Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Official UK PPONPVWZ-3216-PVQL
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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 24 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.
131 awarded tenders, 124 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.
Open notices
3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| PS26195 - Futures Procurement Framework | 12 Oct 2026 | 12d | £9,000,000 |
| NSpOC: Sovereign Sensor - Active RF Radar Capability | 15 Oct 2026 | 15d | £25,000,000 |
| UK Space Agency - Operational Support to the International Charter: Space and Major Disasters | 11 Nov 2026 | 42d | £546,693 |
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
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet33 procedures · 18% · 1 open64 Postal and telecommunications services23 procedures · 12%73 Research and development services21 procedures · 11% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering15 procedures · 8%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting7 procedures · 4%32 Radio, television, communication6 procedures · 3%38 Laboratory, optical and precision5 procedures · 3% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems5 procedures · 3%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 · 188 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 87% (163 notices)
- Framework 13% (24 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 1% (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 47% (88 notices)
- Selective 19% (36 notices)
- Open 17% (32 notices)
- Route not published 16% (30 notices)
- Limited / restricted 1% (2 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 24 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 20 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 188 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 13 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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| CityFibre Limited | 10 | 7.6% | 10 | 46 | 24 Jun 2026 |
| Quickline Communications Limited | 4 | 3.1% | 4 | 16 | 21 Aug 2026 |
| WESSEX INTERNET LIMITED | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 12 | 2 Sept 2026 |
| National Physical Laboratory Ltd | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 3 | 10 Aug 2026 |
| TUV SUD LIMITED | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 3 | 22 Jul 2026 |
| Royal Institute of Navigation | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 3 | 16 Mar 2026 |
| Feedly Inc | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 3 | 25 Sept 2026 |
| LGC LIMITED | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 3 | 22 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 131 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 124 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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| National Timing Centre (NTC) Delivery Programme 2 | National Physical Laboratory Ltd | 6 Jul 2026 | 3.7 yrs | £180,000,000 ≈ £49m/yr |
| DSIT NMS - NPL Energy and Environment | NPL Management Limited | — | 3 mo | £170,266,960 † |
| Gigabit Infrastructure Subsidy Programme - Regional Supplier Contract - Cumbria | Fibrus Networks GB Ltd | — | 11.1 yrs | £149,880,499 † ≈ £14m/yr |
| Matrix Programme - Technology (including ERP) & Systems Integration Services | Cognizant Worldwide Ltd | — | — | £80,787,706 † |
| Matrix Programme - Technology (including ERP) & Systems Integration Services | Workday Ltd | — | — | £63,542,998 † |
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 · 262 of 277 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| DSIT NMS - NPL Energy and Environment | NPL Management Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £170,266,960 |
| Provision of Teacher Services - Education Benchmarking | Randstad Solutions Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £750,000 |
| British Science Week | British Science Association, The British Asssociation for the Advancement of Science | 4 Oct 2026 | £30,000 |
| Bibliometric data- SciVal | Elsevier B.V. | 9 Oct 2026 | £34,368 |
| Executive Search Digital Transformation and Digital Product DG | Global Resourcing Ltd | 11 Oct 2026 | £100,000 |
| Telecoms Restructuring Advice | FTI Consulting LLP | 23 Oct 2026 | £300,000 |
| ERC Research and Related Services | University of Warwick | 30 Oct 2026 | £65,000 |
| API Access - OpenRouter | OpenRouter Inc | 31 Oct 2026 | £104,000 |
| GSE Conference 2026 | Institution of Civil Engineers | 31 Oct 2026 | £91,840 |
| DSIT Continuation of Security Support Services | AVELLA SECURITY LIMITED | 31 Oct 2026 | £50,490 |
Soonest 10 of 55 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 206 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 (£839m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 302 award records on 120 procedures (297 to a single canonical supplier, 5 multi-supplier). 48 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: 262 of 277 published contracts carry a period end; 55 end within 18 months, 18 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (13 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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