Low Pay Commission: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
73 Research and development services16 procedures · 145%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 11 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
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Contract100%(11 notices)
11 of 11 notices are Contract (100%).
Procedure route
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Open100%(11 notices)
11 of 11 notices are Open (100%).
Notice amendments
17 of 11 notices amendedi
Based on 11 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
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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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| LONDON ECONOMICS | 2 | 28.6% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Lancaster University | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | — |
| YOUGOV PLC | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Survation Ltd | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | — |
| University of the West of England Bristol | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Smart Data Foundry | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | — |
7 awarded procedures across 6 suppliers: too few to describe concentration.
Published award value (24m)
£320kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 7 of 7 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 84%.i
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
£39k middle valuerobust · n=7Middle half £30k–£60k.i
Largest published awards i | 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 |
| Survey-based research on workers' experiences of low-paid work | Survation Ltd | — | 1.3 yrs · up to 1.8 yrs | £47,000 † ≈ £38k/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 |
Contracts endingi
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7 of 7 contracts carry an end date · 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 |
| Impact of the minimum wage on prices and profits in the early years sector | LONDON ECONOMICS | 30 Sept 2027 | £25,239 |
| The impact of the minimum wage on productivity (longer-term projects) | University of the West of England Bristol | 31 Dec 2027 | £75,052 |
| Survey-based research on workers' experiences of low-paid work | Survation Ltd | 31 Dec 2027 | £47,000 |
| Employment effects of the National Living Wage | Smart Data Foundry | 30 Mar 2028 | £73,116 |
Recent procedures
Latest 11 of 11 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Research relating to the impacts of the minimum wage, 1-year projectsResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 3 Nov 2026 | £60,000 |
| Survey-based research on workers' experiences of low-paid workResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 3 Nov 2026 | £50,000 |
| Research relating to the impacts of the minimum wage, 2-year projects (open call)Research and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 13 Jul 2026 | £100,000 |
| 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 |
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Contracts Finder adds 5 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.
About this data
- 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. 7 of 7 published contracts have an end date; 0 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.