The National Archives: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Official UK PPONPTBZ-4379-JQQX
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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 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
85 awarded tenders, 74 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LEGISLATION PRINT PUBLISHING CONTRACT | 30 Oct 2026 | 30d | £3,500,000 |
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, internet5 procedures · 6%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 5% · 1 open92 Recreational, cultural and sporting2 procedures · 3%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 1%38 Laboratory, optical and precision1 procedures · 1%51 Installation services (except software)1 procedures · 1%71 Architectural, construction, engineering1 procedures · 1%73 Research and development services1 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 · 80 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% (80 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.
- Direct award 63% (50 notices)
- Limited / restricted 15% (12 notices)
- Open 15% (12 notices)
- Route not published 6% (5 notices)
- Selective 1% (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 5 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 6 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 80 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 5 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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| The Stationery Office | 3 | 3.5% | 1 | 3 | 12 Aug 2025 |
| Torchbox Ltd | 2 | 2.4% | 2 | 2 | 21 Jul 2025 |
| Progress Software Corporation | 2 | 2.4% | 2 | 2 | 26 Mar 2026 |
| Venturebright Ltd | 2 | 2.4% | 2 | 2 | 7 Aug 2026 |
| NLA Media Access Limited | 2 | 2.4% | 2 | 2 | 1 Jul 2026 |
| Relx (UK) Limited t/a LexisNexis | 2 | 2.4% | 2 | 2 | 27 Apr 2026 |
| Lamb Personnel Limited | 2 | 2.4% | 2 | 2 | 6 Mar 2026 |
| Pi Consult Limited | 2 | 2.4% | 1 | 2 | 2 Apr 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 85 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 74 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 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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| Concession Contract for Legislation Publishing | The Stationery Office | — | 1 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £3,450,000 † ≈ £3.5m/yr |
| Find Case Law Public Beta Development | The Dextrous Web Ltd | 13 Mar 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £2,875,000 ≈ £1.4m/yr |
| Legal Document Toolkit Development | Venturebright Ltd | 7 Aug 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £1,666,667 ≈ £556k/yr |
| RICHES Works | Komfort Services ltd | — | 2 mo | £377,981 † |
| SUPPLY OF MACRO X-RAY FLUORESCENCE (MA-XRF) SYSTEM | BlueScientific Ltd | 4 Nov 2025 | 4 mo | £168,678 |
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 · 70 of 85 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Ticketing & Online Shop platform consultancy | ROD BARLOW DIGITAL CONSULTANCY LTD | 30 Sept 2026 | £10,445 |
| Minor Works for the Revolution 250 Exhibition | MER Services Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £84,967 |
| Media Monitoring Provider | CISION GROUP LIMITED | 9 Jan 2027 | £15,000 |
| Adobe Licences (2026-2028) | BECHTLE LIMITED | 1 Feb 2027 | £12,628 |
| Backupify Subscription | Kaseya | 20 Feb 2027 | US$17,388 |
| Marklogic Licences | Progress Software Corporation | 15 Mar 2027 | £78,036 |
| Equipment Service Contract | Genus IT Limited | 31 Mar 2027 | £34,569 |
| Equipment Service Contract | Icam Archives Systems | 31 Mar 2027 | £29,293 |
| NLA Media Access License 2026-2027 | NLA Media Access Limited | 7 Apr 2027 | £20,510 |
| Optimus Support & Maintenance | Optichrome Ltd | 30 Apr 2027 | £13,148 |
Soonest 10 of 16 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 104 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Fibre Optic & Cat6 Cable Installation | Awarded / complete | 18 Sept 2025 | — |
| External Board Effectiveness Review | Awarded / complete | 10 Sept 2025 | — |
| Supply of Laboratory Furniture | Awarded / complete | 29 Aug 2025 | — |
| Digital Competency Training | Awarded / complete | 29 Aug 2025 | — |
| Zeutschel OS A2 and Table | Awarded / complete | 26 Aug 2025 | — |
| Concession Contract for Legislation Publishing | Awarded / complete | 12 Aug 2025 | — |
| Environmental Monitoring System Support | Awarded / complete | 31 Jul 2025 | — |
| RICHES Works | Awarded / complete | 23 Jul 2025 | — |
| Executive Search Services | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2025 | — |
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 (£71m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 70 award records on 70 procedures (70 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 65 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: 70 of 85 published contracts carry a period end; 16 end within 18 months, 6 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (3 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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