Department for Infrastructure: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·Northern Ireland·Belfast
Official UK PPONPYGQ-2313-DQRY
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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 35 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.
73 awarded tenders, 104 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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 · 36%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental3 procedures · 27%34 Transport equipment and products2 procedures · 18%71 Architectural, construction, engineering2 procedures · 18%32 Radio, television, communication1 procedures · 9%45 Construction work1 procedures · 9%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 9%73 Research and development services1 procedures · 9%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 · 11 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%(11 notices)
11 of 11 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.
Open64%(7 notices)
7 of 11 notices are Open (64%).Route not published27%(3 notices)
3 of 11 notices are Route not published (27%).Selective9%(1 notices)
1 of 11 notices are Selective (9%).
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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 35 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 11 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 23 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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| FP McCann Ltd | 9 | 12.3% | 0 | 14 | — |
| WHITEMOUNTAIN QUARRIES LTD t/a BREEDON | 7 | 9.6% | 0 | 11 | — |
| John McQuillan Contracts Ltd | 7 | 9.6% | 0 | 9 | — |
| PATRICK KEENAN | 5 | 6.8% | 0 | 9 | — |
| Amey OW Limited | 3 | 4.1% | 1 | 3 | — |
| NORTHSTONE NI LTD Materials Division | 3 | 4.1% | 0 | 6 | — |
| COWAN BROS. NI LTD | 3 | 4.1% | 0 | 4 | — |
| GIBSON BANBRIDGE LTD | 3 | 4.1% | 0 | 3 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 18% of 73 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 104 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 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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| LOT 1: Eastern Division and Western Division | WSP UK Limited | — | — | £48,000,000 † |
| LOT 2: Northern Division and Southern Division | Amey OW Limited | — | — | £35,000,000 † |
| ID 2355426 - DfI Safe and Sustainable Travel Advertising Services | Ardmore advertising and Marketing LTD | — | — | £5,640,000 † |
| - DfI - Advertising service to promote safe and sustainable travel in Northern Ireland | Ardmore advertising and Marketing LTD | 28 Aug 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £4,400,000 ≈ £1.5m/yr |
| ID 5958651 - Department for Infrastructure, TRAM, Roads Operations and Maintenance Provision of LGV Drivers for Winter Service Duties 2025 to 2030 | Manpower UK Limited trading as Talent Solutions | 15 Aug 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £2,600,000 ≈ £867k/yr |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 103 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
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 169 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.