London: Public Sector Tenders, Buyers & Winners
ITL-1 UKI·buyer region: where the buying organisation is based·472 authorities bought here in the last 12 months·100% of catalogue notices have a buyer with a known UK region
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Tenders you can still bid for with work in this region.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed that publish this region as a place of delivery, or the whole UK. The same set the search shows for the region, whoever the buyer is.
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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 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 4,981 lots from 4,345 competitions, last 36 months. UK-wide middle value: 4. 1,803 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 3,178 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
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What a contract here is usually worth.
Middle value of published award values, VAT excluded. Framework ceilings are left out because they are not real contract values.
Based on 16,012 awards with a usable value, last 36 months.
Published values, not actual spend.
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How much work here goes to companies based in the region.
Contract awards where the winner’s registered address is in this region, out of awards where the address is known.
6,941 of 17,339 awards where the winner’s address is known, last 36 months.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
Newest open tenders
From buyers based in the region · newest first
| Notice | Authority | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme (GMTS) Virtual Assessment Centre (VAC) Service - NHSE | NHS England | 10 Nov 2026 | 17d | £534,780 |
| Digital Analytics Tool | BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) | 20 Nov 2026 | 27d | £28,670,000 |
| Video Management System Migration: Genetec | Victoria and Albert Museum | 2 Nov 2026 | 9d | £443,000 |
See all 746 open tenders deliverable here, UK-wide included →
The London market
Central Government ministries, Transport for London, NHS Trusts, and 33 London Boroughs
Greater London is the UK’s primary procurement powerhouse, accounting for the majority of central government contracts, major transport infrastructure (TfL, London Underground), policing (MOPAC), and prominent university and NHS healthcare procurements.
Main centres: City of London · Westminster · Canary Wharf · Camden · Greenwich.
Who buys herei
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 of buyers based in the region · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), else derived from the authority name · a national body counts where its office is
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.
Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.
Central government36%(15,217 notices)
15,217 of 42,180 notices are Central government (36%).Local authorities30%(12,649 notices)
12,649 of 42,180 notices are Local authorities (30%).Other public bodies15%(6,502 notices)
6,502 of 42,180 notices are Other public bodies (15%).Education & universities3%(1,057 notices)
1,057 of 42,180 notices are Education & universities (3%).NHS & health2%(780 notices)
780 of 42,180 notices are NHS & health (2%).Not classified14%(5,975 notices)
5,975 of 42,180 notices are Not classified (14%).
| Contracting authority | Type | Notices | Last 12 months | Open now |
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| NHS England | Central government | 2,304 | 1,133 | 10 |
| London Borough of Haringey - Passenger Transport Services | Local authorities | 2,077 | 0 | 0 |
| Sutton, Achieving for Children and Kingston | not classified | 1,355 | 214 | 0 |
| Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | Central government | 1,248 | 392 | 7 |
| London Borough of Waltham Forest | Local authorities | 974 | 98 | 6 |
| Transport for London | Other public bodies | 972 | 310 | 3 |
| Ministry of Justice | Central government | 898 | 276 | 1 |
| London Borough of Haringey | Local authorities | 833 | 228 | 7 |
| NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED | Central government | 762 | 203 | 8 |
| The Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London | Local authorities | 728 | 415 | 7 |
1,372 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.
What is bought herei
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 of the notices of buyers in the region · 43,189 of 43,194 carry a CPV code · a notice with several codes counts in each
85 Health & Social Care5,814 notices · 13% · 44 open60 Transport & Passenger Services5,221 notices · 12% · 8 open79 Business Services & Consultancy4,818 notices · 11% · 33 open45 Construction & Civil Engineering4,017 notices · 9% · 38 open72 IT Services & Software3,193 notices · 7% · 14 open80 Education & Training2,581 notices · 6% · 18 open71 Architecture & Engineering2,389 notices · 6% · 21 open50 Repair & Maintenance1,419 notices · 3% · 13 open73 Research & Development (R&D)1,252 notices · 3% · 21 open48 Software Packages & ERP1,219 notices · 3% · 4 openHow it is boughti
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.
Commercial tool, procedure route and threshold 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.
Contract91%(39,447 notices)
39,447 of 43,194 notices are Contract (91%).Framework8%(3,342 notices)
3,342 of 43,194 notices are Framework (8%).Dynamic purchasing system1%(405 notices)
405 of 43,194 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (1%).
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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.
Open38%(16,509 notices)
16,509 of 43,194 notices are Open (38%).Route not published21%(8,924 notices)
8,924 of 43,194 notices are Route not published (21%).Limited / restricted15%(6,440 notices)
6,440 of 43,194 notices are Limited / restricted (15%).Direct award14%(6,074 notices)
6,074 of 43,194 notices are Direct award (14%).Selective12%(5,247 notices)
5,247 of 43,194 notices are Selective (12%).
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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 threshold69%(5,257 notices)
5,257 of 7,651 notices are Above threshold (69%).Below threshold31%(2,394 notices)
2,394 of 7,651 notices are Below threshold (31%).
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How long bidders get to respond.
Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.
Competition
Contracts published in the last 36 months (21,817) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME status as declared
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid17%(843)
843 of 4,981 lots fall in 1 bid (17%).2–329%(1,429)
1,429 of 4,981 lots fall in 2–3 (29%).4–625%(1,239)
1,239 of 4,981 lots fall in 4–6 (25%).7 or more30%(1,470)
1,470 of 4,981 lots fall in 7 or more (30%).
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The usual range of contract values here.
The middle half of published award values, VAT excluded, with the middle value marked. Framework ceilings are left out.
Published values, not actual spend.
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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 4,981 lots from 4,345 competitions, last 36 months. UK-wide middle value: 4. 1,803 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 3,178 from older notices (bids received, middle 4).
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How much of this market is actually put out to competition.
Notices run as an open or selective procedure, out of all notices that say which procedure was used. Direct awards count as not competed.
9,283 of 20,201 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 1,616 more give no procedure and are left out.
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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.
7,100 SME bids out of 11,107, on 2,303 lots 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.
8,923 of 19,238 awards where the winner declared its size.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Based on 1,613 decided competitions, last 36 months.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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Do winners come in above or below the buyer’s estimate.
For each lot we compare the published estimate with the award, like for like. Below means the winner was paid less than estimated, above means more.
Based on 2,306 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 36 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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How often a tender ends with no award.
Notices cancelled, withdrawn or marked unsuccessful, plus terminated ones that never got an award.
422 of 21,817 notices, last 36 months.
Only what buyers published. Tenders that quietly went nowhere are not counted.
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How many companies apply to get onto a framework or DPS here.
Middle value per lot, frameworks and dynamic markets only. Getting onto a panel is not the same as winning work, so it is kept separate.
Based on 1,548 lots from 633 framework and DPS notices, last 36 months.
Who wins here, and where fromi
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.
Two populations, labelled per element: the table ranks suppliers by distinct procedures won (frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems included, all retained years) and shows award records, every single-supplier award on notices of buyers in the region (40,611 awards to 15,268 suppliers). The origin bars and the shares beside them count contract awards of the last 36 months, the five most frequent winners hold 2% of those.
| Supplier | Procedures | Awards | Last 12 months | Buyers |
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| network cars (tottenham) ltd | 541 | 541 | 0 | 1 |
| Airport Transfer Cars Ltd | 336 | 336 | 2 | 6 |
| Emess Car Service | 310 | 310 | 0 | 1 |
| Leyton Midland Cars | 230 | 230 | 0 | 1 |
| Sam’s Cars Limited | 184 | 184 | 0 | 1 |
| Quick Cars | 183 | 183 | 0 | 1 |
| People's Choice Transport | 147 | 159 | 8 | 4 |
| SNA Transport Limited | 133 | 233 | 85 | 3 |
All single-supplier awards (frameworks and DPS panel appointments included) across all retained years; the eight most frequent winners shown.
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How much work here goes to companies based in the region.
Contract awards where the winner’s registered address is in this region, out of awards where the address is known.
6,941 of 17,339 awards where the winner’s address is known, last 36 months.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
Winner’s registered region known for 17,339 of 20,812 contract awards in the last 36 months; the 3,473 without one are excluded from the bars.
Where to submiti
Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
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Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
E-sourcing portals named in the submission address · 8,760 of 43,194 notices name one · each portal page explains registration
Open tenders from buyers in London
Open for bids now, from buyers based in the region · soonest deadline first
All 746 open tenders deliverable in London, UK-wide notices included →
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.
- How we count regions. A notice belongs to the region of the organisation that buys: the office address on its buyer profile, placed by the official ONS postcode lookup, and where one organisation published under several accounts, the address of its current profile. Each notice counts once, so the regions add up. A national body counts where its office is, so London includes government departments that buy for the whole country. Where the work is delivered is a separate fact: every tender page shows the place of delivery exactly as the notice publishes it, UK-wide included, and search filters by it. 959 of 213,552 notices come from a buyer without a known UK region and belong to none.
- What counts here. Every notice of a buyer based in Greater London. To find work you can deliver here, including national notices from buyers elsewhere, search by delivery region. Notices from 2021 to 23 Oct 2026.
- Competition. Bids and winners cover the last three years and count each lot as its own contest; frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems are shown apart from ordinary contracts.
- Won locally. A contract counts as won locally when the winner’s registered address is in the same region. That address is usually a head office, so a national firm with a local branch reads as non-local.
- Why no total spend. Notice estimates often repeat a framework’s ceiling, so adding them up would overstate the market. Typical contract values are shown instead.
- 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.