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Find a Tender organisation id103990

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 months1-75% vs prior 12 months (4)
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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 lot425% single-bid · 4 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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share30%of 10 awarded procedures · 22 suppliers
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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.

10 awarded tenders, 22 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£150mnet · on 5 of 7 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 · 5 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.

  • Framework 60% (3 notices)
  • Contract 40% (2 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.

  • Open 80% (4 notices)
  • Selective 20% (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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4moderate · n=425% 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 5 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

45 of 5 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 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimatemoderate · n=3

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
ARAMARK IRELAND HOLDINGS LTD110%1326 Feb 2025
Esri Ireland Ltd.110%1217 Sept 2026
Cyber Guarded Ltdframework/DPS on 1110%1127 Sept 2024
TES-AMM UK LTDframework/DPS on 1110%114 Apr 2025
Vyta Secure Ltdframework/DPS on 1110%114 Apr 2025
Sonet Communicationsframework/DPS on 1110%114 Apr 2025
Avenue Recycling Ltdframework/DPS on 1110%114 Apr 2025
NCC Group Security Services Limitedframework/DPS on 1110%1127 Sept 2024

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 30% of 10 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 22 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

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.

£150mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 5 of 7 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£32m middle valuerobust · n=5Middle half £25m–£38m.
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
ID 4360110 - DoF - LPS - PROVISION OF ARCGIS LICENCING, SERVICES AND TRAININGEsri Ireland Ltd.——£42,118,313 †
ContractEsri Ireland Ltd.——£38,284,992 †
Lot 1ARAMARK IRELAND HOLDINGS LTD——£31,500,000 †
Lot 2ARAMARK IRELAND HOLDINGS LTD——£24,500,000 †
Lot 3ARAMARK IRELAND HOLDINGS LTD——£14,000,000 †

Recent procedures

Latest 11 of 11 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
ID 4360110 - DoF - LPS - PROVISION OF ARCGIS LICENCING, SERVICES AND TRAININGComputer-related professional servicesAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026£35,000,000
ID 5590036 - DoF - IT Assist - FRAMEWORK FOR DISPOSAL SERVICES FOR IT EQUIPMENT, ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENTFrameworkComputer equipment and suppliesAwarded / complete4 Apr 2025£250,000
Collaborative Framework for the Maintenance and Supply of Portable Fire Fighting Equipment and Associated Services Lot 1 and Lot 2Frameworkcentral purchasing body2 lotsFirefightingAwarded / complete28 Feb 2025—
ID 5067401 - DoF - The Provision of Cleaning Services to the Northern Ireland Civil Service and Participating Bodiescentral purchasing body3 lotsCleaning servicesAwarded / complete26 Feb 2025£70,000,000
ID 4600551 - DoF - Framework Agreement for the Provision of Independent Assurance Reviewer for GovAssureFrameworkComputer-related professional servicesAwarded / complete27 Sept 2024—
ID 4901529 - DoF - IT Assist - ICT Disposal FrameworkFrameworkComputer equipment and suppliesOpen21 May 2024£250,000
ID 5027710 - DoF - Collaborative Grounds Maintenancecentral purchasing body3 lotsGrounds maintenance servicesAwarded / complete16 Apr 2024—
ID 4877324 - The Provision of Dry Recycling Services to the Northern Ireland Public Sectorcentral purchasing bodyNon-hazardous refuse and waste treatment and disposal servicesAwarded / complete19 Oct 2023£1,750,000
ID 3899649 - Framework for the Supply, Delivery and Installation of Office Furniture to the Northern Ireland Public SectorFrameworkcentral purchasing body2 lotsComputer furnitureAwarded / complete4 Oct 2023—
DoF - ESS - DSS - Provision of Digital Resources and Servicescentral purchasing body2 lotsComputer audit and testing servicesAwarded / complete24 Aug 2022—
ID 3534429 - DoF - Purchase of patching product for non-Microsoft products on desktop clientscentral purchasing bodyIT services: consultingAwarded / complete18 Jan 2022—

Search all 11 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 (£107m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 9 award records on 5 procedures (7 to a single canonical supplier, 2 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: 0 of 18 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 (5 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-FTS-111017GB-FTS-125946GB-FTS-41233GB-FTS-53155GB-FTS-94129

Canonical page id: GB-FTS-103990