Intellectual Property Office: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
30 awarded tenders, 26 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet6 procedures · 17%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 11%80 Education and training services3 procedures · 9%32 Radio, television, communication1 procedures · 3%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 3%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 3%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting1 procedures · 3%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 · 35 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 94% (33 notices)
- Framework 6% (2 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.
- Direct award 49% (17 notices)
- Open 20% (7 notices)
- Route not published 17% (6 notices)
- Limited / restricted 9% (3 notices)
- Selective 6% (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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
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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 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| NLA Media Access Limited | 3 | 10% | 3 | 3 | 28 Jul 2026 |
| Mintel Group Ltd | 2 | 6.7% | 1 | 2 | 8 Dec 2025 |
| Empyrean Digital Limited | 2 | 6.7% | 0 | 2 | 14 May 2024 |
| Daisy Communications Limited | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 2 | 15 Apr 2026 |
| INVESTORS IN PEOPLE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 1 | 4 Sept 2026 |
| Home Office | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 1 | 4 Aug 2026 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 1 | 27 Jan 2026 |
| Lansons Communications Holdings Limited | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 1 | 9 May 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 23% of 30 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 26 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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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.
Largest published awards iThe 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. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Law Enforcement Community Network (LECN) | Home Office | 4 Aug 2026 | 4.8 yrs | £870,698 ≈ £180k/yr |
| Provision of Certificate/Diploma in Law and Intellectual Property (DipLIP) | USW Commercial Services Ltd | — | 4 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £527,950 † ≈ £132k/yr |
| Westlaw subscription | Thomson Reuters | — | 3 yrs | £284,450 † ≈ £95k/yr |
| Mintel Databases (25-26) | Mintel Group Ltd | — | 1.9 yrs | £150,326 † ≈ £78k/yr |
| Provision of Kofax Maintenance & TM10 FileNet | Open Connections Solutions Ltd | 18 Dec 2025 | 3 yrs | £99,000 ≈ £33k/yr |
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 · 20 of 29 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Global Trademark & Patent Cases (Darts IP) | Frontier Economics | 31 Oct 2026 | €18,316 |
| Complete Freedom Collection | Jisc | 31 Dec 2026 | £19,868 |
| Investors in People Accreditation | INVESTORS IN PEOPLE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY | 28 Feb 2027 | £23,300 |
| Provision of IP Related Intelligence 2025-27 | Treble 5 Treble 1 Limited | 31 Mar 2027 | £62,240 |
| NLA Media Access Licence | NLA Media Access Limited | 30 Jun 2027 | £29,822 |
| Mintel Databases | Mintel Group Ltd | 31 Oct 2027 | £150,326 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | Royal Society of Chemistry | 10 Nov 2027 | £13,350 |
| Provision of Mobile Telecoms Services | Daisy Communications Limited | 28 Feb 2028 | £49,291 |
Recent procedures
Latest 44 of 44 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Provision of Accessibility Auditor Training | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Law Enforcement Community Network (LECN) | Awarded / complete | 8 Sept 2026 | — |
| Investors in People Accreditation | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2026 | — |
| Provision of Microsoft EA & AzureSoftware package and information systems | Planned | 14 Aug 2026 | £19,000,000 |
| NLA Media Access (26/27) | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | — |
| Provision of a Data Delivery Partner for the OneIPO Transformation Programme | Awarded / complete | 17 Jul 2026 | — |
| Procurement/Contract Think Kit - KS3 - KS4 Resource UpdateEducation and training services | Open | 15 Jul 2026 | £16,667 |
| Provision of Certificate/Diploma in Law and Intellectual Property (DipLIP) | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2026 | — |
| AI Patent Search ToolPatent and copyright consultancy services | Planning | 7 Jul 2026 | — |
| Provision of Organisational Health Strategic Advisory | Awarded / complete | 7 May 2026 | — |
| Managed CCTV, ANPR and Radar Services (Including Maintenance, Support and Lifecycle Management)Closed circuit television services | Planning | 30 Apr 2026 | — |
| RFI for Provision of IT Service ManagementHelpdesk and support services | Planning | 27 Apr 2026 | £500,000 |
| Provision of Mobile Telecoms ServicesMobile telephones | Awarded / complete | 15 Apr 2026 | £120,000 |
| Provision of Accessibility Auditor TrainingSpecialist training services | Open | 2 Apr 2026 | £20,000 |
| Provision of Accessibility Auditor TrainingComputer training services | Planning | 16 Mar 2026 | £20,000 |
| Phase 2 One IPO Transformation Programme - Request for InformationIT services: consulting | Planning | 2 Mar 2026 | £25,000,000 |
| Provision of Work day Implementation PartnerSoftware programming and consultancy services | Planning | 3 Feb 2026 | £3,000,000 |
| Kofax Maintenance & TM10 FileNetMaintenance of information technology software | Awarded / complete | 28 Jan 2026 | £111,000 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry – Journal Articles (25-26) | Awarded / complete | 27 Jan 2026 | — |
| Complete Freedom Collection | Awarded / complete | 27 Jan 2026 | — |
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 (£27m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 24 award records on 23 procedures (24 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 17 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: 20 of 29 published contracts carry a period end; 8 end within 18 months, 3 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (1 historical Find a Tender publication identifier)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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