DFT Operator Limited 'DFTO': Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: Private Limited CompanyGOV.UK register: Public corporationCentral governmentGreater LondonLondonRan 1 procurement for other authorities

Official UK PPONPXPM-5448-GHBZCompanies House07141122 ↗

Open now1next deadline 31 May 2034

Notices, last 12 months38+280% vs prior 12 months (10)

Top-3 supplier share18%of 44 awarded procedures · 44 suppliers

44 awarded tenders, 44 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months125 within 6 months

Published award value, 24m£118mnet · on 43 of 43 published values · top 5 = 94%

Open notices

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

Notice	Deadline	Days left	Published value
DFTO Ground TransportationDPS2 lots	31 May 2034	2,754d	—

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

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting11 procedures · 23%

72 IT services: consulting, software, internet7 procedures · 15%

48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 8%

34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 6% · 1 open

66 Financial and insurance services3 procedures · 6%

60 Transport services (except waste transport)2 procedures · 4% · 1 open

63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel2 procedures · 4%

22 Printed matter and related products1 procedure · 2%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 48 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool

Contract96%(46 notices)
46 of 48 notices are Contract (96%).
Dynamic purchasing system2%(1 notice)
1 of 48 notices is Dynamic purchasing system (2%).
Framework2%(1 notice)
1 of 48 notices is Framework (2%).

Procedure route

Limited / restricted52%(25 notices)
25 of 48 notices are Limited / restricted (52%).
Route not published29%(14 notices)
14 of 48 notices are Route not published (29%).
Direct award10%(5 notices)
5 of 48 notices are Direct award (10%).
Open4%(2 notices)
2 of 48 notices are Open (4%).
Selective4%(2 notices)
2 of 48 notices are Selective (4%).

Notice amendments

Based on 48 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

02 of 48 notices amended

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

Supplier	Procedures	Share	Last 24m	Award records	Last activity
V A RAIL LIMITED	3	6.8%	3	3	—
Baringa Partners	3	6.8%	3	3	—
Alchester HR Consulting Ltd	2	4.5%	2	2	—
Panthea Leadership Ltd.	2	4.5%	2	2	—
Addleshaw Goddard LLP	2	4.5%	2	2	—
PA CONSULTING SERVICES LTD	2	4.5%	2	2	—
TRANSPORT UK LONDON BUS LIMITEDframework/DPS on 1	1	2.3%	1	2	3 Jul 2026
CMAC Group UK Ltdframework/DPS on 1	1	2.3%	1	2	3 Jul 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 18% of 44 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 44 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)

£118mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 43 of 43 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 94%.

Typical single-supplier award (24m)

£100k middle valuerobust · n=43Middle half £43k–£298k.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
Provision of Recruitment Services	Alexander Mann Solutions Ltd	—	—	£100,000,000 †
Provision of Legal Advisers for the Public Ownership Programme	Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP	—	—	£3,650,000 †
Rail Network Customer Interfaces Merger: Structure, Purpose & Principles	M&C Saatchi (UK) Ltd	—	—	£3,000,000 †
Provision of Travel Management Services	TravelPerk UK IRL Limited	—	—	£2,000,000 †
Provision of Insurance Brokerage Services	Willis Limited	—	—	£1,400,000 †

Contracts ending
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23 of 43 contracts carry an end date · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
Procurement Consultancy Support	Ad Astra Consultants Ltd	31 Dec 2026	£95,000
Analytical Support to Dignity for Drivers	V A RAIL LIMITED	31 Dec 2026	£78,000
Provision of Political Monitoring Services	POLICYMOGUL LIMITED	2 Mar 2027	£101,876
Procurement Legal Support	DLA Piper	6 Mar 2027	£100,000
Supply Chain Consultancy Services	Selva Consulting Ltd	4 Apr 2027	£95,000
Executive Team Coaching	Panthea Leadership Ltd.	1 Jun 2027	£84,000
Strategic Safety Management Programme (SSMP) Training	Arthur D Little Ltd	15 Jun 2027	£100,000
IT Architecture Services for DFTO	PA CONSULTING SERVICES LTD	29 Jun 2027	£175,000
Cyber strategy and roadmap consultancy support	Marlborough Consulting LLP	23 Aug 2027	£30,000
TOC Remco Chair Services	Alchester HR Consulting Ltd	1 Oct 2027	£30,000

Soonest 10 of 12 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 49 of 48 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
Data Protection Officer Cover	Awarded / complete	8 Oct 2025	—
Network Performance Support	Awarded / complete	15 Aug 2025	—
HR Consultancy Support - Rewards	Awarded / complete	12 Jul 2025	—
IT Architecture Services for DFTOIT services: consulting	Awarded / complete	27 Jun 2025	£175,000
GBR Design Support	Awarded / complete	27 Jun 2025	—
Technical Advice to DFTO Train Crew Industrial Relations workstream	Awarded / complete	4 Jun 2025	—
Procurement Legal Support	Awarded / complete	2 May 2025	—
FOI Customer Relationship Management System	Awarded / complete	2 May 2025	—

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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. 23 of 43 published contracts have an end date; 0 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.