National Oceanography Centre: 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 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.
125 awarded tenders, 92 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.
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
50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 2%38 Laboratory, optical and precision2 procedures · 2%71 Architectural, construction, engineering2 procedures · 2%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 2%34 Transport equipment and products1 procedures · 1%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 1%51 Installation services (except software)1 procedures · 1%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 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 · 130 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 99% (129 notices)
- Framework 1% (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.
- Direct award 64% (83 notices)
- Limited / restricted 26% (34 notices)
- Route not published 6% (8 notices)
- Open 4% (5 notices)
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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| Planet Ocean Ltd | 8 | 6.4% | 8 | 9 | 16 Sept 2026 |
| Saderet Limited | 5 | 4% | 5 | 5 | 29 Jul 2026 |
| Teledyne Instruments Inc. d/b/a Teledyne Webb Research | 3 | 2.4% | 3 | 5 | 26 Feb 2026 |
| Standard Fuel Oils Ltd | 3 | 2.4% | 3 | 3 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| ARB Mechanical Engineering Ltd | 3 | 2.4% | 3 | 3 | 25 Feb 2026 |
| Nortek Instruments Limited | 3 | 2.4% | 3 | 3 | 25 Feb 2026 |
| A&A Business Supplies | 3 | 2.4% | 3 | 3 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| ADAMS PRECISION HYDRAULICS LIMITED | 3 | 2.4% | 3 | 3 | 23 Mar 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 125 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 92 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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| NOC Research Vessel Dry-Dock Refit and Maintenance Contract 2026 | A & P Falmouth Limited | 9 Dec 2025 | 1 yrs · up to 2 yrs | £2,500,000 ≈ £2.5m/yr |
| Chilled Water Main Chillers Replacement | ARB Mechanical Engineering Ltd | — | 1 yrs | £627,185 † ≈ £627k/yr |
| RRS James Cook Refit Contract 2025 | Damen Shipyards | 19 Mar 2025 | 1 mo | £572,188 |
| Project Guppy | D M HABENS (THE BUILDER) LTD | — | 5 mo | £454,480 † |
| Provision of Ocean Bottom Seismometers | GURALP SYSTEMS LIMITED | 9 Oct 2025 | 1.4 yrs · up to 5.4 yrs | £450,000 ≈ £318k/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 · 127 of 128 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Provision for Remote Diagnostics and Technical Support for NOC Vessels | SIEMENS ENERGY LIMITED | 30 Sept 2026 | NOK 350,000 |
| Provision of Executive Search Recruitment Services | TML PARTNERS LTD | 1 Oct 2026 | £25,000 |
| Provision of Thruster Overhaul Components for the RSS James Cook | UK Docks Marine Services North Ltd | 1 Oct 2026 | £170,852 |
| Provision of Hydrographic PH Sensors | Planet Ocean Ltd | 2 Oct 2026 | US$34,537 |
| Provision of Acoustic Data Modems | Sonardyne International Ltd | 2 Oct 2026 | £41,542 |
| Provision of a Political Monitoring Service | DODS GROUP LIMITED | 15 Oct 2026 | £41,400 |
| Canteen Ceiling Acoustic Panels & Light Replacement | MJG Mechanical Services Limited | 16 Oct 2026 | £231,738 |
| Lithium Battery Storage Containers | S JONES CONTAINERS LIMITED | 28 Oct 2026 | £159,672 |
| Provision of an Socio-Economic Impact Assessment | SQW Limited | 30 Oct 2026 | £49,925 |
| Provision of Acoustic Current Doppler Profilers at 300kHz | Saderet Limited | 31 Oct 2026 | £31,698 |
Soonest 10 of 62 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 136 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 (£7.5m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 128 award records on 125 procedures (128 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 69 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 31 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- Contract end dates: 127 of 128 published contracts carry a period end; 62 end within 18 months, 45 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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