Consumer Council for Northern Ireland: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·Northern Ireland·Belfast
Official UK PPONPCCW-8342-GYDJ
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 100%73 Research and development services2 procedures · 50%66 Financial and insurance services1 procedures · 25%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 · 4 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.
Contract100%(4 notices)
4 of 4 notices are Contract (100%).
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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.
Open100%(4 notices)
4 of 4 notices are Open (100%).
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 4 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 4 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 3 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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| ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTD | 2 | 40% | 1 | 2 | 8 Oct 2026 |
| Centre for Economics and Business Research | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | 7 Sept 2026 |
| COGNISENSE LTD | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | 14 Sept 2026 |
| The Pierce Partnership Limited trading as The Foundation | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | 3 Aug 2026 |
5 awarded procedures across 4 suppliers: too few to describe concentration.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| ID 6207077 - DFE - The Consumer Council - Market Research | COGNISENSE LTD | 14 Sept 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 3.1 yrs | £2,000,000 ≈ £2.0m/yr |
| DFE - The Consumer Council - Advertising and Communication Services | ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTD | 8 Oct 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £900,000 ≈ £900k/yr |
| ID 6148332 - DFE - Consumer Council - Print and Design Management Services | The Pierce Partnership Limited trading as The Foundation | 3 Aug 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £700,000 ≈ £350k/yr |
| ID 6317199 - DfE - Consumer Council NI Household Expenditure Tracker Data 2026 - 2028 | Centre for Economics and Business Research | 7 Sept 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £123,900 ≈ £124k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Published end dates only · 3 of 4 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| ID 6317199 - DfE - Consumer Council NI Household Expenditure Tracker Data 2026 - 2028 | Centre for Economics and Business Research | 22 Sept 2027 | £123,900 |
| ID 6207077 - DFE - The Consumer Council - Market Research | COGNISENSE LTD | 26 Oct 2027 | £2,000,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 5 of 5 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| DFE - The Consumer Council - Advertising and Communication ServicesAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 8 Oct 2026 | £900,000 |
| ID 6207077 - DFE - The Consumer Council - Market ResearchDesign and execution of research and development | Awarded / complete | 2 Oct 2026 | £2,000,000 |
| ID 6317199 - DFE - Consumer Council - NI HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE TRACKEREconomic research services | Awarded / complete | 28 Sept 2026 | £150,000 |
| ID 6148332 - DFE - Consumer Council - Print and Design Management ServicesGraphic design services | Awarded / complete | 18 Aug 2026 | £700,000 |
| ID 4423666 - DfE - Consumer Council - Financial Services advertisingAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 3 Feb 2023 | £150,000 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- 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. 3 of 4 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.