Tenderline / Buyers

Department for the Economy: UK public procurement profile

Central governmentNorthern IrelandBELFAST

Find a Tender organisation id170948Websiteetendersni.gov.uk

What they buy

Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

32 Radio, television, communication1 procedures · 25%
45 Construction work1 procedures · 25%
51 Installation services (except software)1 procedures · 25%
64 Postal and telecommunications services1 procedures · 25%
65 Public utilities1 procedures · 25%

How they buy

Last 24 months · 4 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
  • Contract 100% (4 notices)
Procedure route
  • Open 50% (2 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 25% (1 notices)
  • Selective 25% (1 notices)
Typical bids per notice2indicative · n=2Median of published bid reports · 50% of reports show a single bidder. Includes framework and DPS notices.
Notice amendments3Median amendments per notice · 3 of 4 notices amended.
Award vs estimate0% at estimateindicative · n=2Median (estimate − award) / estimate on single-lot, single-supplier GBP pairs; 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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Cavanagh Kellyframework/DPS on 1210.5%026 Jun 2022
ANALYSYS MASON LIMITED DUBLIN210.5%027 Feb 2023
FUJITSU SERVICES LIMITED210.5%0231 Mar 2022
Wardell Armstrong LLP15.3%114 Mar 2025
ITS COMPUTING LIMITED15.3%118 Jan 2026
Fibrus Ltd15.3%1123 Dec 2025
DISABILITY ACTION NI15.3%0511 Feb 2022
ULSTER SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT LIMITED15.3%0411 Feb 2022

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 32% of 19 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 42 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)£84mSum of published values on 3 of 3 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%. 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)£2.4m medianmoderate · n=3Middle half £1.3m£42m.

Recent procedures

Latest 29 of 29 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
DfE - SERC - Advertising Services for SERCcentral purchasing bodyAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete10 Nov 2021
DfE - Organisational Development and Transformation ProgrammeBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete29 Sept 2021
ID 3336901 DfE ApprenticeshipsNI 2021 Programme (Apps21)Computer coursesAwarded / complete28 Jul 2021
ID 3336901 DfE ApprenticeshipsNI 2021 Programme (Apps21)Computer coursesOpen24 Mar 2021£122,100,000
ID 3391076 - DfE - LOBA Replacement Programme – Work-Based Learning Strand - **Pre-Market Engagement**IT services: consultingOpen10 Mar 2021£1
ID 3391076 - DfE - LOBA Replacement Programme - Work Based Learning StrandIT services: consultingPlanned10 Mar 2021
DfE - Project Stratum - Implementation supportcentral purchasing bodyTelecommunication consultancy servicesAwarded / complete1 Mar 2021
P10773 - DEL Line of Business ApplicationsIT services: consultingNot published31 Mar 2022
ID 3976745 DAC 172/21 DfE - Review of Further Education Delivery ModelBusiness services: lawNot published7 Jan 2022

Search all 29 procedures for this authority →

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 (£216m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 3 award records on 3 procedures (3 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). Typical award uses single-supplier 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; 3 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Bid counts, 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: 0 of 25 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 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.

GB-FTS-112786GB-FTS-114227GB-FTS-125122GB-FTS-139746GB-FTS-29949GB-FTS-38038GB-FTS-39633GB-FTS-41465GB-FTS-7013GB-FTS-74697GB-FTS-8350GB-FTS-88397GB-FTS-9894

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-170948