Northern Ireland Prison Service: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Executive agency·Central government·Northern Ireland·Belfast
Official UK PPONPRMX-2692-MXQX
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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 9 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ID 6636040 - DoJ - NIPS - Supply and Delivery of Challenging Environment Furniture 2026 | 9 Oct 2026 | 9d | £500,000 |
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
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet4 procedures · 29%32 Radio, television, communication3 procedures · 21%64 Postal and telecommunications services3 procedures · 21%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 14% · 1 open39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances2 procedures · 14% · 1 open18 Clothing, footwear, bags2 procedures · 14%15 Food, drink, tobacco1 procedures · 7%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 7%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 · 14 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 100% (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.
- Open 64% (9 notices)
- Direct award 14% (2 notices)
- Selective 14% (2 notices)
- Route not published 7% (1 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 9 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 4 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 14 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 9 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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| Epi-Use Limited | 1 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 19 Mar 2026 |
1 awarded procedures across 1 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
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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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| DoJ – NIPS - Supply and Delivery of General ‘Food to Go’, Sundry Items and Tobacco Items for Tuck Shop 2026 | Withheld Section94 supplier | 9 Jul 2026 | 5 yrs | £16,260,500 ≈ £3.3m/yr |
| ID 5949915 - NIPS Supply and Delivery of Toiletries & Personal Hygiene Items for Stores & Tuck Shop 2025 | Withheld Section94 supplier | 7 Nov 2025 | 5 yrs | £2,150,000 ≈ £430k/yr |
| Lot 2 – section A)TV, Radio, HiFi, DVD and Personal Items section B)Tuck Shop Items | Information withheld for security reasons | — | — | £850,000 † |
| Lot 1 – White Goods | Information withheld for security reasons | — | — | £750,000 † |
| ID 6278672 DoJ DAC 16/25 DoJ - NIPS - SAP Licences - ERP ECC6 Ehp6 | Withheld Section94 supplier | 11 Dec 2025 | 1 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £550,567 ≈ £551k/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 · 6 of 15 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| ID 6278672 DOJ DAC 16/25 DOJ - NIPS - SAP Licenses | Withheld Section94 supplier | 31 Dec 2026 | £550,567 |
Recent procedures
Latest 22 of 22 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| DOJ - 3488088 - NIPS Minor Works Term Service ContractBuilding construction work | Open | 2 Apr 2021 | £45,000,000 |
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 (£122m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 11 award records on 7 procedures (11 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 5 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: 6 of 15 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (8 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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