British Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: Royal Charter CompanyGOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public bodyLocal authorityGreater LondonLondon

Official UK PPONPHTN-1551-GCQHWebsitebritishcouncil.org ↗

Open now13next deadline 2 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months335+128% vs prior 12 months (147)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Typical bids per lot47.3% single-bid · 55 bid reports
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share4%of 214 awarded procedures · 368 suppliers
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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.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months8018 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£93mnet · on 74 of 204 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 91%
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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

All 13 open notices for this authority →

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

73 Research and development services29 procedures · 6% · 1 open
66 Financial and insurance services14 procedures · 3% · 1 open

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 · 482 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.

  • Contract 90% (432 notices)
  • Framework 9% (44 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 1% (6 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 73% (354 notices)
  • Route not published 12% (58 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 7% (36 notices)
  • Selective 4% (21 notices)
  • Direct award 3% (13 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4robust · n=557.3% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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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 79 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

34 daysrobust · n=79
Notice amendments
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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.

Last 24 months.

0175 of 482 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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.

Last 24 months.

1.9% below estimaterobust · n=26

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
Basal Capital, S. de R.L. de C.V.31.4%336 Jan 2026
Mobile Testing Solutions Ltdframework/DPS on 231.4%11115 Apr 2026
Guru Online Hong Kong Limited20.9%2217 Jun 2026
Beijing Foreign Enterprise Human Resources Service Co., Ltd.20.9%226 Mar 2026
Cvent Europe, Ltd.20.9%2227 Aug 2026
Fonema Colectivo_Diego Olavarria20.9%2227 Jan 2026
Homeland LLC20.9%2231 Jul 2026
REHABICEN, SA20.9%2230 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.

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.

£93mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 74 of 204 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 91%; a further 53 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£154m inc. VAT, kept apart).
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£75k middle valuerobust · n=74Middle half £42k–£168k; 3 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
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
National Commercial Exam Venues 2026Topaz Events Complex17 Mar 20263 yrs · up to 4 yrs£50,592,000
≈ £17m/yr
The ECHO2 Programme: Network Integration Services ProcurementFujitsu Services Ltd——£27,300,000 †
2024 - Chevening and Marshall Scholarship ProgrammesDiversity Travel——£3,000,000 †
Agreement for the purchase of FM & Maintenance ServicesKrystal Integrated Services Limited23 Apr 20263 yrs£1,900,000
≈ £633k/yr
UK_260 - English and School Education Learning Management SystemECOM SCOTLAND LIMITED——£1,300,000 †

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 · 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

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Internet Services Provider for computer Labs in RiyadhInternet servicesOpen11 Sept 2026£80,000
Dynamic Drupal 10 FrameworkFramework4 lotsSoftware programming and consultancy servicesAwarded / complete10 Sept 2026£637,500
ON45EDU52026 - Videography Services for ThailandMotion picture and video servicesAwarded / complete10 Sept 2026£51,000
Philippine e-Invoicing Middleware Solution for BIR Integration and EIS ComplianceComputer-related professional servicesOpen10 Sept 2026£53,000
AM_1461 - UK-Based Teacher Training Programme for Colombian ELT TeachersEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete9 Sept 2026£64,706
RFP for Thailand Tax Outsourcing UC42BSS82026Corporate finance and venture capital servicesOpen8 Sept 2026£48,000
Events Production and Management Services - QatarEvent servicesAwarded / complete7 Sept 2026£104,167
AM_1452 SSJAwarded / complete4 Sept 2026—
AM_874 Content Agency Services for AmericasFrameworkAwarded / complete3 Sept 2026—
RFP - GT61EES82026 - Assessment Partner for EDGE Punjab Project with UNICEFTechnical testing servicesOpen3 Sept 2026£50,000
Purchase of Lease Accounting System for British Council OperationCompliance software development servicesAwarded / complete2 Sept 2026£530,000
Procurement of Laptops and Equipment for the Exams Team - UAEComputer equipment and suppliesOpen1 Sept 2026£51,000
English Score Test Code Provider Awarded / complete1 Sept 2026—
Invitation to Tender (ITT)-For: Transport and confidential material movement services for British Council-BangladeshHire of goods-transport vehicles with driverAwarded / complete1 Sept 2026£1,000,000
EU_1499 - Training services for Education projects for British CouncilEducation and training servicesOpen28 Aug 2026£175,000
Vulnerability Intelligence Subscription Service.Awarded / complete28 Aug 2026—
Global Event Management PlatformAwarded / complete27 Aug 2026—
PEACEPLUS - Education and training providers for the delivery of the Media CONNECT training courseAdult and other education servicesOpen27 Aug 2026€57,500
UK_1498- Arts Content AgencyAdvertising and marketing servicesOpen27 Aug 2026£207,000
Creative DNA Twende Soko 2.0Business analysis consultancy servicesOpen26 Aug 2026£80,000

Search all 637 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 (£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.

GB-CHC-209131GB-CHC-British Council GB-CHC-SC037733GB-COH-209131GB-COH-RC000060GB-FTS-100251GB-FTS-10190GB-FTS-104043GB-FTS-105372GB-FTS-105466GB-FTS-109494GB-FTS-109663GB-FTS-110262GB-FTS-113225GB-FTS-113390GB-FTS-115005GB-FTS-121671GB-FTS-122355GB-FTS-122810GB-FTS-12453GB-FTS-126597GB-FTS-127571GB-FTS-127881GB-FTS-12872

+86 further identifiers not listed here.

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PHTN-1551-GCQH