Cheshire Constabulary on behalf of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cheshire: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Police & fireNorth West EnglandWinsford

Find a Tender organisation id138430

Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months0-100% vs prior 12 months (3)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Top-3 supplier share19%of 16 awarded procedures · 16 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.

16 awarded tenders, 16 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£1.3mnet · on 4 of 4 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
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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 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

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 · 3 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 100% (3 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.

  • Limited / restricted 67% (2 notices)
  • Open 33% (1 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 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

5indicative · n=10% of lots drew a single bid
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 3 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

12 of 3 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 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

47.6% below estimateindicative · n=1

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
Crown Computing Limited16.3%1231 Jan 2025
Craig Specialist services ltd T/A truesteel16.3%1115 Nov 2024
Alemba Ltd16.3%113 Oct 2024
ORBIS PROTECT LIMITEDframework/DPS on 116.3%021 Jul 2021
Oracle Corporation UK Limited16.3%014 Feb 2021
Allstar Business Solutions Limited16.3%011 Mar 2024
Mersey Internal Audit Agency (MIAA)16.3%0117 Apr 2024
Prevex LTD16.3%0119 Apr 2024

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 16 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 16 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.

£1.3mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 4 of 4 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
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.

£325k middle valuemoderate · n=4Middle half £206k–£441k.
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
Crown Duty Management System - Support and MaintenanceCrown Computing Limited——£441,311 †
AGREEMENT FOR THE SUPPLY, LICENCE SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE OF DMS SOFTWARECrown Computing Limited——£441,311 †
Supply and Installation of Fleet Workshop Cabinets and ToolsCraig Specialist services ltd T/A truesteel——£209,582 †
Alemba Service Manager Software Licenses and Associated Professional Configuration Services and ImplementationAlemba Ltd——£194,658 †

Recent procedures

Latest 21 of 21 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Crown Duty Management System - Support and MaintenanceSoftware support servicesAwarded / complete31 Jan 2025—
Supply and Installation of Fleet Workshop Cabinets and ToolsBuilding internal fittingsAwarded / complete15 Nov 2024—
Alemba Service Manager Software Licenses and Associated Professional Configuration Services and ImplementationSoftware support servicesUnsuccessful3 Oct 2024—
Security - Maintenance, Servicing, Repairs and Small Works ServicesRepair and maintenance services of building installationsAwarded / complete2 Sept 2024—
Youth violence and exploitation intervention serviceE-learning servicesAwarded / complete19 Apr 2024—
Internal Audit ServicesAccounting and auditing servicesAwarded / complete17 Apr 2024—
Fuel CardsAgency fuel cardsAwarded / complete1 Mar 2024—
Forensic Medical & Healthcare ServicesAdministrative healthcare servicesAwarded / complete4 Dec 2023—
Vehicle Collision RepairsMaintenance and repair services related to specific parts of vehiclesAwarded / complete1 Dec 2023—
Grounds Maintenance and GrittingGrounds maintenance servicesAwarded / complete8 Sept 2023—
Forensic Marking ProductsFrameworkEmergency and security equipmentOpen7 Sept 2023£1,000,000
Delivery of a Custody Intervention & CARA Programme for Domestic Abuse PerpetratorsCommunity action programmeAwarded / complete29 Aug 2023—
Custody Healthcare Services - Pre Market EngagementAdministrative healthcare servicesPlanned10 May 2023£6,000,000
Delivery of a 'Drive' Domestic Abuse Perpetrators ProgrammeCommunity action programmeOpen9 Feb 2023£52,000,000
Cheshire Safer Streets AppMiscellaneous software package and computer systemsAwarded / complete3 Feb 2023—
Carbine Weapon System and Warranty ServicesWeaponsAwarded / complete8 Nov 2022—
Provision of a Digital Evidence Management SystemCompliance software packageAwarded / complete11 Oct 2022—
Digital Evidence Management SystemCompliance software packagePlanned5 May 2022£3,000,000
Provision of a Psychological Counselling ServiceCompany health servicesOpen3 Dec 2021£750,000
Specialist Cleaning & Decontamination ServicesFramework4 lotsCleaning and sanitation servicesAwarded / complete1 Jul 2021£1,000,000

Search all 21 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 (£62m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 4 award records on 3 procedures (4 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 4 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 18 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 (1 historical Find a Tender publication identifier)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-4494

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-138430