Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Ministerial departmentCentral governmentGreater LondonLondon

Official UK PPONPVWZ-3216-PVQL

Open notices

3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

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 · 185 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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  • Contract98%(182 notices)
    182 of 185 notices are Contract (98%).
  • Framework2%(3 notices)
    3 of 185 notices are Framework (2%).
Procedure route
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  • Direct award55%(101 notices)
    101 of 185 notices are Direct award (55%).
  • Open18%(34 notices)
    34 of 185 notices are Open (18%).
  • Route not published17%(31 notices)
    31 of 185 notices are Route not published (17%).
  • Selective10%(18 notices)
    18 of 185 notices are Selective (10%).
  • Limited / restricted1%(1 notice)
    1 of 185 notices is Limited / restricted (1%).
Typical bids per lot
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Based on 25 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

7robust · n=254% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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Based on 22 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

23 daysrobust · n=22
Notice amendments
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Based on 185 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

040 of 185 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Based on 13 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

8.8% below estimaterobust · n=13

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
NPL Management Limited116.6%111310 Aug 2026
CityFibre Limitedframework/DPS on 10106%047—
Royal Institute of Navigation42.4%449 Mar 2026
LGC LIMITED42.4%4422 Jul 2026
Quickline Communications Limitedframework/DPS on 442.4%016—
AVELLA SECURITY LIMITED31.8%3629 Jun 2026
Elsevier B.V.31.8%349 Sept 2025
TUV SUD LIMITED31.8%3322 Jul 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 15% of 167 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 146 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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£1.1bnSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 135 of 142 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 78%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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£91k middle valuerobust · n=135Middle half £45k–£1.2m; 7 awards with ambiguous equal values within a procedure excluded from both figures.
Largest published awards
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SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
DSIT NMS - NPL Energy and EnvironmentNPL Management Limited—3 yrs · up to 4 yrs£362,775,093
≈ £121m/yr
National Timing Centre (NTC) Delivery Programme 2NPL Management Limited6 Jul 20263.7 yrs£180,000,000
≈ £49m/yr
DSIT NMS - NPL Energy and EnvironmentNPL Management Limited—3 mo£170,266,960 †
DSIT NMS - NPL Energy and EnvironmentNPL Management Limited19 May 202510 mo£113,215,548
DSIT NMS LCG Phase 2 (GC & CBM)LGC LIMITED22 Jul 20262.7 yrs£36,820,006
≈ £14m/yr

Contracts ending
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298 of 310 contracts carry an end date, 2 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 56 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 226 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
CSP26640 - Branding Services for the Government Cyber ProfessionAwarded / complete16 Oct 2026—
Physical and Personnel Security Assessment for UK TelecomsSecurity servicesAwarded / complete16 Oct 2026£100,000
Social science of power and water outageAwarded / complete15 Oct 2026—
Researchfish Explorer Subscription 2026–2027Awarded / complete15 Oct 2026—
Gigabit Infrastructure Subsidy Programme - Cross-Regional Supplier Call-Off 8Telecommunications servicesAwarded / complete14 Oct 2026£800,000,000
GIS Programme - Regional Supplier Contract - Oxfordshire 13.02DPSTelecommunications servicesAwarded / complete13 Oct 2026£2,000,000,000
Government Office for Technology Transfer - PRIMA 4Awarded / complete12 Oct 2026—
UK7 ARIA ChairAwarded / complete12 Oct 2026—
Bibliometric data renewalAwarded / complete12 Oct 2026—
DSIT NMS Phase 2– LGC GC + CBMLaboratory servicesAwarded / complete9 Oct 2026—
Techfirst womens ProgrammeTraining programme servicesAwarded / complete6 Oct 2026£10,000,000
DSIT NMS - NEL Flow ProgrammeAwarded / complete6 Oct 2026—
Delivery Partner for GDS Local & Service StandardAwarded / complete5 Oct 2026—
UK7 CREST Project for Secondary SchoolsAwarded / complete2 Oct 2026—
Invitation to Tender - AI Skills Boost HubE-learning servicesAwarded / complete2 Oct 2026£1,500,000
Quantum data renewalAwarded / complete1 Oct 2026—
Data Sharing Infrastructure Initiatives (DSII) - DiscoveryAwarded / complete30 Sept 2026—
Alteryx Software LicencesAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026—
RFI: AISI - Post-Award Research Grant AdministrationAdministration servicesPlanning25 Sept 2026—
UK Space Agency Space-Comm Expo 2027 StandAwarded / complete25 Sept 2026—

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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. 298 of 310 published contracts have an end date; 2 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.