Department for Business & Trade: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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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 12 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
259 awarded tenders, 256 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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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 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, 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 · 1%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 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 · 271 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.
- Contract 99% (267 notices)
- Framework 1% (3 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 0% (1 notices)
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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.
- Direct award 81% (219 notices)
- Selective 6% (16 notices)
- Route not published 6% (15 notices)
- Open 4% (11 notices)
- Limited / restricted 4% (10 notices)
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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 12 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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 3 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 271 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 7 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| Ernst and Young LLP | 5 | 1.9% | 5 | 5 | 26 Aug 2026 |
| I.F.F RESEARCH LIMITED | 4 | 1.5% | 4 | 7 | 23 Sept 2026 |
| SGS United Kingdom Limited | 4 | 1.5% | 3 | 8 | 20 Mar 2026 |
| Post Office Limited | 4 | 1.5% | 3 | 5 | 19 May 2026 |
| IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD | 3 | 1.2% | 3 | 6 | 23 Sept 2026 |
| Clarion Events LIMITED | 3 | 1.2% | 3 | 3 | 21 Aug 2025 |
| ADS Group | 3 | 1.2% | 3 | 3 | 15 Jul 2026 |
| Moody's Analytics UK Ltd | 3 | 1.2% | 3 | 3 | 29 Jun 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 5% of 259 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 256 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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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.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
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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| Media Strategy, Planning and Buying | WPP plc | 5 Jun 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £80,000,000 ≈ £27m/yr |
| 63000000 | OMD Group Ltd. | — | 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 endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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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.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 291 of 320 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Support Service Worker for DBT Employee Notice | Nikolsky Healthcare | 30 Sept 2026 | £75,000 |
| IISS Military Balance Plus | International Institute for Strategic Studies | 30 Sept 2026 | £11,000 |
| Finance & Investment Decisions Survey 2025 (Analysis) | Oxford Brookes University | 30 Sept 2026 | £50,000 |
| One Great George Street – Venue Booking | One Great George Street | 2 Oct 2026 | £18,475 |
| Production Finance Market (PFM) and Upstream 2026 | Film London | 7 Oct 2026 | £15,000 |
| Open Banking Expo 2026 | Borough Bench Media Ltd | 14 Oct 2026 | £15,000 |
| Judicial Leadership Research | Crest Advisory (UK) Ltd. | 15 Oct 2026 | £40,013 |
| The Economist Subscription Renewal | The Economist | 18 Oct 2026 | £50,750 |
| Relpro Subscription | Relpro Inc | 21 Oct 2026 | US$55,000 |
| CR_5487 Railway Project Work for Peru (DBT) | Arup International Projects Limited | 23 Oct 2026 | £15,000 |
Soonest 10 of 85 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 303 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| CR_5487 Railway Project Work for Peru (DBT) | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2026 | — |
| Mintel Corporate Subscription 2026-2028 | Awarded / complete | 1 Sept 2026 | — |
| Cyber Resilience of UK CNI Chemical Operators | Awarded / complete | 28 Aug 2026 | — |
| BICS Implementation Support Services | Awarded / complete | 26 Aug 2026 | — |
| Critical Minerals - Demand Aggregation PlatformIT services: consulting | Planned | 25 Aug 2026 | £4,166,667 |
| Production Finance Market (PFM) and Upstream 2026 | Awarded / complete | 24 Aug 2026 | — |
| Security Export Statistics 2025 | Awarded / complete | 21 Aug 2026 | — |
| Marketing Production ServicesMiscellaneous business and business-related services | Planned | 19 Aug 2026 | £2,000,000 |
| Smart Data Economic Incentives Research | Awarded / complete | 17 Aug 2026 | — |
| DDaT Recruitment | Awarded / complete | 14 Aug 2026 | — |
| Dark Fibre Optic Connection to Parliament | Awarded / complete | 14 Aug 2026 | — |
| DBT and UK Interactive Entertainment Ltd (Ukie) gamescom Trade Mission 2026 | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2026 | — |
| China Joy Trade Mission 2026 | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2026 | — |
| Cannes Lions 2026 | Awarded / complete | 10 Aug 2026 | — |
| DBT Europe All Staff Conference 2026 Venue | Awarded / complete | 10 Aug 2026 | — |
| Tokyo Game Show Trade Mission 2026 | Awarded / complete | 7 Aug 2026 | — |
| DBT Business Support ServiceMiscellaneous business and business-related services | Planned | 5 Aug 2026 | £8,333,333 |
| Provision of Digital Design Support Development ServicesComputer support and consultancy services | Planned | 5 Aug 2026 | £7,000,000 |
| Business Growth Support BenchComputer support and consultancy services | Planned | 5 Aug 2026 | £6,000,000 |
| Digital Partner for Trade and Regulatory PortfolioComputer support and consultancy services | Planned | 5 Aug 2026 | £6,000,000 |
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: 303 award records on 244 procedures (296 to a single canonical supplier, 7 multi-supplier). 166 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: 291 of 320 published contracts carry a period end; 85 end within 18 months, 45 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (17 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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