Department for Transport: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Ministerial departmentNHS ODS: GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTCentral governmentGreater LondonLondonRan 2 procurements for other authorities

Official UK PPONPLTC-5358-LTWZ

Open now4next deadline 5 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months153+132% vs prior 12 months (66)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot413.3% single-bid · 30 bid reports
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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 30 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share6%of 221 awarded procedures · 253 suppliers
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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.

221 awarded tenders, 253 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months4720 within 6 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.

Published award value, 24m£214mnet · on 132 of 187 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 49%
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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

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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
International HGV sales data5 Oct 20265d£20,000
Trace, Evaluate and Reinforce (TracER)7 Oct 20267d£135,000
DfT National Freight Model9 Oct 20269d£1,950,000
Provision of Heathrow Expansion Banking Advisor23 Oct 202623d£3,000,000

What they buy
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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

71 Architectural, construction, engineering30 procedures · 14% · 3 open
73 Research and development services21 procedures · 10% · 2 open
50 Repair and maintenance services10 procedures · 5% · 1 open
66 Financial and insurance services10 procedures · 5% · 1 open
45 Construction work10 procedures · 5%

How they buy
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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 · 219 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 96% (211 notices)
  • Framework 4% (8 notices)
Procedure route
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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% (102 notices)
  • Open 24% (52 notices)
  • Route not published 12% (27 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 11% (24 notices)
  • Selective 6% (14 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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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 30 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4robust · n=3013.3% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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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 21 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

36 daysrobust · n=21
Notice amendments
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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 220 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

069 of 220 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 21 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=21

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
TRL ltd52.3%463 Sept 2026
Mott MacDonaldframework/DPS on 352.3%3917 Jun 2026
KPMGframework/DPS on 252.3%3617 Jul 2026
Niblock (Builders) Limited41.8%4521 Aug 2026
BSI Standards Limited41.8%446 Aug 2026
SYSTRA Limitedframework/DPS on 241.8%3628 Sept 2026
AtkinsRéalis UK Ltdframework/DPS on 241.8%2514 Sept 2026
OVE ARUP & PARTNERS LIMITEDframework/DPS on 341.8%194 Jun 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 221 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 253 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£214mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 132 of 187 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 49%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£108k middle valuerobust · n=132Middle half £27k–£368k; 29 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Media Buying ServicesWavemaker Ltd—3.8 yrs£30,000,000 †
≈ £8.0m/yr
Lower Thames Crossing- Strategic Sale AdvisorLazard & Co., Limited19 Dec 20252 yrs · up to 3 yrs£20,000,000
≈ £10m/yr
Lower Thames Crossing- Strategic Sale AdvisorLazard & Co., Limited—2 yrs · up to 3 yrs£20,000,000 †
≈ £10m/yr
DfT - Street Manager Digital ServiceKainos Software Limited22 May 20263 yrs · up to 5 yrs£18,000,000
≈ £6.0m/yr
National Security Science and Research Programme Contract Extension 25-26PA CONSULTING SERVICES LTD——£16,000,000 †

Contracts ending
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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 · 128 of 248 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 47 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 342 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
TLOT10207 - Seatbelt and Mobile Phone Observation Survey 2026Awarded / complete28 Jul 2026—
Aviation Fleet Data ServiceData servicesAwarded / complete27 Jul 2026£15,000
Provision of Seafarers Data CollectionEconomic research servicesAwarded / complete27 Jul 2026£25,000
Provision of HS2 Phase 2 Surplus Land and Property Disposal Delivery AgentReal estate agency services on a fee or contract basisAwarded / complete24 Jul 2026£8,500,000
Provision of C-Suite ProgrammeAwarded / complete17 Jul 2026—
Roads Policing Innovation Project and Continued Work 26/27Awarded / complete14 Jul 2026—

Search all 342 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 (£675m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 188 award records on 157 procedures (187 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 99 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: 128 of 248 published contracts carry a period end; 47 end within 18 months, 20 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (59 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-103449GB-FTS-106742GB-FTS-107351GB-FTS-107920GB-FTS-109982GB-FTS-114087GB-FTS-114928GB-FTS-11791GB-FTS-121148GB-FTS-128042GB-FTS-135321GB-FTS-136546GB-FTS-137158GB-FTS-139142GB-FTS-144173GB-FTS-16062GB-FTS-16326GB-FTS-172400GB-FTS-179454GB-FTS-185297GB-FTS-18616GB-FTS-19756GB-FTS-20266GB-FTS-21604

+35 further identifiers not listed here.

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PLTC-5358-LTWZ