Cobra Specialist Security Services: UK Public Sector Contracts Won & Awards

SMECompanies House: Private Limited CompanyLisburnNorthern IrelandMain market: Security services

Official UK PPONPMGD-3931-PMNDCompanies HouseNI034725 ↗ · ActiveWebsitecobrasecurity.co.uk ↗

Procedures with an award911 award records

Public authorities5named on published awards

Attributable award value£127mnet · on 10 of 11 award records · single-supplier, no ceilings

Last 12 months4awards · 5 in the prior 24 months · last 20 Jul 2026

Contracts ending ≤18 months1end date on 6 of 11 awards · 1 estimated

Buyer regions1most often Northern Ireland

Where they win
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11 awards (9 for a named lot, 82%, 2 for a whole procedure with no lot named) · top CPV classes, shares of all 11 awards. An award may cover more than one class.

7971 Security services9 awards · 82% · 7 awards naming a lot + 2 whole-procedure awards

7962 Supply services of personnel including temporary staff1 award · 9% · awards naming a lot

Attributable award value

£127mOn 10 of 11 award records; the five largest make 98%. Largest rows below.

Typical attributable award

£1.2m middle valuerobust · n=10

Award vs estimate

Based on 5 wins in its industry (CPV division 79).

0% at estimaterobust · n=5compared within CPV division 79

Largest published awards i	Authority	Awarded	Term	Published value
TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF LOCK, UNLOCK, KEY HOLDING AND ALARM RESPONSE SERVICES	Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council	—	—	£104,012,100 †
TENDER FOR THE PROVISION OF LOCK, UNLOCK, KEY HOLDING AND ALARM RESPONSE SERVICES T21/22-037	Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council	—	—	£11,363,316 †
Contract	NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED	—	—	£5,627,567 †
PROVISION OF SECURITY SERVICES AT SITES IN THE ANTRIM AND NEWTOWNABBEY BOROUGH COUNCIL AREA	Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council	—	—	£2,500,000 †
PROVISION OF SECURITY SERVICES	Radius Housing	8 May 2026	3 yrs · up to 5 yrs	£1,260,000 ≈ £420k/yr

Where their buyers are
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ITL1 region of the buyer office · known for 9 of 9 awarded procedures · each procedure counts once

Northern Ireland9 procedures · 100%

Bidding record
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Procurement Act 2023 award notices name every bidder · 1 notice names this supplier since 10 Aug 2026 · observed bids, not an estimate

Contract lots contested

0 won · 1 lostindicative · n=1Fewer than three decided lots: no rate is claimed.

Authorities bid for

1Bid for and never won with 1 of them on contract lots.

Notice	Authority	Outcome	Bidders	Published
Security and CCTV Monitoring Contractor	Choice Housing	lost	3	10 Aug 2026

Bidder names come from Procurement Act 2023 award notices, which list every bidder (from 2025). Older notices name no bidders, so earlier contests do not appear here. Latest ten notices shown.

Who they sell to
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Authorities named on this supplier’s published awards · ranked by distinct procedures · a framework or DPS adds one award record per appointed supplier

Authority type · official UK type when published, else name/id class, else not classified · by award records (a single panel can dominate)

Local authority82%(9 awards)
9 of 11 awards are Local authority (82%).
Housing9%(1 award)
1 of 11 awards is Housing (9%).
Type not classified9%(1 award)
1 of 11 awards is Type not classified (9%).

Authority	Procedures	Share	Award records	Last activity
Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council	5	55.6%	6	20 Jul 2026
Belfast City Council	1	11.1%	2	29 Aug 2025
NORTHERN IRELAND WATER LIMITED	1	11.1%	1	10 Mar 2025
Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council	1	11.1%	1	21 Mar 2023
Radius Housing	1	11.1%	1	8 May 2026

Share = of the 9 procedures with an award naming this supplier. Last activity = award date, or notice publication when no award date was published.

Contracts ending
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6 of 11 awards carry an end date, 3 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Ends	Published value
Contract	23 Feb 2028 estimated	£5,627,567

Recent awards

Latest 11 of 11 award records naming this supplier

Award / procedure	Authority	Awarded	Published value
PROVISION OF SECURITY SERVICES AT SITES IN THE ANTRIM AND NEWTOWNABBEY BOROUGH COUNCIL AREA	Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council	Not published	£2,500,000 † from the contract notice

About this data

One profile per supplier. Built from award and contract notices that name this supplier; different spellings and registration numbers of the same company are merged into this profile.
Values are published values. The table mirrors what the notice published: framework ceilings and joint awards are labelled and never counted as this supplier's money, and † marks a value taken from the contract notice when the award published none. Only awards made to this supplier alone count towards its value, excluding VAT. It is not turnover.
Regions in the buyer chart describe the buyer office, not where the work is delivered or the supplier’s registered address.
Contract end dates. Published on 3 of 11 awards, estimated from the published duration on 3 more (marked “estimated”); those feed “Contracts ending”. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.