Invest Northern Ireland: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: OtherCentral governmentNorthern IrelandBELFAST

Official UK PPONPLTC-4224-XGDP

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

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 15 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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  • Contract67%(10 notices)
    10 of 15 notices are Contract (67%).
  • Framework33%(5 notices)
    5 of 15 notices are Framework (33%).
Procedure route
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  • Open73%(11 notices)
    11 of 15 notices are Open (73%).
  • Route not published27%(4 notices)
    4 of 15 notices are Route not published (27%).
Typical bids per lot
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Based on 9 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

3robust · n=922.2% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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Based on 7 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

65 daysrobust · n=7
Notice amendments
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Based on 15 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

111 of 15 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Based on 4 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

0% at estimatemoderate · n=4

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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
KPMGframework/DPS on 349.3%04—
Cleaver Fulton Rankinframework/DPS on 337%1185 Dec 2025
CORE CONSULTING BUSINESS GROWTH ADVISORS LTDframework/DPS on 137%19—
GRANT THORNTON NI LLPframework/DPS on 337%136 Aug 2026
Sumer Accountants NI Ltdframework/DPS on 137%03—
Carson McDowell LLPframework/DPS on 224.7%175 Dec 2025
Cogent Management Consulting LLPframework/DPS on 224.7%156 Aug 2026
JNM Exhibition Servicesframework/DPS on 224.7%1411 Dec 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 43 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 108 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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£11mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 8 of 8 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 95%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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£433k middle valuerobust · n=8Middle half £240k–£1.8m.
Largest published awards
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SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
ID 6262347 - DFE - Invest NI - Event Management ServicesEVENT-FUL CONSULTANCY LTD8 Jul 20262 yrs · up to 5 yrs£6,000,000
≈ £3.0m/yr
DfE - Invest NI - Provision of NI Green Economy IntelligenceOve Arup & Partners Ltd18 Aug 20253 yrs · up to 5 yrs£2,083,333
≈ £694k/yr
ContractINTERNATIONAL SYNERGIES NORTHERN IRELAND LTD——£1,643,118 †
ContractCORE CONSULTING BUSINESS GROWTH ADVISORS LTD——£485,000 †
ContractUniversity of Ulster Business Institute——£381,200 †

Contracts ending
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79 of 96 contracts carry an end date, 58 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 53 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
ID 5050091 - DfE - Invest NI - Provision of PR and Media Relations Services in India, Middle East and Africa (IMEA) RegionPublic relations consultancy servicesAwarded / complete31 May 2024£400,000
ID 5214618 DFE - INVEST NI - FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT MARKET INTELLIGENCE TOOL AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT LOCATION BENCHMARKING TOOLcentral purchasing body2 lotsData analysis servicesAwarded / complete15 Mar 2024£500,000
ID 5166959 DfE - Invest NI - Provision of Advice and Guidance on NI's Dual Market Access FrameworkFrameworkcentral purchasing body2 lotsBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete14 Mar 2024£200,000
ID 4880468 DfE - InvestNI - Leading within a Group Programmecentral purchasing body2 lotsAdult-education services at university levelAwarded / complete29 Feb 2024£1,050,000
ID 4944997 DfE - Invest NI - Commercial Appraisal Framework AgreementFrameworkcentral purchasing bodyBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete26 Feb 2024£825,906
DfE - Invest NI - Appointment of Auditors for BSDLAccounting and auditing servicesAwarded / complete13 Feb 2024£200,000
DfE - Invest NI - Design, Management and Delivery of the Accelerator Programmecentral purchasing bodyDevelopment consultancy servicesAwarded / complete8 Feb 2024£2,540,000
ID 4880534 DfE - Invest NI - Leadership Coaching and International Sales Leadership Pilotcentral purchasing bodyManagement training servicesAwarded / complete31 Jan 2024£1,345,000
ID 4939800 DfE - Invest NI - Sales Deliverability Appraisal FrameworkFrameworkcentral purchasing bodyBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete10 Jan 2024£490,000
ID 4696443 - DfE- Invest NI - Provision of Drupal Servicescentral purchasing bodyIT services: consultingAwarded / complete10 Jan 2024£1,666,666
ID 4968205 DfE - Invest NI - Provision of Advice and Guidance on NI's Dual Market Access FrameworkFrameworkcentral purchasing body2 lotsBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesCancelled10 Jan 2024£200,000
ID 4842165 DfE- Invest NI - Drupal CMS Support, Maintenance and Development - Pre Market Engagementcentral purchasing bodyIT services: consultingPlanned22 May 2023—
ID 4466524 - DfE - Invest NI Brand Design and Media Services2 lotsAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete9 May 2023£12,000,000
DAC 5/21 - DfE - Invest NI - Oracle Licence Support contractcentral purchasing bodyIT services: consultingAwarded / complete18 Apr 2023—
ID 3083890 Invest NI - Provision of Oracle ERP/Iaas Managed Support ContractIT services: consultingAwarded / complete25 Nov 2022—
DfE - Invest NI – Design Consultants FrameworkFramework4 lotsBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete28 Sept 2022—
DfE - Invest NI - FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR CLIENT FACING STAFFcentral purchasing bodyBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete1 Sept 2022£600,000
DfE Invest NI - Provision of Trade Advisory Services in GB and RoIcentral purchasing body9 lotsAdministrationAwarded / complete31 May 2022£2,900,000
DfE Invest NI - Economic Services Framework AgreementFramework2 lotsBusiness and management consultancy servicesAwarded / complete25 Apr 2022—
ID3781692 DfE - Invest NI - Provision of a Legal Services Framework AgreementFramework12 lotsCertification servicesAwarded / complete12 Apr 2022£3,000,000

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  • 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. 79 of 96 published contracts have an end date; 58 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.