Photographic and ancillary services: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition
CPV 79960000·Services · class·in Business Services & Consultancy
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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 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 11 lots from 11 competitions, last 36 months. 3 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 8 from older notices (bids received, middle 7.5).
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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 14 awards with a usable value, last 36 months.
Published values, not actual spend.
Codes and neighbouring classes
The 8-digit CPV codes notices in this class actually use, and the other classes of the same division
79961000 Photographic services54 notices · 40%79961100 Advertising photography services36 notices · 27%79961300 Specialised photography services35 notices · 26%79961200 Aerial photography services32 notices · 24%79960000 Photographic and ancillary services30 notices · 22%79961350 Studio photography services14 notices · 10%79962000 Photograph processing services7 notices · 5%79961320 Underwater photography services2 notices · 1%- Business and management consultancy services 930 · 12m
- Advertising and marketing services 505 · 12m
- Miscellaneous business-related services 501 · 12m
- Market research services 459 · 12m
- Security services 410 · 12m
- Accounting and auditing services 367 · 12m
- Business and management consultancy and related services 310 · 12m
- Exhibition, fair and congress organisation services 277 · 12m
- Recruitment services 230 · 12m
- Legal services 224 · 12m
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Who buysi
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 carrying this code · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), 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 authorities 29% (39 notices)
- Central government 23% (30 notices)
- Education & universities 19% (25 notices)
- Other public bodies 14% (19 notices)
- Police, fire & emergency 2% (2 notices)
- Not classified 14% (18 notices)
| Contracting authority | Type | Notices | Last 12 months | Open now |
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| National Highways Limited | Central government | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| British Council | Local authorities | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service | Central government | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| Ministry of Defence | Central government | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Scottish Government | not classified | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Government Commercial Agency | Central government | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council | Local authorities | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Belfast City Council | Local authorities | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Cardiff University | Education & universities | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Defra Network eTendering Portal | not classified | 2 | 0 | 0 |
102 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.
Where the work is deliveredi
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.
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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 82 of 134 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months, lots delivered in the region
| Region | Notices | Bids / lot | SME wins | Local wins |
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| Scotland | — | — | — | |
| South East England | — | — | — | |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | — | — | — | |
| Northern Ireland | — | — | — | |
| Wales (Cymru) | — | — | — | |
| North East England | — | — | — | |
| North West England | — | — | — | |
| East Midlands | — | — | — | |
| Greater London | — | — | — | |
| South West England | — | — | — | |
| East of England | — | — | — | |
| West Midlands | — | — | — |
Local wins = the winner’s registered region is the delivery region. Dashes: fewer than ten observations.
How 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.
- Contract 56% (75 notices)
- Framework 36% (48 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 8% (11 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.
- Open 57% (77 notices)
- Route not published 20% (27 notices)
- Selective 20% (27 notices)
- Limited / restricted 2% (3 notices)
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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 58% (22 notices)
- Below threshold 42% (16 notices)
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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 (44) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME and local status as declared
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How the number of bidders is spread across lots.
Each lot with a published bid count is put in a band: one bid, two to three, four to six, seven or more. Real competitions only.
- 1 bid 9% (1)
- 2–3 18% (2)
- 4–6 27% (3)
- 7 or more 45% (5)
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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 11 lots from 11 competitions, last 36 months. 3 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 3) and 8 from older notices (bids received, middle 7.5).
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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.
28 of 31 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 13 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.
40 SME bids out of 55, on 9 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.
11 of 13 awards where the winner declared its size.
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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.
0 of 44 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 21 lots from 17 framework and DPS notices, last 36 months.
Who winsi
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.
Ranked by distinct procedures won on notices carrying this code, then award records · 106 awards to 80 suppliers
| Supplier | Procedures | Awards | Last 12 months | Buyers |
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| Ede & Ravenscroft Limited | 9 | 10 | 2 | 8 |
| APEM Ltd | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| H Tempest Ltd. | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Marston Events Limited | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| PA MEDIA GROUP LIMITED | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Airtask Group | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Arke Agency | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| Drive Creative Studio Ltd | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
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 · 48 of 134 notices name one · each portal page explains registration
Open tenders in photographic and ancillary services
5 live at the nightly build · soonest deadline first
| Notice | Authority | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Marketing Design & Creative Services Framework at Imperial War Museums (IWM) | Imperial War Museums | 30 Sept 2026 | 8d | £816,664 ceiling |
| Term Extension of the National Highways Social Enterprise Dynamic Purchasing System (SEDPS) | National Highways Limited | 14 Aug 2028 | 692d | £65,000,000 ceiling |
| Income Generation from Estates, Assets & IP | The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service | 15 Aug 2028 | 692d | £700,000,000 ceiling |
| Design Print and Related Services Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the London Borough of Camden | London Borough of Camden | 21 Jan 2029 | 852d | £2,440,000 ceiling |
| Space Technology Solutions | Government Commercial Agency | 30 Jul 2031 | 1772d | — |
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 7996. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Earliest notice 2021; latest 21 Sept 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 7996; 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.