Department for Business & Trade: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·Greater London·London
Official UK PPONPZZJ-6312-QTTD
Open now0no live noticesNotices, last 12 months179+111% vs prior 12 months (85)Typical bids per notice1.550% single-bid · 14 bid reportsTop-3 supplier share5%of 252 awarded procedures · 258 suppliersContracts ending ≤18 months8141 within 6 monthsPublished award value, 24m£181mnet · on 178 of 285 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 86%
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting16 procedures · 6%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet15 procedures · 6%71 Architectural, construction, engineering8 procedures · 3%73 Research and development services5 procedures · 2%48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 2%80 Education and training services2 procedures · 1%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting2 procedures · 1%98 Other community, social and personal services2 procedures · 1%How they buy
Last 24 months · 264 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Contract 98% (260 notices)
- Framework 1% (3 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 0% (1 notices)
Procedure route
- Direct award 80% (212 notices)
- Selective 6% (16 notices)
- Route not published 6% (15 notices)
- Open 4% (11 notices)
- Limited / restricted 4% (10 notices)
Typical bids per notice1.5robust · n=14Median of published bid counts per lot on contested notices · 50% of lots drew a single bid. Direct awards are left out; framework and DPS lots are included.
Deadline → award98 daysmoderate · n=3Median days from submission deadline to first award notice.
Notice amendments0Median amendments per notice · 29 of 264 notices amended.
Award vs estimate0.2% below estimatemoderate · n=4Median (estimate − award) / estimate on single-supplier GBP pairs per lot, same VAT basis on both sides; vehicles excluded. Negative = awarded above estimate.
Who wins here
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERNST & YOUNG LLP | 5 | 2% | 5 | 5 | 26 Aug 2026 |
| Post Office Limited | 4 | 1.6% | 3 | 5 | 19 May 2026 |
| Ipsos | 3 | 1.2% | 3 | 5 | 18 Sept 2026 |
| I.F.F. Research Ltd | 3 | 1.2% | 3 | 4 | 18 Sept 2026 |
| Clarion Events LIMITED | 3 | 1.2% | 3 | 3 | 21 Aug 2025 |
| United Kingdom Interactive Entertainment Ltd | 3 | 1.2% | 3 | 3 | 13 Aug 2026 |
| MOODY'S ANALYTICS UK LIMITED | 3 | 1.2% | 3 | 3 | 29 Jun 2026 |
| SGS United Kingdom Limited | 3 | 1.2% | 2 | 7 | 20 Mar 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 5% of 252 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 258 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
Published award value (24m)£181mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 178 of 285 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 86%. Not spend and not a budget: notices sometimes republish a framework total or a mis-scaled figure — the largest rows are listed below so you can check.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)£55k medianrobust · n=178Middle half £25k–£102k; 52 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Media Strategy, Planning and Buying | WPP plc | 5 Jun 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £80,000,000 ≈ £27m/yr |
| 63000000 | OMD GROUP LIMITED | — | 4.1 yrs | £63,000,000 † ≈ £15m/yr |
| Strategic Sites Accelerator | CBRE Limited | 14 Apr 2026 | 3 yrs | £5,000,000 ≈ £1.7m/yr |
| CAPTURE Document Disclosure | Post Office Limited | — | 4.9 yrs | £4,489,365 † ≈ £913k/yr |
| Marketing Creative Services - Domestic | ACCENTURE (UK) LIMITED | — | 2.9 yrs | £4,000,000 † ≈ £1.4m/yr |
Contracts ending
Published end dates only · 234 of 309 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo Game Show Trade Mission 2026 | United Kingdom Interactive Entertainment Ltd | 21 Sept 2026 | £35,000 |
| DBT Europe All Staff Conference 2026 Venue | Nieuwe Kerk The Hague (NKDH BV) | 23 Sept 2026 | £60,000 |
| InnoTrans 2026 | Railway Industry Association | 25 Sept 2026 | £17,000 |
| DBT pavilion at Bett Asia Education Event 2026 | Hyve UK Events Limited | 25 Sept 2026 | £23,000 |
| CR_5505 - Resourcing and governance of HMG WTO activity | CMC PARTNERSHIP CONSULTANCY LTD | 25 Sept 2026 | £17,250 |
| Support Service Worker for DBT Employee Notice | Nikolsky Healthcare | 30 Sept 2026 | £75,000 |
| IISS Military Balance Plus | The International Institute for Strategic Studies | 30 Sept 2026 | £11,000 |
| Finance & Investment Decisions Survey 2025 (Analysis) | Oxford Brookes University | 30 Sept 2026 | £50,000 |
| Production Finance Market (PFM) and Upstream 2026 | Film London | 7 Oct 2026 | £15,000 |
| Judicial Leadership Research | CREST ADVISORY (UK) LIMITED | 15 Oct 2026 | £40,013 |
Soonest 10 of 81 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 296 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£288m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 292 award records on 237 procedures (285 to a single canonical supplier, 7 multi-supplier). Typical award uses single-supplier VAT-exclusive GBP values below £5bn, excludes framework/DPS ceilings and — as a heuristic for republished framework totals — any amount repeated three or more times inside this authority’s 24-month awards; 164 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts (per lot, contested notices only, PA 2023 final-stage tenders where published), deadline-to-award and amendments come from the nightly buyer analytics row (v8, award-identity grain). Evidence tiers: robust ≥5, moderate 3–4, indicative 1–2.
- Contract end dates: 234 of 309 published contracts carry a period end; 81 end within 18 months, 41 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (16 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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