Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Ministerial departmentCentral governmentGreater LondonLondonRan 1 procurement for other authorities

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Open now7next 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 months443+89% vs prior 12 months (235)
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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 lot312.7% single-bid · 110 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 110 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share5%of 704 awarded procedures · 823 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.

704 awarded tenders, 823 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months9438 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£1.6bnnet · on 392 of 484 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 59%
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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

7 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 · 678 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% (651 notices)
  • Framework 4% (27 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.

  • Limited / restricted 38% (259 notices)
  • Open 33% (222 notices)
  • Route not published 15% (99 notices)
  • Direct award 8% (55 notices)
  • Selective 6% (43 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 110 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=11012.7% 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 48 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

82 daysrobust · n=48
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 678 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

0196 of 678 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 41 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=41

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
Palladium International Limitedframework/DPS on 3152.1%8212 Apr 2026
Adam Smith International Limitedframework/DPS on 3121.7%21914 Sept 2026
Mott MacDonaldframework/DPS on 291.3%21322 Jul 2025
DAI Global (UK) Limitedframework/DPS on 581.1%31517 Mar 2026
Oxford Policy Management Limitedframework/DPS on 481.1%31513 Aug 2026
Tetra Tech International Development Limitedframework/DPS on 471%31229 Sept 2025
DT GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT UK LTDframework/DPS on 460.9%1929 Sept 2025
Cowater International50.7%5515 Oct 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 5% of 704 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 823 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.

£1.6bnSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 392 of 484 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 59%.
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.

£68k middle valuerobust · n=392Middle half £39k–£270k; 14 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
Humanitarian Emergency Response Operations and Stabilisation Programme (HEROS)Palladium International Limited——£330,000,000 †
Humanitarian Emergency Response Operations and Stabilisation (HEROS)Palladium International Limited—11.3 yrs£330,000,000 †
≈ £29m/yr
Growth GatewayThe Boston Consulting Group UK LLP——£108,900,000 †
COAST Component ADAI Global (UK) Limited——£101,100,000 †
Forest Governance, Markets and Climate Phase 2 - Technical Assistance Portfolio Manager (TAPM)Palladium International Limited——£75,000,000 †

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 · 380 of 860 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 94 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 1,218 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Comprehensive Insurance Brokerage Service for British Embassy Abu Dhabi and DubaiInsurance brokerage and agency servicesAwarded / complete29 Sept 2026£2,457,816
PROVISION OF ELECTRICAL MATERIALS TO THE BRITISH HIGH COMMISSION NAIROBIAwarded / complete29 Sept 2026—
Provision of Security Services at Umoja House, British High Commission Staff Residences, Dar es Salaam and the BHC Office, Dodoma, TanzaniaSecurity servicesAwarded / complete29 Sept 2026£1,053,491
Cleaning Services for British Embassy VilniusCleaning servicesAwarded / complete28 Sept 2026£205,840
Educational and Training MaterialsAwarded / complete24 Sept 2026—
CS: CAPEX Vehicle Purchase for the British High Commission in NassauAwarded / complete23 Sept 2026—
Medical Insurance Services TürkiyeInsurance servicesAwarded / complete23 Sept 2026£2,700,000
Medical, Life and Local Staff Workmen Compensation Insurances for British Embassy Beirut2 lotsAccident and health insurance servicesAwarded / complete22 Sept 2026£1,412,696
Medical Aid Insurance for CBS Staff at the British High Commission MaputoMedical insurance servicesPlanning21 Sept 2026£0
Refurbishment of Villa 2 for British Embassy DubaiAwarded / complete21 Sept 2026—
Providing Housekeeping Services to British High Commission & British Deputy High Commissions in India7 lotsHousekeeping servicesAwarded / complete21 Sept 2026£1,230,253
Purchase of Fleet Vehicle for British Embassy MuscatAwarded / complete20 Sept 2026—
Security and Resilience FrameworkFrameworkCivil defence servicesPlanned18 Sept 2026£2,700,000,000
Cleaning and Gardening Services for British Embassy ManamaCleaning servicesPlanning18 Sept 2026£341,755
Bloomberg News SubscriptionAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026—
Private Sector Development Programme in Sierra LeoneForeign economic-aid-related servicesPlanning17 Sept 2026£7,000,000
PROVISION OF UK BASED LANGUAGE TRAININGProvision of language coursesPlanned17 Sept 2026£28,800,000
Framework Agreements for Events Management and Related Services for the British High Commission (New Delhi) and British Deputy High Commissions across India NetworkFramework5 lotsAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026£4,500,000
Facilities Management Services for British Consulate General Jerusalem2 lotsFacilities management servicesAwarded / complete16 Sept 2026£265,899
PA23 UK1 - Syria Education Programme III (SEP III) - Pipeline noticeEducation and training servicesPlanned15 Sept 2026£16,000,000

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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 (£7.3bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 496 award records on 431 procedures (484 to a single canonical supplier, 11 multi-supplier, 1 with no supplier published). 352 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: 380 of 860 published contracts carry a period end; 94 end within 18 months, 38 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (71 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-100417GB-FTS-1006GB-FTS-107759GB-FTS-109940GB-FTS-110656GB-FTS-110758GB-FTS-120330GB-FTS-127280GB-FTS-131GB-FTS-135614GB-FTS-136586GB-FTS-137432GB-FTS-152152GB-FTS-15431GB-FTS-155936GB-FTS-156090GB-FTS-15958GB-FTS-162284GB-FTS-163518GB-FTS-16786GB-FTS-17173GB-FTS-17481GB-FTS-1878GB-FTS-21952

+47 further identifiers not listed here.

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PXRR-8771-PHVX