National Oceanography Centre: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)·South East England·Southampton
Official UK PPONPYLV-3456-PMCQ
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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.
131 awarded tenders, 95 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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
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 · 1%71 Architectural, construction, engineering2 procedures · 1%34 Transport equipment and products1 procedures · 1%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 1%51 Installation services (except software)1 procedures · 1%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 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 · 134 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.
Contract99%(133 notices)
133 of 134 notices are Contract (99%).Framework1%(1 notices)
1 of 134 notices are Framework (1%).
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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 award63%(85 notices)
85 of 134 notices are Direct award (63%).Limited / restricted28%(37 notices)
37 of 134 notices are Limited / restricted (28%).Route not published6%(8 notices)
8 of 134 notices are Route not published (6%).Open3%(4 notices)
4 of 134 notices are Open (3%).
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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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 134 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 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| Planet Ocean Ltd | 8 | 6.1% | 8 | 9 | — |
| Saderet Limited | 5 | 3.8% | 5 | 5 | — |
| Standard Fuel Oils Ltd | 4 | 3.1% | 4 | 4 | 22 Sept 2026 |
| Nortek Instruments Limited | 4 | 3.1% | 4 | 4 | — |
| ADAMS PRECISION HYDRAULICS LIMITED | 4 | 3.1% | 4 | 4 | — |
| Teledyne Instruments Inc. d/b/a Teledyne Webb Research | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 5 | 26 Feb 2026 |
| ARB Mechanical Engineering Ltd | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 3 | — |
| A&A Business Supplies | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 3 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 131 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 95 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Published end dates only · 128 of 129 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 61 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 141 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- 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. 128 of 129 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.