The National Archives: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

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What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 80 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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  • Contract100%(80 notices)
    80 of 80 notices are Contract (100%).
Procedure route
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  • Direct award64%(51 notices)
    51 of 80 notices are Direct award (64%).
  • Limited / restricted16%(13 notices)
    13 of 80 notices are Limited / restricted (16%).
  • Open14%(11 notices)
    11 of 80 notices are Open (14%).
  • Route not published6%(5 notices)
    5 of 80 notices are Route not published (6%).
Typical bids per lot
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Based on 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

3robust · n=520% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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Based on 6 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

74 daysrobust · n=6
Notice amendments
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Based on 80 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

07 of 80 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Based on 5 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=5

Who wins here
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All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
ZAIZI LTD163.1%81615 Jun 2026
Torchbox Ltd112.1%4111 Dec 2025
The Dextrous Web Ltd101.9%41013 Mar 2026
Numiko Ltd91.7%3918 May 2026
BECHTLE LIMITED81.5%383 Nov 2026
Phoenix Software Ltd71.3%3714 Apr 2025
The Stationery Office71.3%2728 Jul 2025
Genus IT Limited71.3%1720 Aug 2024

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 522 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 296 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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£7.7mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 71 of 71 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 73%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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£21k middle valuerobust · n=71Middle half £16k–£43k.
Largest published awards
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SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Find Case Law Public Beta DevelopmentThe Dextrous Web Ltd13 Mar 20262 yrs · up to 3 yrs£2,875,000
≈ £1.4m/yr
Legal Document Toolkit DevelopmentVenturebright Ltd7 Aug 20263 yrs · up to 5 yrs£1,666,667
≈ £556k/yr
Building Services Call Off ContractDSSR Ltd11 Jul 20253 yrs · up to 5 yrs£500,000
≈ £167k/yr
RICHES WorksKomfort Services ltd—2 mo£377,981 †
SUPPLY OF MACRO X-RAY FLUORESCENCE (MA-XRF) SYSTEMBlueScientific Ltd4 Nov 20254 mo£168,678

Contracts ending
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532 of 533 contracts carry an end date, 14 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 72 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 106 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Keepit LicencesAwarded / complete3 Nov 2026—
LEGISLATION PRINT PUBLISHING CONTRACTPrinting and related servicesOpen19 Oct 2026£3,500,000
Showcase Alarms and MonitorsAwarded / complete12 Oct 2026—
Legal Document Toolkit DevelopmentResearch and development consultancy servicesAwarded / complete3 Sept 2026£1,666,666
Specops LicencesAwarded / complete19 Aug 2026—
LEGISLATION PLATFORM CONTRACTInformation technology servicesOpen14 Aug 2026£8,500,000
Contingent LabourAwarded / complete17 Jul 2026—
Ticketing & Online Shop platform consultancyAwarded / complete17 Jul 2026—
Gym Service ProvisionAwarded / complete17 Jul 2026—
Sustainability Data Management & ReportingAwarded / complete13 Jul 2026—
One Identity LicencesAwarded / complete1 Jul 2026—
NLA Media Access License 2026-2027Awarded / complete1 Jul 2026—
Minor Works for the Revolution 250 ExhibitionAwarded / complete27 May 2026—
Evaluation of the Archives Revealed Funding Programme 2026 - 2029Evaluation consultancy servicesAwarded / complete27 May 2026£120,883
Media Monitoring ProviderAwarded / complete26 May 2026—
Optimus Support & MaintenanceAwarded / complete21 May 2026—
Silver Incident Response RetainerAwarded / complete21 May 2026—
Lucid Suite SoftwareAwarded / complete21 May 2026—
Lexis Nexis + SubscriptionAwarded / complete27 Apr 2026—
Find Case Law Public Beta DevelopmentInformation technology servicesAwarded / complete22 Apr 2026£2,875,000

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Contracts Finder adds 447 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.

About this data
  • 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. 532 of 533 published contracts have an end date; 14 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.