British Library: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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21 awarded tenders, 29 different suppliers.
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 procedures · 100%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 67%48 Software package and information systems1 procedure · 33%80 Education and training services1 procedure · 33%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 3 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract100%(3 notices)
3 of 3 notices are Contract (100%).
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Open100%(3 notices)
3 of 3 notices are Open (100%).
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Based on 3 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
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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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| BG Infotech Ltd | 2 | 9.5% | 1 | 2 | 27 May 2024 |
| Anything Is Possible Media Limited | 2 | 9.5% | 0 | 3 | 30 Nov 2023 |
| University of London | 2 | 9.5% | 0 | 3 | 3 Jul 2020 |
| Tessitura Network | 2 | 9.5% | 0 | 3 | 1 Jul 2022 |
| Bookends Bindery | 2 | 9.5% | 0 | 2 | 24 Jan 2022 |
| Downie Allison Downie Ltd | 2 | 9.5% | 0 | 2 | 24 Jan 2022 |
| RDW Book and Paper Conservation Limited | 2 | 9.5% | 0 | 2 | 24 Jan 2022 |
| Spink and Thackray Ltd | 2 | 9.5% | 0 | 2 | 24 Jan 2022 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 29% of 21 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 29 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
Contracts endingi
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28 of 33 contracts carry an end date, 10 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 11 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 42 of 40 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| RFI-Geospatial Data Application and Services for the UK Legal Deposit LibrariesMiscellaneous software development services and computer systems | Planned | 7 Jul 2023 | £350,000 |
| 002098 SECURITY GUARDING (SECURITY AND SAFETY OPERATIONS)Security services | Awarded / complete | 15 Jun 2023 | £7,000,000 |
| RFI - British Library Wiki ReplacementInformation systems and servers | Planned | 23 May 2023 | — |
| British Library Catering Service DeliveryCatering services | Open | 9 May 2023 | £10,000,000 |
| Supply of Books and Standing Orders Published in Poland to the British LibraryPrinted books | Awarded / complete | 27 Apr 2023 | £122,000 |
| 001998 Cataloguing In Publication Programme (CIP)Printed books | Awarded / complete | 27 Apr 2023 | £440,000 |
| Publication Distribution ServiceStorage and retrieval services | Open | 14 Nov 2022 | £600,000 |
| RFI - British Library AGV/AMR SolutionLibrary automation equipment | Planned | 22 Aug 2022 | £340,000 |
| International Dunhuang Project Website RedevelopmentWorld wide web (www) site design services | Awarded / complete | 15 Aug 2022 | £150,000 |
| Commercial Banking ServicesBanking services | Planned | 15 Aug 2022 | — |
| British Library Ticketing and Customer Journey SolutionBusiness services: law | Awarded / complete | 4 Jul 2022 | — |
| British Library Ticketing and Customer Journey SolutionBusiness services: law | Awarded / complete | 4 Jul 2022 | — |
| Research RespositoryIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 5 Apr 2022 | — |
| Research RespositoryIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 5 Apr 2022 | — |
| British Library Conservation, Bindery & Enclosures FrameworkBookbinding services | Awarded / complete | 5 Apr 2022 | £1,000,000 |
| British Library Conservation, Bindery & Enclosures FrameworkBookbinding services | Not published | 18 Jan 2022 | — |
| French Speaking Countries Monographs and Standing OrdersPrinted books | Open | 14 Dec 2021 | £88,000 |
| Western European Language BooksPrinted books | Open | 14 Dec 2021 | £579,000 |
| British Library Portals Future Technical SolutionIT services: consulting | Planned | 16 Nov 2021 | — |
| Development of the name and brand for a single digital presence for UK librariesMarketing management consultancy services | Open | 23 Jul 2021 | £100,000 |
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Contracts Finder adds 58 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.
About this data
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 28 of 33 published contracts have an end date; 10 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.