Department of Finance: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Central governmentNorthern IrelandBelfastCentral purchasing body on 5 of 35 notices

Official UK PPONPVTL-7513-YWVJ

Open now2next deadline 19 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months21+50% vs prior 12 months (14)
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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 lot237.1% single-bid · 35 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 35 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share13%of 75 awarded procedures · 105 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.

75 awarded tenders, 105 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months2none 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£1.1bnnet · on 35 of 45 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 74%
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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

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

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

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 · 35 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 83% (29 notices)
  • Framework 17% (6 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.

  • Open 66% (23 notices)
  • Selective 14% (5 notices)
  • Route not published 9% (3 notices)
  • Direct award 6% (2 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 6% (2 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 35 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2robust · n=3537.1% 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 15 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

34 daysrobust · n=15
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 35 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

325 of 35 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 31 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=31

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
POWER NI ENERGY LIMITED45.3%146 Jan 2026
ERNST YOUNG LLPframework/DPS on 234%2530 May 2025
WHISTL UK LIMITED34%1331 Mar 2026
HORIZON ENERGY GROUP LIMITED34%138 Jan 2025
ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTDframework/DPS on 234%135 Aug 2025
British Telecommunications Plc34%0321 Jun 2022
Oasis Group NI22.7%144 Dec 2025
Data Dispatch Limited22.7%1329 Jun 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 75 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 105 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.

£1.1bnSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 35 of 45 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 74%.
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.

£3.2m middle valuerobust · n=35Middle half £1.6m–£33m; 3 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
Lot 2 - Administration roles (excluding DfC) and Corporate FunctionsThe UK Recruitment Co Ltd24 Jun 20263.3 yrs · up to 8.3 yrs£300,000,000
≈ £92m/yr
DoF – Collaborative Arrangement – Provision of Natural Gas 2026 -2029 (ID 5828888)Firmus Energy (Supply) Limited16 Jan 20263 yrs£202,000,000
≈ £67m/yr
Department of Finance - Integr8 Programme - Integr8 Delivery PartnerVersion1 Software——£150,000,000 †
DoF LPS Land Registration Delivery Partner ProjectFujitsu Services Ltd——£125,000,000 †
DoF - Collaborative Arrangement - Provision of Unmetered Electricity 2026 - 2029POWER NI ENERGY LIMITED6 Jan 20263 yrs£66,000,000
≈ £22m/yr

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 · 31 of 119 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 99 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
ID 5943773 DoF Procurement of monographs for NICS Libraries2 lotsLibrary booksAwarded / complete20 Aug 2025£350,000
Department of Finance - Integr8 Programme - Integr8 Delivery Partnercentral purchasing bodyAccounting servicesAwarded / complete12 Aug 2025£150,000,000
ID 6026401 DoF - Provision of Fuel Cards - Collaborative ArrangementAgency fuel cardsPlanning3 Jul 2025£26,000,000
ID 5537570 - DoF - Provision of Internal Audit ServicesFramework2 lotsAccounting and auditing servicesAwarded / complete30 May 2025£2,000,000
ID 5897841 - DAC 39/25 - DOF - LPS - Avgen Support and MaintenanceAwarded / complete30 Apr 2025—
DoF LPS Land Registration Delivery Partner Projectcentral purchasing bodyAdministration servicesAwarded / complete16 Apr 2025£125,000,000
ID 5424277 DoF LPS - Replacement of GNSS Network Processing SoftwareDigital mapping systemAwarded / complete27 Feb 2025£178,000
ID 5530827 Department of Finance - NISRA - SPSS LicencesIT services: consultingAwarded / complete25 Feb 2025£165,000
ID 5279958 Provision of Learning and Development Services Collaborative FrameworkFrameworkcentral purchasing body5 lotsE-learning servicesAwarded / complete12 Feb 2025—
ID 5691603 DAC 106/24 DoF Land and Property Services AMS-IDOX IntegrationIT services: consultingAwarded / complete21 Jan 2025—
DoF – Collaborative arrangement – Provision of copier paper (ID 4670342)FrameworkPhotocopier paperAwarded / complete14 Jan 2025£15,000,000
DoF - Collaborative Arrangement Provision of Energy Market Advisory Services (ID 5320877)Energy and related servicesAwarded / complete8 Jan 2025£190,000
DoF - Collaborative Arrangement for the Provision of Insurance Brokerage Services for NI Public Sector Fleet (ID 5138934)central purchasing bodyInsurance brokerage servicesAwarded / complete10 Oct 2024—
ID 5424320 DoF IT Assist - Supply and Delivery of a SOC/SIEM for NICS - PMEcentral purchasing bodyAnti-virus software development servicesPlanned23 Sept 2024—
DoF Collaborative Supply of Biomass Fuels (Wood Pellets) 2024-2030 (ID 4668579)central purchasing bodyWood fuelsAwarded / complete22 Aug 2024—
DoF – Collaborative Arrangement – Supply and Delivery of Vehicle Spare Parts 2024 – 2028 (Mitsubishi, Unimog) - ID5321283Frameworkcentral purchasing bodyMechanical spare parts except engines and engine partsUnsuccessful2 Aug 2024—
DoF - Civil Service Pensions (CSP) Systems Projectcentral purchasing bodyComputer support and consultancy servicesOpen28 May 2024£20,000,000
Department of Finance – Occupational Health Service – Core Services Market Sounding Exercise (PME)central purchasing bodyHealth and social work servicesPlanned9 Apr 2024£1
ID 5247749 Department of Finance - Land and Property Services - Oracle Software Support and MaintenanceIT services: consultingAwarded / complete9 Apr 2024—
ID 5310182 - DAC 36/24 - DoF - Enterprise Digital Development - Digital Verification for NICS Identity Assurance Contractcentral purchasing bodyIT services: consultingAwarded / complete29 Mar 2024—

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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 (£808m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 51 award records on 24 procedures (45 to a single canonical supplier, 6 multi-supplier). 12 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: 31 of 119 published contracts carry a period end; 2 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (29 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-103997GB-FTS-105249GB-FTS-105457GB-FTS-109358GB-FTS-109488GB-FTS-110266GB-FTS-110311GB-FTS-122256GB-FTS-128574GB-FTS-130764GB-FTS-139213GB-FTS-157655GB-FTS-18633GB-FTS-20215GB-FTS-23122GB-FTS-26600GB-FTS-3552GB-FTS-38146GB-FTS-3956GB-FTS-4157GB-FTS-42082GB-FTS-46513GB-FTS-48289GB-FTS-70667

+5 further identifiers not listed here.

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PVTL-7513-YWVJ