British Film Institute: 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 29 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.
42 awarded tenders, 50 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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 |
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| Digital Analytics Services | 8 Oct 2026 | 8d | £70,000 |
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting17 procedures · 46%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet8 procedures · 22% · 1 open73 Research and development services7 procedures · 19%30 Office and computing machinery5 procedures · 14%32 Radio, television, communication4 procedures · 11%50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 11%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting4 procedures · 11%80 Education and training services3 procedures · 8%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 · 37 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 92% (34 notices)
- Framework 8% (3 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 78% (29 notices)
- Selective 19% (7 notices)
- Limited / restricted 3% (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 29 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 26 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 37 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 24 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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| Soluble Ltd | 4 | 9.5% | 4 | 4 | 7 Jul 2026 |
| Burns Owens Partnership Ltd | 2 | 4.8% | 2 | 2 | 11 Feb 2026 |
| ADDISON LEE LIMITED | 2 | 4.8% | 2 | 2 | 15 Aug 2025 |
| OPTEC SERVICES LTD | 2 | 4.8% | 2 | 2 | 2 Feb 2026 |
| L’immagine Ritrovata S.R.L | 2 | 4.8% | 1 | 2 | 8 Sept 2025 |
| CJP Broadcast Service Solutions Ltd | 2 | 4.8% | 1 | 2 | 9 Sept 2025 |
| DC1 GmbH Media & Object Digitisation | 2 | 4.8% | 1 | 2 | 9 Sept 2025 |
| Memnon Archiving Services | 2 | 4.8% | 1 | 2 | 9 Sept 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 42 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 50 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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| Security Services for BFI Events and Festivals | PACE PRESTIGE SERVICES LTD | 5 Jun 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £500,000 ≈ £250k/yr |
| Spectralogic Support and Maintenance 2026 eAuction | Soluble Ltd | 11 Dec 2025 | 3 yrs | £435,462 ≈ £145k/yr |
| Media Agency Services | AKA Promotions Ltd | — | — | £400,000 † |
| Sight and Sound Subscription Services | Abacus Software Limited | — | — | £254,175 † |
| BFI Southbank Escape Routes Upgrade | MCD Heritage Ltd | 20 Oct 2025 | 4 mo | £215,963 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 52 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Film Scanning Mastering and Restoration ServicesMotion picture and video services | Awarded / complete | 8 Sept 2025 | £1,065,000 |
| Laser Projector - eAuctionCinematographic cameras | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2025 | £48,000 |
| Laser Projector eAuctionCinematographic cameras | Cancelled | 1 Aug 2025 | £48,000 |
| Anti-Racism Induction Training Education and training services | Awarded / complete | 30 Jul 2025 | £40,000 |
| Production and Certification Tracking ServicesMarket and economic research; polling and statistics | Awarded / complete | 24 Jul 2025 | £160,000 |
| BFI London Film Festival Creative RefreshAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 24 Jul 2025 | £70,000 |
| CYNET Subscription eAuctionComputer support services | Awarded / complete | 24 Jul 2025 | £150,000 |
| Rapid Economic Assessment and Data Reviews READRBusiness and management consultancy and related services | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2025 | £175,000 |
| Voice Alarm (VAPA) & Emergency Voice Communications (EVC) Replacement BFI IMAXAlarm systems | Awarded / complete | 3 Jul 2025 | £100,000 |
| Interim Evaluation of National Lottery Skills Clusters FundBusiness development consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 19 Jun 2025 | £35,000 |
| Review of BFI Education and Training ProgrammesBusiness and management consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 12 Jun 2025 | £60,000 |
| Inside the Archive – Exhibition Resources for TouringAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 19 May 2025 | £33,333 |
| CISCO Meraki Switches and Licences Southbank 2025 eAuctionComputer equipment and supplies | Open | 30 Apr 2025 | £40,000 |
| Spectralogic Support and Maintenance - eAuctionComputer equipment and supplies | Awarded / complete | 28 Apr 2025 | £170,000 |
| Media Agency ServicesAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 12 Mar 2025 | £400,000 |
| Sight and Sound Subscription ServicesSubscription services | Awarded / complete | 1 Nov 2024 | — |
| Waste Management ServicesRefuse and waste related services | Awarded / complete | 22 Aug 2024 | — |
| Agency to Sell and Deliver Screen Advertising and Sponsorship for BFI South Bank and BFI IMAX ScreensAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 24 Jan 2023 | — |
| Sight and Sound Print FulfilmentPrinting and distribution services | Awarded / complete | 21 Nov 2022 | — |
| BFI London Film Festival large format print and brandingBespoke printed matter | Awarded / complete | 29 Sept 2022 | — |
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 (£8.6m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 29 award records on 29 procedures (27 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier). 2 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 2 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: 2 of 19 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (3 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-CHC-287780