Secretary of State for the Home Department: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Central governmentNationwide (UK)London

Find a Tender organisation id114174

Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months1-67% vs prior 12 months (3)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot30% single-bid · 3 bid reports
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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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Published award value, 24m£15mnet · on 2 of 3 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
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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 buy
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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

How they buy
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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 · 4 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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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% (4 notices)
Procedure route
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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.

  • Selective 50% (2 notices)
  • Open 25% (1 notices)
  • Route not published 25% (1 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3moderate · n=30% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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 4 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

63 of 4 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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.

Last 24 months.

17.7% above estimateindicative · n=2

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
IBM United Kingdom Limited111.1%1114 Jan 2025
Etherstack Wireless Limited111.1%1116 Oct 2025
THEBIGWORD GROUP LIMITED111.1%112 Dec 2024
MAXIMUS UK SERVICES LIMITED111.1%028 Aug 2023
WHP Telecoms Limitedframework/DPS on 1111.1%0216 Aug 2024
Reed in Partnership Ltd111.1%028 Aug 2023
Palladium International Limited111.1%018 Aug 2023
Mitie Care & Custody Ltd111.1%015 Oct 2021

9 awarded procedures across 17 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£15mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 2 of 3 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Provision of a TETRA/ MCX Interworking Gateway Solution for the Emergency Services Network (ESN)Etherstack Wireless Limited——£14,246,434 †
Contract for the provision of Language Analysis ServicesTHEBIGWORD GROUP LIMITED——£1,151,342 †

Recent procedures

Latest 17 of 17 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Provision of a TETRA/ MCX Interworking Gateway Solution for the Emergency Services Network (ESN)Communication and multimedia software development servicesAwarded / complete16 Oct 2025£17,100,000
Mobile Biometric Enrolment Devices and Associated supportBiometric sensorsPlanned6 Feb 2025—
User Services for Emergency Services Network (ESN)central purchasing bodyAir-to-ground telecommunications servicesAwarded / complete14 Jan 2025£895,000,000
Contract for the provision of Language Analysis ServicesAnalysis servicesAwarded / complete2 Dec 2024—
Contract for the provision of Home Office and Asylum InterviewsCommercial property management servicesAwarded / complete4 Sept 2024—
Modification to Supply of Acquisition, Design and Build Services for Telecoms Mast Base Station Sites for the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme (ESMCP) and Shared Rural Network (SRN)FrameworkConstruction work for buildings relating to emergency servicesAwarded / complete16 Aug 2024£20,000,000
Maritime Capabilities Replacement Programme (MCRP) Intelligent Client FunctionConstruction supervision servicesPlanned10 Jul 2024£15,000,000
Maritime Capabilities Replacement Programme (MCRP)Customs patrol boatsPlanned2 Apr 2024—
Visa and Citizenship Application Services (VCAS) - Lot 45 lotsAdministration servicesAwarded / complete27 Sept 2023£1,200,000,000
N/A9 lotsOther communityAwarded / complete8 Aug 2023—
Heathrow and Derwentside Immigration Removal Centres Procurement2 lotsSecurity servicesAwarded / complete16 Jun 2023—
Provision of the Facilitated Departure Service at Home Office Bridging AccommodationBailiff servicesPlanned17 Mar 2023£250,000
Provision and Support of the 101 Single Non-Emergency Number (101 SNEN)Public-telephone servicesUnsuccessful13 Jul 2022—
Supply of Portable Visual Inspection Devices inclusive of maintenance where applicable.3 lotsLaboratoryPlanned30 Mar 2022£850,000
Contract for the provision of operational, management and maintenance services at Hassockfield (now known as Derwentside) Immigration Removal Centre.Accommodation cleaning servicesAwarded / complete5 Oct 2021—
101 Single Non-Emergency NumberPublic-telephone servicesPlanned11 Aug 2021£50,000,000
NCDS Support Service ContractComputer audit consultancy and hardware consultancy servicesPlanned26 Mar 2021£32,000,000

Search all 17 procedures for this authority →

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 (£1.0bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 3 award records on 3 procedures (3 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 2 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: 4 of 20 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (16 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-10396GB-FTS-121765GB-FTS-134974GB-FTS-137274GB-FTS-164137GB-FTS-21020GB-FTS-25303GB-FTS-3035GB-FTS-35540GB-FTS-37215GB-FTS-38568GB-FTS-46266GB-FTS-7343GB-FTS-85459GB-FTS-93026GB-FTS-93030

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-114174