British Library: 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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
16 awarded tenders, 25 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.
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, internet4 procedures · 67%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 17%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedures · 17%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 · 6 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 100% (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 67% (4 notices)
- Selective 33% (2 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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 6 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 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| University of London | 2 | 12.5% | 0 | 2 | 5 Apr 2022 |
| Tessitura Network | 2 | 12.5% | 0 | 2 | 4 Jul 2022 |
| BG Infotech Ltd | 1 | 6.3% | 1 | 1 | 11 Dec 2024 |
| Ze Global | 1 | 6.3% | 1 | 1 | 11 Dec 2024 |
| Q42 | 1 | 6.3% | 1 | 1 | 25 Nov 2024 |
| Anything Is Possible Media Limited | 1 | 6.3% | 0 | 2 | 8 Apr 2024 |
| DK Agencies | 1 | 6.3% | 0 | 1 | 19 Dec 2023 |
| AKA UK | 1 | 6.3% | 0 | 1 | 8 Apr 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 31% of 16 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 25 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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| British Library Security Systems Consultant | BG Infotech Ltd | — | — | £648,776 † |
| British Library Web Foundations Project | Q42 | — | — | £396,908 † |
| 002092 Security Systems Maintenance | Ze Global | — | — | £237,174 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 42 of 42 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| 002511 Non -Print Legal Deposit Publisher (NPLD) PortalIT services: consulting | Open | 20 Feb 2025 | £350,000 |
| 002534 Living Knowledge Network exhibitionFair and exhibition organisation services | Cancelled | 16 Jan 2025 | £20,000 |
| 002505 Shared Repository ServiceIT services: consulting | Open | 20 Dec 2024 | £415,000 |
| 002092 Security Systems MaintenanceRepair and maintenance services of video equipment | Awarded / complete | 11 Dec 2024 | — |
| British Library Security Systems ConsultantSystems consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 11 Dec 2024 | — |
| 002434 British Library Web Foundations ProjectWeb page editing software development services | Awarded / complete | 25 Nov 2024 | — |
| British Library Estates Maintenance Services - Market EngagementBuilding and facilities management services | Planned | 10 Sept 2024 | £49,000,000 |
| 002388 Audio Visual Freelance Technician SupplierEvent services | Open | 6 Sept 2024 | £300,000 |
| British Library Electronic Key Management System UpgradeSecurity equipment | Open | 8 Aug 2024 | £225,000 |
| 002380 British Library What's On WebsiteComputer-aided design (CAD) software development services | Open | 2 Jul 2024 | £120,000 |
| 002350 British Library Audience Map and Segmentation Development ProjectMarket research services | Awarded / complete | 14 May 2024 | — |
| British Library Security Systems ConsultantSystems consultancy services | Open | 1 May 2024 | £625,000 |
| 002162 Digital Advertising and Specialist Marketing Support FrameworkAdvertising campaign services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2024 | £4,000,000 |
| Netcat 002 - Ethos RecordsPrinted books | Awarded / complete | 19 Dec 2023 | — |
| British Library Boston Spa Building 33 TotesPlastic products | Open | 15 Dec 2023 | £3,000,000 |
| Cyber Security SupportTechnical support services | Awarded / complete | 5 Dec 2023 | — |
| 01999 Netcat 001 (English Language Monographs)Printed books | Open | 13 Sept 2023 | £140,000 |
| 002189 British Library Technology Service PartnerIT services: consulting | Open | 10 Aug 2023 | £1,400,000 |
| 002214 RFI Consolidated Broadcast and TV Capture ServiceTelevision and radio broadcast transmission services | Planned | 8 Aug 2023 | £10,000 |
| 002182 British Library Print Contract (1) Litho & Digital (2) Large-format PrintingBespoke printed matter | Open | 17 Jul 2023 | £450,000 |
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 (£66m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 3 award records on 3 procedures (3 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 3 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: 0 of 17 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 (13 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-FTS-23277