Proactis ProContract: Portal Guide & Tenders
Operated by Proactis Group (formerly Due North)·Public-sector e-sourcing portal·Login required to see documents
Official portalprocontract.due-north.com ↗HelpdeskPer-portal support
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 long bidders get to respond.
Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.
The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 3,107 lots from 2,435 competitions on this portal, last 36 months.
How to bid on ProContract
Portal facts checked against the live portal in September 2026 · the notice always names the exact portal instance to use
ProContract by Proactis (the Due North product Proactis bought in 2016; the due-north.com domain is still live in notices) powers procurement portals for hundreds of UK public bodies. Many run under their own regional brand on the same system: The Chest (North West), NEPO (North East), YORtender (Yorkshire), Kent Business Portal, Supplying the South West and the South East Business Portal.
Suppliers register on the ProContract supplier network (supplierlive.proactisp2p.com or procontract.due-north.com). Bidders express interest, access tender documentation, submit clarifications through the portal messaging hub, and submit encrypted bids.
- Registration
- Free · short registration with manual review; public opportunity list
- Access
- Login required to see documents
- Helpdesk
- Per-portal support
- Time to respond
- The middle value is 31 days from notice to deadline on 4,635 tender notices, register before the notice you want, not after.
Who buys through ProContracti
Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
All notices naming this portal · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities for threshold purposes), else derived from the authority name
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.
Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.
Local authorities81%(10,158 notices)
10,158 of 12,543 notices are Local authorities (81%).Other public bodies8%(952 notices)
952 of 12,543 notices are Other public bodies (8%).Central government3%(403 notices)
403 of 12,543 notices are Central government (3%).Education & universities1%(188 notices)
188 of 12,543 notices are Education & universities (1%).Housing associations1%(179 notices)
179 of 12,543 notices are Housing associations (1%).Not classified5%(663 notices)
663 of 12,543 notices are Not classified (5%).
| Contracting authority | Type | Notices | Last 12 months | Open now |
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| Kent County Council | Local authorities | 243 | 38 | 4 |
| Leicester City Council | Local authorities | 231 | 49 | 6 |
| Derbyshire County Council | Local authorities | 201 | 33 | 2 |
| Manchester City Council | Local authorities | 200 | 32 | 2 |
| Caerphilly County Borough Council | Local authorities | 193 | 80 | 8 |
| Bristol City Council | Local authorities | 184 | 20 | 6 |
| Essex County Council | Local authorities | 180 | 11 | 0 |
| Staffordshire County Council | Local authorities | 171 | 33 | 3 |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council | Local authorities | 170 | 31 | 2 |
| Cambridgeshire County Council | Local authorities | 160 | 46 | 4 |
601 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.
Portal instances named in notices
29 distinct hosts in submission addresses · a multi-tenant portal runs one registration per instance, the notice names yours
procontract.due-north.com8,001 notices · 63% · 194 openthe-chest.org.uk1,236 notices · 10% · 28 opensupplierlive.proactisp2p.com1,197 notices · 9% · 37 opensupplyingthesouthwest.org.uk874 notices · 7% · 17 openkentbusinessportal.org.uk571 notices · 5% · 24 opennepo.org416 notices · 3% · 2 openyortender.co.uk175 notices · 1% · 1 opensebp.due-north.com153 notices · 1% · 4 opennepoportal.org29 notices · <1%nepo.org.uk5 notices · <1%procontract-due-north.com3 notices · <1%contractorlive.proactisp2p.com2 notices · <1%What is procured on ProContracti
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.
CPV divisions on the notices naming this portal · a notice with several divisions counts in each · commercial tool and route as published, not a legal-regime claim
85 Health and social work services2,621 notices · 21%45 Construction work2,011 notices · 16%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting919 notices · 7%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental758 notices · 6%71 Architectural, construction, engineering727 notices · 6%50 Repair and maintenance services654 notices · 5%80 Education and training services542 notices · 4%98 Other community, social and personal services415 notices · 3%i
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract80%(10,129 notices)
10,129 of 12,683 notices are Contract (80%).Framework18%(2,224 notices)
2,224 of 12,683 notices are Framework (18%).Dynamic purchasing system3%(330 notices)
330 of 12,683 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (3%).
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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.
Open87%(11,045 notices)
11,045 of 12,683 notices are Open (87%).Selective12%(1,487 notices)
1,487 of 12,683 notices are Selective (12%).Route not published1%(111 notices)
111 of 12,683 notices are Route not published (1%).Limited / restricted0%(40 notices)
40 of 12,683 notices are Limited / restricted (0%).
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How much of this market is above the legal threshold.
Notices by whether the buyer marked them above or below the threshold that triggers the full rules.
Above threshold51%(1,945 notices)
1,945 of 3,833 notices are Above threshold (51%).Below threshold49%(1,888 notices)
1,888 of 3,833 notices are Below threshold (49%).
Where the work is deliveredi
Where the work on these notices is delivered.
Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.
Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.
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Where the work on these notices is delivered.
Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.
Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.
Delivery regions (ITL1) published on 11,108 of 12,683 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each
Competition and winners on ProContracti
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.
Bid counts as published per lot on contested contract notices of the last 36 months · winners ranked by distinct procedures won, award records shown alongside, single-supplier active awards with a canonical supplier · SME scale as declared on the award
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.
The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 3,107 lots from 2,435 competitions on this portal, last 36 months.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
435 of 3,107 lots, last 36 months.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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What share of bids come from small and medium firms.
SME bids divided by all bids, on lots where the buyer published the split.
10,111 SME bids out of 13,441, where the buyer published the split.
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What share of contracts go to small and medium firms.
Awards to a single supplier that declared its size. SME divided by all.
15,102 of 21,595 awards where the winner declared its size.
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What buyers on this portal usually estimate.
Middle value of the estimates published on notices, VAT excluded, framework ceilings left out.
Based on 6,349 notices with a usable estimate.
An estimate on the notice, not what was awarded.
| Supplier | Procedures | Single-supplier awards | Buyers |
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| Biffa Waste Services Ltd | 20 | 45 | 14 |
| Creative Support Ltd | 19 | 21 | 15 |
| BELL GROUP LTD | 17 | 55 | 16 |
| CIVICA UK LIMITED | 17 | 18 | 15 |
| AECOM LIMITED | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| Zurich Municipal | 16 | 40 | 16 |
| idverde Ltd | 15 | 28 | 15 |
| IAN WILLIAMS | 15 | 27 | 13 |
21,840 single-supplier awards to 9,762 suppliers on notices naming this portal · the most frequent winners shown.
Open tenders on ProContract
298 open now · soonest deadline first · every row links to the notice page with the portal reference and documents
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder contracts appear on the Retender Radar, not yet in these figures.
- What counts as ProContract. A notice whose submission link points to this portal, including buyer-specific instances (29 addresses so far). Award notices rarely publish that link, so the awards side is undercounted. Notices from 4 Jan 2021 to 3 Nov 2026.
- Portal facts. Registration and login notes were checked on the live portal in September 2026. Portals change their sign-up steps; the notice’s own instructions take precedence.
- Independent. Portal and operator names belong to their owners and appear only to show where notices are published; Tenderline is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any portal.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.