Department for Economy (DfE): Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·Northern Ireland·Belfast
Official UK PPONPZXX-5679-MBYZ
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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 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
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 · 33%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental3 procedures · 25%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 17%80 Education and training services2 procedures · 17%16 Agricultural machinery1 procedures · 8%32 Radio, television, communication1 procedures · 8%34 Transport equipment and products1 procedures · 8%38 Laboratory, optical and precision1 procedures · 8%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 · 12 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 100% (12 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.
- Open 83% (10 notices)
- Route not published 17% (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 7 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 7 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 12 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 5 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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| Workforce Training Services | 2 | 25% | 2 | 2 | 28 Aug 2025 |
| Clanrye Group Limited | 2 | 25% | 2 | 2 | 28 Aug 2025 |
| D.F.P.F. Ltd | 2 | 25% | 2 | 2 | 28 Aug 2025 |
| 21TRAINING LIMITED | 2 | 25% | 2 | 2 | 28 Aug 2025 |
| COALISLAND TRAINING SERVICES LIMITED | 2 | 25% | 2 | 2 | 28 Aug 2025 |
| CRAFT TRAINING LTD | 2 | 25% | 2 | 2 | 28 Aug 2025 |
| DERRY YOUTH AND COMMUNITY WORKSHOP LIMITED | 2 | 25% | 2 | 2 | 28 Aug 2025 |
| IMPACT TRAINING N.I LIMITED | 2 | 25% | 2 | 2 | 28 Aug 2025 |
8 awarded procedures across 43 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
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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.
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 · 8 of 8 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| DFE - MAPB - Energy Group - Strategic Environmental Assessment & Habitats Regulations Assessment of Mineral Development in Northern Ireland | RPS Ireland Limited, RPS Ireland Limited | 22 Mar 2027 | £220,206 |
| DfE - TSS - Supply and Delivery of a Tractor Unit | TBF Thompson DAF Trucks | 30 Jun 2027 | £109,995 |
| ID 5828340 - DfE - Skills for Life and Work Programme 2025 | 21TRAINING LIMITED, 21TRAINING LIMITED, Ashton Community Trust +35 | 31 Jul 2027 | £195,000,000 |
| ID 5928927 - DfE - Purchase of Equipment to Monitor Movement on Abandoned Mines Within Northern Ireland | DATUM MONITORING IRELAND LIMITED | 29 Sept 2027 | £124,721 |
| 1 | Tetra Tech Consulting NI Ltd, Tetra Tech Consulting NI Ltd | 30 Nov 2027 | £200,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 12 of 12 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 (£380m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 8 award records on 8 procedures (5 to a single canonical supplier, 3 multi-supplier). 0 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: 8 of 8 published contracts carry a period end; 5 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.