Oct 2025 | £37,500,000 |
| Post Production Services RFI 2025Advertising film production | Planning | 26 Sept 2025 | — |
| Audio Edit, Media Asset Management and Radio Playout Product - Request for InformationRepair and maintenance services of audio equipment | Planning | 25 Sept 2025 | — |
| BBC Proms Media SellingAdvertising services | Awarded / complete | 15 Sept 2025 | £360,000 |
| BBC | Fit for the Future - Market InsightsAdministrative services for business operations | Planning | 9 Sept 2025 | — |
| Salford Sport Multiviewer Replacement projectMultimedia equipment | Planning | 11 Aug 2025 | — |
| BBC Sport Data Feed | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2025 | — |
| BBC Bitesize Schools Tour Audio Visual Equipment and Crew HireTelevision and audio-visual equipment | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2025 | £346,000 |
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 (£1.4bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 16 award records on 14 procedures (15 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 2 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 10 of 12 published contracts carry a period end; 2 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.
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