British Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public body·Local authority·Greater London·London
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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 55 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.
214 awarded tenders, 368 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
13 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK_1569 Complement or competition - UK TNE versus student mobility | 2 Oct 2026 | 2d | £50,000 |
| Provision of Photography and Videography Services for British Council South Africa | 10 Oct 2026 | 10d | £368,000 |
| Pavilion Management and Exhibition Production: British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale | 12 Oct 2026 | 12d | €2,700,000 |
| Exam venues centres on the Isle of Man | 12 Oct 2026 | 12d | £51,000 |
| EU_1432 ITT Poland Security Services | 16 Oct 2026 | 16d | £238,591 |
| UK_1527 Corporate and Fine Art Insurance Brokerage Services | 19 Oct 2026 | 19d | £8,080,000 |
| Security Guarding Services for Vietnam Hanoi & Hoi Chi Min | 19 Oct 2026 | 19d | £250,000 |
| Facilities Management Services for British Council Thailand | 19 Oct 2026 | 19d | THB 22,275,111 |
| Ground Transportation Framework for UK | 20 Oct 2026 | 20d | £640,000 |
| UK 777 IT Onsite Operations and Infrastructure supporting services | 2 Nov 2026 | 33d | £1,233,333 |
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting164 procedures · 34% · 6 open80 Education and training services44 procedures · 9%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet43 procedures · 9% · 1 open73 Research and development services29 procedures · 6% · 1 open55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services24 procedures · 5% · 1 open63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel18 procedures · 4% · 1 open66 Financial and insurance services14 procedures · 3% · 1 open60 Transport services (except waste transport)10 procedures · 2% · 1 openHow 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 · 482 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 90% (432 notices)
- Framework 9% (44 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 1% (6 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.
- Open 73% (354 notices)
- Route not published 12% (58 notices)
- Limited / restricted 7% (36 notices)
- Selective 4% (21 notices)
- Direct award 3% (13 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 55 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 78 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 482 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 26 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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| Basal Capital, S. de R.L. de C.V. | 3 | 1.4% | 3 | 3 | 6 Jan 2026 |
| Mobile Testing Solutions Ltd | 3 | 1.4% | 1 | 11 | 15 Apr 2026 |
| Guru Online Hong Kong Limited | 2 | 0.9% | 2 | 2 | 17 Jun 2026 |
| Beijing Foreign Enterprise Human Resources Service Co., Ltd. | 2 | 0.9% | 2 | 2 | 6 Mar 2026 |
| Cvent Europe, Ltd. | 2 | 0.9% | 2 | 2 | 27 Aug 2026 |
| Fonema Colectivo_Diego Olavarria | 2 | 0.9% | 2 | 2 | 27 Jan 2026 |
| Homeland LLC | 2 | 0.9% | 2 | 2 | 31 Jul 2026 |
| REHABICEN, SA | 2 | 0.9% | 2 | 2 | 30 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 4% of 214 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 368 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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| National Commercial Exam Venues 2026 | Topaz Events Complex | 17 Mar 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £50,592,000 ≈ £17m/yr |
| The ECHO2 Programme: Network Integration Services Procurement | Fujitsu Services Ltd | — | — | £27,300,000 † |
| 2024 - Chevening and Marshall Scholarship Programmes | Diversity Travel | — | — | £3,000,000 † |
| Agreement for the purchase of FM & Maintenance Services | Krystal Integrated Services Limited | 23 Apr 2026 | 3 yrs | £1,900,000 ≈ £633k/yr |
| UK_260 - English and School Education Learning Management System | ECOM SCOTLAND LIMITED | — | — | £1,300,000 † |
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 · 174 of 265 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 80 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 637 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£281m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 226 award records on 184 procedures (204 to a single canonical supplier, 18 multi-supplier, 4 with no supplier published). 56 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 53 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- 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: 174 of 265 published contracts carry a period end; 80 end within 18 months, 18 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (110 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
+86 further identifiers not listed here.
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