Inventory management software package: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition

CPV 48430000Services · classin Software Packages & ERP

Open now1deadline in the future or not published
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months1914 contracting authorities · 81 in the catalogue
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot35 procedures, 36 months
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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 5 lots from 5 competitions, last 36 months. 1 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 4 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).

Last 36 months.

Codes and neighbouring classes

The 8-digit CPV codes notices in this class actually use, and the other classes of the same division

Who buys
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.

Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.

All notices carrying this code · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), else derived from the authority name

Buyer type
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.

Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.

  • Central government 35% (28 notices)
  • Other public bodies 25% (20 notices)
  • Local authorities 14% (11 notices)
  • NHS & health 8% (6 notices)
  • Police, fire & emergency 8% (6 notices)
  • Not classified 10% (8 notices)
Contracting authorityTypeNoticesLast 12 monthsOpen now
Ministry of DefenceCentral government900
Crescent Purchasing Consortium LimitedOther public bodies850
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCentral government400
Department of Agriculture Environment and Rural AffairsCentral government220
Essex Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Fire and Rescue AuthorityPolice, fire & emergency200
NHS EnglandCentral government200
NHS Property Services LimitedNHS & health200
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care acting as part of the Crown through UK Health Security AgencyCentral government200
JiscOther public bodies101
Belfast City CouncilLocal authorities100

58 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.

Where the work is delivered
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Where this supplier has delivered.

Delivery regions published on its awarded tenders. A tender with several regions counts in each.

Where the work was, not where the company is based.

Delivery regions (ITL1) published on 40 of 81 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months, lots delivered in the region

RegionNoticesBids / lotSME winsLocal wins
Wales (Cymru)7 · 18%
Northern Ireland6 · 15%
South East England5 · 13%
East of England4 · 10%
South West England4 · 10%
Greater London3 · 8%
North West England3 · 8%
North East England2 · 5%
West Midlands2 · 5%
Yorkshire and the Humber2 · 5%
East Midlands1 · 3%
Scotland1 · 3%

Local wins = the winner’s registered region is the delivery region. Dashes: fewer than ten observations.

How it is bought
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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

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 84% (68 notices)
  • Framework 15% (12 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 1% (1 notices)
Procedure route
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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.

  • Route not published 48% (39 notices)
  • Open 38% (31 notices)
  • Selective 9% (7 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 5% (4 notices)
Threshold
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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 threshold 83% (19 notices)
  • Below threshold 17% (4 notices)
Typical tender window
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How long bidders get to respond.

Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.

All notices we hold, not just recent ones.

30 daysrobust · n=12median, notice to deadline

Competition

Contracts published in the last 36 months (36) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME and local status as declared

Typical bids per lot
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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 5 lots from 5 competitions, last 36 months. 1 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 4 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).

Last 36 months.

3robust · n=5middle half 3–3
Competed
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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.

20 of 22 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 14 more give no procedure and are left out.

Last 36 months.

91%robust · n=22
Abandoned
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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.

8 of 36 notices, last 36 months.

Only what buyers published. Tenders that quietly went nowhere are not counted.

Last 36 months.

22%robust · n=36

Who wins
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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.

Ranked by distinct procedures won on notices carrying this code, then award records · 14 awards to 13 suppliers

Where to submit
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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 · 19 of 81 notices name one · each portal page explains registration

EU-Supply Complete Tender Management3 notices · 16% · 1 open
eTendersNI2 notices · 11%
JAGGAER / BravoSolution2 notices · 11%
Sell2Wales2 notices · 11%
Proactis / ProContract1 notices · 5%

Open tenders in inventory management software package

1 live at the nightly build · soonest deadline first

NoticeAuthorityDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Electronic Research and Laboratory Notebook DPSDPSJisc4 Nov 2027408d£1,500,000 ceiling

Method

What the numbers on this page are and are not

Which notices count?

Every Find a Tender notice that carries a CPV code starting 4843. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Earliest notice 2021; latest 28 Aug 2026.

Competition figures

Lot-grain contest statistics over the last 36 months: a lot counts where its own CPV codes (or, for single-class notices, the procedure’s) start 4843; contracts and frameworks / DPS are kept apart. Each figure’s own method — grain, window, exclusions and this page’s sample — is behind its ; the long form is on Methodology.

Why no total value or month-by-month chart?

Sums of notice estimates repeat framework ceilings and mix net with gross. Monthly volumes per sector are not shown yet: the catalogue’s CPV coverage per notice changed in May 2026 (compiled records carry every lot’s codes), so a curve would show the catalogue, not the market.