Kent County Council (t/a Procurement Services): Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Private Limited Company·NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY·ONS register: County-or-unitary-authority·NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACY·Local authority·South East England·West Malling·Ran 18 procurements for other authorities·Central purchasing body on 16 of 125 notices
Official UK PPONPYCX-4938-CCHM
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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 28 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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, 611 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.
Open notices
3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Replacement Contract Management, Billing and Invoicing System | 6 Oct 2026 | 6d | £600,000 |
| Connect2Framework for Umbrella Company Services to the Public Sector | 16 Oct 2026 | 16d | £90,000,000 |
| ICT Products, Solutions and Services | Not published | No deadline | — |
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting37 procedures · 30% · 1 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet22 procedures · 18% · 2 open45 Construction work18 procedures · 14%48 Software package and information systems14 procedures · 11% · 2 open34 Transport equipment and products14 procedures · 11%30 Office and computing machinery12 procedures · 10% · 1 open44 Construction structures and materials12 procedures · 10%50 Repair and maintenance services12 procedures · 10%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 · 125 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.
- Framework 54% (67 notices)
- Contract 43% (54 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 3% (4 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.
- Open 35% (44 notices)
- Route not published 34% (42 notices)
- Selective 25% (31 notices)
- Direct award 3% (4 notices)
- Limited / restricted 3% (4 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 28 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
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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 125 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 5 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| Sharp Business UK PLC | 15 | 20% | 15 | 15 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| Ricoh UK Ltd | 7 | 9.3% | 6 | 9 | 16 Sept 2026 |
| Kyocera Document Solutions (UK) Limited | 5 | 6.7% | 5 | 6 | 29 Sept 2026 |
| Capita Business Services Ltd | 4 | 5.3% | 4 | 5 | 23 Mar 2026 |
| The DMS Digital Group (DMS) | 4 | 5.3% | 3 | 4 | 4 Jun 2026 |
| Insight Systems ltd | 3 | 4% | 3 | 4 | 9 Sept 2026 |
| Specialist Computer Centres Plc | 3 | 4% | 3 | 4 | 12 Aug 2026 |
| The DMS Digital Group Limited | 3 | 4% | 3 | 4 | 11 Aug 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 35% of 75 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 611 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.
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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| Microsoft Approved UK Distributor | TD Synnex UK Limited | 18 Jun 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £7,000,000 ≈ £2.3m/yr |
| Microsoft Premier Support | Microsoft Ltd | — | 11 mo | £134,105 † |
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 · 52 of 178 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Provision of Virtual CISO Review | Evolve North Ltd | 27 Nov 2026 | £30,474 |
| Microsoft Premier Support | Microsoft Ltd | 12 May 2027 | £134,105 |
| Provision of Virtual CISO | Evolve North Ltd | 27 May 2027 | £54,492 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 144 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£11m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 142 award records on 64 procedures (55 to a single canonical supplier, 86 multi-supplier, 1 with no supplier published). 1 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 33 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- 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: 52 of 178 published contracts carry a period end; 3 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (15 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PYCX-4938-CCHM