Department for Energy Security & Net Zero: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·Greater London·London
Official UK PPONPDHQ-2163-WYMH
Open now7next deadline 27 Sept 2026Notices, last 12 months97+137% vs prior 12 months (41)Typical bids per lot412% single-bid · 25 bid reportsTop-3 supplier share13%of 124 awarded procedures · 123 suppliersContracts ending ≤18 months2916 within 6 monthsPublished award value, 24m£242mnet · on 99 of 104 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 72%
Open notices
7 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenhouse Gas Inventory Improvement Programme - 2 Energy, Waste, and Industrial Processes and Product Use | 27 Sept 2026 | 7d | £3,010,000 |
| Greenhouse Gas Inventory Improvement Programme - 2 Energy, Waste, and Industrial Processes and Product Use | 27 Sept 2026 | 7d | £3,010,000 |
| Climate Ambition Support Alliance Phase 3 (CASA3) | 6 Oct 2026 | 16d | £8,400,000 |
| PS26239 - RAF015/2627 - Plug-in batteries safety study | 7 Oct 2026 | 17d | £300,000 |
| CSP26751 - Delegates for International Energy Agency Technology Collaboration Programme | 13 Oct 2026 | 23d | £147,934 |
| Biomass Research Programme | 13 Oct 2026 | 23d | £4,080,000 |
| From Local Shocks to Systemic Impacts: A Multi-hazard, Systems-based View of Physical Climate Risk | 14 Oct 2026 | 24d | £100,000 |
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
73 Research and development services24 procedures · 17% · 6 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet19 procedures · 14% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting18 procedures · 13%71 Architectural, construction, engineering14 procedures · 10% · 1 open75 Administration, defence and social security9 procedures · 7% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 3%66 Financial and insurance services4 procedures · 3%09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas3 procedures · 2%How they buy
Last 24 months · 138 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Contract 99% (136 notices)
- Framework 1% (2 notices)
Procedure route
- Direct award 47% (65 notices)
- Open 28% (38 notices)
- Route not published 19% (26 notices)
- Limited / restricted 4% (5 notices)
- Selective 3% (4 notices)
Typical bids per lot4robust · n=25Median of published bid counts per lot on contested contract notices · 12% of lots drew a single bid. Direct awards and framework / DPS lots are left out — vehicles draw a different crowd.
Deadline → award41 daysrobust · n=13Median days from submission deadline to first award notice.
Notice amendments0Median amendments per notice · 51 of 138 notices amended.
Award vs estimate0% at estimaterobust · n=22Median (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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aether Ltd | 7 | 5.6% | 6 | 7 | 18 Aug 2026 |
| Ricardo-AEA Ltd | 6 | 4.8% | 3 | 6 | 14 Apr 2026 |
| United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory | 4 | 3.2% | 4 | 5 | 1 Jul 2026 |
| PWC LLC | 4 | 3.2% | 4 | 4 | 28 Oct 2025 |
| BSI Standards Limited | 3 | 2.4% | 3 | 3 | 28 Jul 2026 |
| ENERGY SYSTEMS CATAPULT LIMITED | 3 | 2.4% | 2 | 4 | 4 Aug 2026 |
| FRAZER-NASH CONSULTANCY LIMITED | 3 | 2.4% | 2 | 3 | 11 Jun 2025 |
| UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology | 3 | 2.4% | 1 | 3 | 9 Sept 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 124 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 123 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
Published award value (24m)£242mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 99 of 104 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 72%. 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)£86k medianrobust · n=99Middle half £30k–£391k.
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DESNZ - COMMS - Media Buying and Planning | WPP plc | 12 Jun 2026 | 3.9 yrs | £50,000,000 ≈ £13m/yr |
| IT Service Management and Development (SMD) | VERSION 1 SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 28 Jul 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £50,000,000 ≈ £17m/yr |
| Legal services for Sizewell C | LINKLATERS LLP | — | 2.3 yrs | £31,920,000 † ≈ £14m/yr |
| Legal Services for the Sizewell C Project | LINKLATERS LLP | — | 1.7 yrs | £23,940,000 † ≈ £14m/yr |
| Nuclear Safeguards Programme (NSP) | United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory | 19 May 2026 | 3.6 yrs · up to 6.6 yrs | £19,500,000 ≈ £5.4m/yr |
Contracts ending
Published end dates only · 95 of 138 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 29 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 189 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flu Vaccination E- VouchersIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 17 Sept 2026 | £20,000 |
| OREC Ports Analysis | Awarded / complete | 17 Sept 2026 | — |
| Advisory Work on Portfolio Function Design | Awarded / complete | 9 Sept 2026 | — |
| XOSERVE - Provision of Gas Related Data | Awarded / complete | 8 Sept 2026 | — |
| UNFCCC Review BTR Oman | Awarded / complete | 7 Sept 2026 | — |
| UNFCCC Review BTR Luxembourg | Awarded / complete | 3 Sept 2026 | — |
| CSP26570 - Gas and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Market Analysis and Data SubscriptionSubscription services | Awarded / complete | 2 Sept 2026 | £195,000 |
| Great British Energy - Community Energy Shared Ownership document template creationEnergy-management services | Awarded / complete | 1 Sept 2026 | £416,666 |
| UNFCCC Review - BTR Belarus | Awarded / complete | 1 Sept 2026 | — |
| North West- Digital and Technology Skills ProgrammeComputer-related professional services | Awarded / complete | 25 Aug 2026 | £1,375,000 |
| Reporting UK Non-Nuclear Radioactive DischargesData collection and collation services | Awarded / complete | 24 Aug 2026 | £25,500 |
| Audio Visual (AV) Event Support For International ConferenceAudio-visual equipment | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2026 | £150,000 |
| IT Service Management and Development (SMD) | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2026 | — |
| con_10007 DESNZ - COMMS - Media Strategy, Planning and BuyingAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2026 | £50,000,000 |
| Academic Training: National Security for Energy Security Professionals | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2026 | — |
| UNFCCC Reviews - In-Country BTR of Algeria, Germany, Cyprus, Zambia | Awarded / complete | 18 Aug 2026 | — |
| Provision of a Fuel Finder ServiceSoftware-related services | Planning | 11 Aug 2026 | £3,000,000 |
| Conducting tests for HEM:FHS Model development | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2026 | — |
| Continuous Improvement Action Tracker softwareSoftware package and information systems | Planning | 10 Aug 2026 | £0 |
| Mission Innovation Secretariat | Awarded / complete | 4 Aug 2026 | — |
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 (£1.8bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 115 award records on 95 procedures (104 to a single canonical supplier, 9 multi-supplier, 2 with no supplier published). 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; 65 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: 95 of 138 published contracts carry a period end; 29 end within 18 months, 16 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (26 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
+2 further identifiers not listed here.
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