UK Space Agency: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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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 8 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.
42 awarded tenders, 54 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, consulting8 procedures · 14%73 Research and development services7 procedures · 12%34 Transport equipment and products6 procedures · 10%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet6 procedures · 10%32 Radio, television, communication2 procedures · 3%35 Security, fire-fighting, police2 procedures · 3%38 Laboratory, optical and precision2 procedures · 3%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 2%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 · 58 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 97% (56 notices)
- Framework 3% (2 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 57% (33 notices)
- Route not published 21% (12 notices)
- Open 17% (10 notices)
- Selective 5% (3 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 8 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 4 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 58 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 4 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| SATALLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LTD | 3 | 7.1% | 2 | 4 | 13 Mar 2026 |
| Raytheon Systems Limited | 2 | 4.8% | 2 | 2 | 18 Feb 2026 |
| GROWBOTICS SPACE LTD | 2 | 4.8% | 1 | 3 | 24 Mar 2025 |
| University of Birmingham | 1 | 2.4% | 1 | 2 | 15 Sept 2025 |
| University of Strathclyde | 1 | 2.4% | 1 | 2 | 15 Sept 2025 |
| The Aerospace Corporation, UK, Ltd | 1 | 2.4% | 1 | 2 | 15 Sept 2025 |
| AMENTUM ENTERPRISE ASSET SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 1 | 2.4% | 1 | 1 | 13 Aug 2025 |
| RCGP Enterprises Limited | 1 | 2.4% | 1 | 1 | 20 Feb 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 17% of 42 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 54 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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| GSS2533 - UKSAC25_0034 - The Provision of Optical Delivery Partner | SLINGSHOT AEROSPACE LTD | — | 2.6 yrs | £3,322,451 † ≈ £1.3m/yr |
| Provision of External Support to UKSA and MoD Space Command for the development of capabilities relating to national security | Withheld Section94 supplier | 1 Sept 2025 | 3 mo · up to 1.3 yrs | £1,000,000 |
| Provision of 24-month Subscription Research Programme | Analysys Mason Limited | 26 Mar 2026 | 2 yrs | £303,850 ≈ £152k/yr |
| NORSSTrack Cloud Licence | Raytheon Systems Limited | 14 Jan 2026 | 2 mo · up to 1.2 yrs | £143,106 |
| Mobile World Congress 2026 UKSA Stand | TRADE FAIR SUPPORT LIMITED | 6 Aug 2025 | 7 mo | £136,000 |
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 · 47 of 56 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| NSpOC: Orbital Analyst Laptop Provision and Support | CTS Group Ltd | 31 Oct 2026 | £25,410 |
| OCE MATLAB Licences | The MathWorks Ltd. | 14 Dec 2026 | £10,062 |
| OCE STK Orbital Analysis Software | ST Engineering Antycip | 14 Dec 2026 | £17,760 |
| CSP25689 | SAMCO Aircraft Maintenance BV | 25 Dec 2026 | £21,500 |
| Satellite Applications Catapult Space Capability Catalogue (Online access) Subscription | SATALLITE APPLICATIONS CATAPULT LTD | 28 Feb 2027 | £77,522 |
| NSpOC EISCAT Membership | EISCAT AB | 1 Mar 2027 | £130,000 |
| NORSSTrack Cloud Licence | Raytheon Systems Limited | 31 Mar 2027 | £486,138 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 72 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Contracts for Innovation : Space Data Solutions for Change Detection and AnalysisIT services: consulting | Open | 29 Aug 2025 | £833,333 |
| IMEO Methane Monitoring | Awarded / complete | 29 Aug 2025 | — |
| UK Rocket Engine Test Site Assessment | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2025 | — |
| National Space Operations Centre: STK and ODTK Software Licences | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2025 | — |
| Orbex Financial Due Diligence | Awarded / complete | 29 Jul 2025 | — |
| Catering for NATO Starlift Meeting | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2025 | — |
| PS25072 - ESA Proposal Advice ServiceBusiness and management consultancy and related services | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2025 | £100,000 |
| Expression of Interest (EOI) for the supply of a CAD Model for a payload for Environmental and Climate Observation Satellite MissionData-processing services | Planning | 15 Jul 2025 | £2,000,000 |
| Our Fragile Space - Protecting the Near-Space Environment | Awarded / complete | 1 Jul 2025 | — |
| UK Space Agency: Girlguiding Partnership Agreement | Awarded / complete | 26 Jun 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 (£202m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 46 award records on 36 procedures (41 to a single canonical supplier, 5 multi-supplier). 21 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: 47 of 56 published contracts carry a period end; 7 end within 18 months, 6 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (10 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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