Ministry of Justice: 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 62 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.
555 awarded tenders, 537 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biomass Boiler System for Prison Industries Workshop at HMP The Verne | 2 Oct 2026 | 2d | £350,000 |
| Woodmill LEV System for Prison Industries Workshop at HMP Sudbury | 16 Oct 2026 | 16d | £250,000 |
| Minor Works - Dynamic Purchasing System | 7 Sept 2029 | 1073d | £590,000,000 |
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
75 Administration, defence and social security71 procedures · 16%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting42 procedures · 9%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet25 procedures · 5%80 Education and training services18 procedures · 4%66 Financial and insurance services16 procedures · 4%48 Software package and information systems14 procedures · 3%85 Health and social work services14 procedures · 3%42 Industrial machinery11 procedures · 2% · 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 · 456 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 93% (422 notices)
- Framework 7% (33 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 0% (1 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.
- Limited / restricted 27% (123 notices)
- Route not published 23% (105 notices)
- Direct award 21% (98 notices)
- Open 14% (65 notices)
- Selective 14% (65 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 62 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 21 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 457 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 31 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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| G & J Wood Machinery Ltd | 23 | 4.1% | 23 | 23 | 25 Sept 2026 |
| Ingeus UK Limited | 13 | 2.3% | 3 | 29 | 14 Aug 2025 |
| Scott & Sargeant Woodworking Machinery Ltd | 11 | 2% | 11 | 11 | 20 Feb 2026 |
| ASSA ABLOY GLOBAL SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED T/A Traka | 9 | 1.6% | 8 | 10 | 3 Sept 2026 |
| St Giles Wise Group Partnership | 9 | 1.6% | 0 | 23 | 4 Jan 2024 |
| Glendale Presentation Solutions Ltd | 8 | 1.4% | 8 | 8 | 7 Jul 2026 |
| Ministry of Justice | 7 | 1.3% | 0 | 7 | 10 Jan 2024 |
| The Forward Trust | 6 | 1.1% | 2 | 15 | 26 Nov 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 555 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 537 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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| Supply of Prisoner and Non-Prisoner Food | BFS GROUP LIMITED | — | — | £826,730,000 † |
| Extension to Prison TFM - Work Package E - Modification Notice | Amey Community Ltd | — | — | £514,663,000 † |
| Prison Operator Services - HMP Dovegate | Serco Limited | — | — | £447,000,000 † |
| Extension to Prison TFM - Work Package E - Modification Notice | Amey Community Ltd | — | — | £430,984,000 † |
| Extension to Prison TFM - Work Package F - Modification Notice | Amey Community Ltd | — | — | £428,683,000 † |
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 · 305 of 938 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 85 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 881 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 (£22bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 391 award records on 312 procedures (380 to a single canonical supplier, 11 multi-supplier). 219 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: 305 of 938 published contracts carry a period end; 85 end within 18 months, 29 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (26 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
+2 further identifiers not listed here.
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