UK Research and Innovation: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)·GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public body·Central government·South West England·SWINDON·Central purchasing body on 26 of 166 notices
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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 48 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.
657 awarded tenders, 614 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.
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting29 procedures · 17%38 Laboratory, optical and precision21 procedures · 13%71 Architectural, construction, engineering15 procedures · 9%48 Software package and information systems13 procedures · 8%50 Repair and maintenance services11 procedures · 7%73 Research and development services11 procedures · 7%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet10 procedures · 6%80 Education and training services10 procedures · 6%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 · 166 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 92% (153 notices)
- Framework 7% (12 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 1% (1 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.
- Limited / restricted 51% (84 notices)
- Open 40% (67 notices)
- Route not published 7% (11 notices)
- Selective 2% (4 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 48 lots from this buyer’s competitions, 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 166 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 41 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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| PHOTONIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 8 | 1.2% | 1 | 8 | 4 Nov 2024 |
| Ricardo AEA Ltd | 5 | 0.8% | 4 | 5 | 13 Feb 2025 |
| Stanley Services Ltd | 5 | 0.8% | 1 | 5 | 20 Dec 2024 |
| Etesian Semiconductor Ltd | 5 | 0.8% | 0 | 5 | 8 May 2024 |
| Jisc Services Ltd | 5 | 0.8% | 0 | 5 | 12 Aug 2024 |
| Zinc Ventures Limited | 4 | 0.6% | 4 | 4 | 1 May 2025 |
| Green Resource Engineering Limited | 4 | 0.6% | 2 | 4 | 21 Nov 2024 |
| BRUKER UK LIMITED | 4 | 0.6% | 2 | 4 | 6 Dec 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 3% of 657 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 614 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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| Management and Commercialisation of Intellectual Property and Related Advice | LGC LIMITED | — | — | £9,568,476 † |
| UKRI-3797 AI Skills Hub | Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP | — | — | £4,148,645 † |
| GSS24327 - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) Associate Management Training - RFP | Ashorne Hill Management College | — | — | £2,250,000 † |
| UKRI-3815 Landscape and Grounds maintenance, reactive and remedial works at STFC | Glendale Countryside Limited | — | — | £1,371,968 † |
| UKRI-4829 - OBJECTIVE ECM | Objective Corporation UK Limited | — | — | £1,207,796 † |
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 · 16 of 811 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| GSS24851 - Skills Centre Residential Trip Tender | Pilot IMS | 30 Apr 2027 | £320,000 |
| UKRI-4763 NERC - Aircraft Operations Safety Case Development for British Antarctic Survey and FAAM Airborne Laboratory | Occam Group LTD | 17 Jun 2027 | £379,550 |
| GSS24327 - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) Associate Management Training - RFP | Ashorne Hill Management College | 15 Mar 2028 | £2,250,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 883 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| UKRI-4776 MRC LMS Optical Tweezers Repair and Maintenance ServiceRepair and maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 5 Mar 2025 | — |
| UKRI-4659- Cloud Services Ulster UniversityWeb server software development services | Awarded / complete | 5 Mar 2025 | — |
| UKRI-4623 DUNE Anode Plane Assembly (APA) Shipping Frames (ASFs)Storage units | Awarded / complete | 5 Mar 2025 | — |
| UKRI-4610 Eclipse Suite RAL Space 2025-30Software package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 5 Mar 2025 | — |
| UKRI-4777 MRC LMS Optical Tweezers Repair and Maintenance ServiceRepair and maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 4 Mar 2025 | — |
| UKRI-4402 - R100 Building Services Breakdown RemedialsConstruction work for buildings relating to education and research | Awarded / complete | 4 Mar 2025 | — |
| UKRI-4864 - FESTIVAL OF TOMORROWEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 3 Mar 2025 | — |
| UKRI-4774 The Provision of Patent and Trademark Attorney ServicesPatent and copyright consultancy services | Open | 21 Feb 2025 | £3,500,000 |
| UKRI-4672 Centrifuge Service and MaintenanceLaboratory centrifuges and accessories | Open | 21 Feb 2025 | £400,000 |
| The Provision of Patent and Trademark Attorney ServicesPatent and copyright consultancy services | Cancelled | 20 Feb 2025 | £3,500,000 |
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 (£1.6bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 160 award records on 139 procedures (148 to a single canonical supplier, 12 multi-supplier). 109 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: 16 of 811 published contracts carry a period end; 3 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (134 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
+110 further identifiers not listed here.
Canonical page id: GB-COH-OC360004