Met 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 12 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.
329 awarded tenders, 269 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
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Land Observations Networks Modems and Sims - Re-tender | 5 Oct 2026 | 5d | £208,333 |
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, internet9 procedures · 3% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems8 procedures · 2%34 Transport equipment and products4 procedures · 1%38 Laboratory, optical and precision4 procedures · 1%32 Radio, television, communication3 procedures · 1% · 1 open73 Research and development services3 procedures · 1%80 Education and training services3 procedures · 1%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 1%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 · 329 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 96% (315 notices)
- Framework 4% (14 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 67% (220 notices)
- Limited / restricted 12% (41 notices)
- Route not published 9% (31 notices)
- Open 7% (23 notices)
- Selective 4% (14 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 12 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 16 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 330 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 11 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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| Computacenter (UK) Ltd | 11 | 3.3% | 10 | 12 | 17 Jul 2026 |
| Campbell Scientific Limited | 8 | 2.4% | 8 | 8 | 21 Apr 2026 |
| University of Exeter | 8 | 2.4% | 7 | 20 | 16 Sept 2026 |
| IBM Group | 7 | 2.1% | 7 | 8 | 7 Sept 2026 |
| boxxe Limited | 7 | 2.1% | 7 | 7 | 6 Aug 2026 |
| IBM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED | 6 | 1.8% | 6 | 7 | 5 Nov 2025 |
| GRS Building Services South-West | 5 | 1.5% | 5 | 5 | 29 Jan 2026 |
| UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY | 5 | 1.5% | 5 | 5 | 15 Jun 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 329 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 269 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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| Space Weather Delivery Partner | CACI Ltd | 12 Dec 2025 | 5 yrs · up to 7.1 yrs | £15,000,000 ≈ £3.0m/yr |
| Data as a Service Capability | Synoptic Data PBC | 18 Nov 2025 | 2 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £1,125,598 ≈ £563k/yr |
| Procurement for the redevelopment of EUMETNET observations data hubs and ongoing support on behalf of the Met Office | Synoptic Data PBC | 29 May 2026 | 2.8 yrs · up to 7.5 yrs | £744,515 ≈ £271k/yr |
| Lot 1 - England | Nurture Landscapes Ltd | 24 Nov 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £618,527 ≈ £206k/yr |
| Lot 2 - Scotland | OUTCO Ltd | 24 Nov 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £516,443 ≈ £172k/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 · 330 of 363 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| ArcGIS software 2025/26 | ESRI (UK) Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £144,670 |
| Executive coaching 2025/26 | Minerva Imagines Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £96,300 |
| Exeter Uni Masters Qualification | University of Exeter | 30 Sept 2026 | £11,875 |
| UK Public Weather Panel | HOPKINSVAN MIL | 30 Sept 2026 | £61,941 |
| BCS annual membership 25-26 | BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT | 30 Sept 2026 | £15,700 |
| Implementation of FAB in Momentum Simulation Systems | BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY | 30 Sept 2026 | £90,000 |
| Development of extended AMM7 configuration for UKCI regional ocean modelling | National Oceanography Centre | 30 Sept 2026 | £126,080 |
| MASS HPSS Software Support 2026 | IBM Group | 30 Sept 2026 | £248,820 |
| MASS HPSS Software Support 2026 | IBM Group | 30 Sept 2026 | £248,820 |
| MASS Library Solution Support 2026 | Oracle Corporation UK Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £240,115 |
Soonest 10 of 106 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 360 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 (£56m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 339 award records on 305 procedures (315 to a single canonical supplier, 24 multi-supplier). 213 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: 330 of 363 published contracts carry a period end; 106 end within 18 months, 46 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (4 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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