Low Pay Commission: 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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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
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Research relating to the impacts of the minimum wage, 2-year projects (open call) | 27 Oct 2026 | 27d | £100,000 |
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
73 Research and development services11 procedures · 100% · 1 openHow 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 · 11 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 100% (11 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 100% (11 notices)
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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 11 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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| Lancaster University | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | 8 Apr 2026 |
| YOUGOV PLC | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | 27 Oct 2025 |
| University of the West of England Bristol | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | 8 Apr 2026 |
| Smart Data Foundry | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | 8 Apr 2026 |
| LONDON ECONOMICS | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | 8 Apr 2026 |
5 awarded procedures across 5 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
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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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| The impact of the minimum wage on productivity (longer-term projects) | University of the West of England Bristol | — | 1.8 yrs | £75,052 † ≈ £43k/yr |
| Employment effects of the National Living Wage | Smart Data Foundry | — | 2.1 yrs | £73,116 † ≈ £35k/yr |
| Open Call for research relating to the National Minimum Wage including National Living Wage | LONDON ECONOMICS | — | 10 mo | £39,255 † |
| Research into young people's experience of the labour market and minimum wages | Lancaster University | — | 1 yrs | £34,968 † ≈ £35k/yr |
| Low Pay Commission call for research on workers' experiences of low-paid work | YOUGOV PLC | — | 7 mo | £24,895 † |
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 · 5 of 5 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Open Call for research relating to the National Minimum Wage including National Living Wage | LONDON ECONOMICS | 31 Dec 2026 | £39,255 |
| Research into young people's experience of the labour market and minimum wages | Lancaster University | 30 Mar 2027 | £34,968 |
| The impact of the minimum wage on productivity (longer-term projects) | University of the West of England Bristol | 31 Dec 2027 | £75,052 |
Recent procedures
Latest 11 of 11 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Research relating to the impacts of the minimum wage, 1-year projects (open call)Research and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 13 Jul 2026 | £60,000 |
| Survey-based research on workers' experiences of low-paid workResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 13 Jul 2026 | £50,000 |
| The impact of the minimum wage on productivity (longer-term projects)Research and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2026 | £80,000 |
| Employment effects of the National Living WageResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2026 | £80,000 |
| Open Call for research relating to the National Minimum Wage including National Living WageResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2026 | £45,000 |
| Research into young people's experience of the labour market and minimum wagesResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2026 | £35,000 |
| Research related to the youth and apprentice rates of the minimum wage (2-year projects)Research and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 19 Dec 2025 | £80,000 |
| Research relating to the Apprentice Rate of the minimum wageResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 19 Dec 2025 | £40,000 |
| Quantitative research into the impacts of recent increases in the youth rates of the UK minimum wageResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 19 Dec 2025 | £40,000 |
| Low Pay Commission call for research on workers' experiences of low-paid workResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 27 Oct 2025 | £25,000 |
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 (£635k, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 5 award records on 5 procedures (5 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 5 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: 5 of 5 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”.