Department for Business & Trade: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTGOV.UK register: Ministerial departmentCentral governmentGreater LondonLondon

Official UK PPONPZZJ-6312-QTTD

What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 293 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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  • Contract99%(291 notices)
    291 of 293 notices are Contract (99%).
  • Framework1%(2 notices)
    2 of 293 notices are Framework (1%).
Procedure route
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  • Direct award85%(248 notices)
    248 of 293 notices are Direct award (85%).
  • Selective5%(14 notices)
    14 of 293 notices are Selective (5%).
  • Route not published5%(14 notices)
    14 of 293 notices are Route not published (5%).
  • Limited / restricted3%(10 notices)
    10 of 293 notices are Limited / restricted (3%).
  • Open2%(7 notices)
    7 of 293 notices are Open (2%).
Typical bids per lot
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Based on 9 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

2robust · n=922.2% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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Based on 3 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

98 daysmoderate · n=3
Notice amendments
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Based on 293 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

012 of 293 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Based on 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

0% at estimatemoderate · n=3

Who wins here
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All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTDframework/DPS on 1112%101521 Sept 2026
IFF Research Ltdframework/DPS on 291.6%71429 Sept 2026
SGS United Kingdom Limitedframework/DPS on 181.4%61220 Mar 2026
Ernst & Young LLP71.2%7713 May 2025
Post Office Limited61.1%5713 Oct 2025
YOUGOV PLCframework/DPS on 261.1%4623 Oct 2025
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP61.1%3611 Feb 2026
Ashurst LLP50.9%557 Jul 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 5% of 561 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 440 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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£196mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 252 of 255 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 85%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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£50k middle valuerobust · n=252Middle half £25k–£92k; 3 awards with ambiguous equal values within a procedure excluded from both figures.
Largest published awards
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SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Media Strategy, Planning and BuyingWavemaker Ltd5 Jun 20263 yrs · up to 4 yrs£80,000,000
≈ £27m/yr
63000000OMD Group Ltd.—4.1 yrs£63,000,000 †
≈ £15m/yr
Delivery of Strategic Business Events and TradeshowsIdentity Global Ltd4 Sept 20262 yrs · up to 3 yrs£15,000,000
≈ £7.5m/yr
Strategic Sites AcceleratorCBRE Limited14 Apr 20263 yrs£5,000,000
≈ £1.7m/yr
CAPTURE Document DisclosurePost Office Limited—4.9 yrs£4,489,365 †
≈ £913k/yr

Contracts ending
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608 of 627 contracts carry an end date, 8 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 8 of 187 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 336 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Digital Trade Corridors (DTC) Programme Phase 2Awarded / complete6 Nov 2026—
Level 4 Professional Accounting Technician ApprenticeshipAdult and other education servicesAwarded / complete5 Nov 2026—
Busan International Film Festival 2026Awarded / complete4 Nov 2026—
SIAL Paris 2026 UK Innovation ShowcaseAwarded / complete3 Nov 2026—
B2B Digital Business Identity Research and Options AdviceAwarded / complete2 Nov 2026—
Agri-Tech Exports Accelerator ProgrammeBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesPlanning29 Oct 2026£750,000
Singapore Fintech Festival Event 2026Awarded / complete27 Oct 2026—
Supply of Xapian ServicesAwarded / complete26 Oct 2026—
Benefits of Commitments on the Prohibition of Performance RequirementsAwarded / complete22 Oct 2026—
Company Watch PlatformAwarded / complete22 Oct 2026—
Mapping UK Professional Business Qualifications and associated Translation ServicesAwarded / complete21 Oct 2026—
Tumble Dryer Study to Explore Fire RisksAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026—
GDHA Expert Witness ReportAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026—
HEALTH USA 2026 UK PavilionAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026—
British Beauty Council activities FY 2026-27Awarded / complete19 Oct 2026—
The Economist Subscription for DBISTAwarded / complete16 Oct 2026—
Business Support ServiceMiscellaneous business and business-related servicesPlanned15 Oct 2026£10,800,000
DBT and The British Film Commission 2026Awarded / complete15 Oct 2026—
Research into Work Stress, Burnout and Employment OutcomesDPScentral purchasing bodyResearch and development services and related consultancy servicesAwarded / complete15 Oct 2026£1,300,000,000
Delivery of Strategic Business Events and TradeshowsAwarded / complete15 Oct 2026—

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Contracts Finder adds 283 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. 608 of 627 published contracts have an end date; 8 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.