Crescent Purchasing Consortium Limited: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)·North West England·Salford·Ran 8 procurements for other authorities
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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 many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
46 awarded tenders, 531 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
What they buyi
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.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting22 procedures · 32%30 Office and computing machinery13 procedures · 19%48 Software package and information systems13 procedures · 19%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet10 procedures · 14%45 Construction work8 procedures · 12%71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 10%37 Musical instruments, sport, games6 procedures · 9%44 Construction structures and materials6 procedures · 9%How they buyi
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.
Last 24 months · 69 notices · commercial tool and route 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.
Framework62%(43 notices)
43 of 69 notices are Framework (62%).Contract33%(23 notices)
23 of 69 notices are Contract (33%).Dynamic purchasing system4%(3 notices)
3 of 69 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (4%).
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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 published58%(40 notices)
40 of 69 notices are Route not published (58%).Open38%(26 notices)
26 of 69 notices are Open (38%).Selective3%(2 notices)
2 of 69 notices are Selective (3%).Limited / restricted1%(1 notice)
1 of 69 notices is Limited / restricted (1%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 13 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 69 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
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.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Insight Direct | 5 | 10.9% | 2 | 28 | 20 May 2026 |
| Banner Ltd | 5 | 10.9% | 1 | 13 | — |
| Phoenix Software Ltd | 4 | 8.7% | 3 | 18 | 20 May 2026 |
| Softcat Plc | 4 | 8.7% | 3 | 16 | 30 Sept 2026 |
| EUROPEAN ELECTRONIQUE LIMITED | 4 | 8.7% | 3 | 10 | 20 May 2026 |
| Stone Technologies Ltd t/a Converge Technology Solutions | 4 | 8.7% | 2 | 19 | — |
| CCS Media Limited | 4 | 8.7% | 2 | 8 | — |
| Lyreco Office Products | 4 | 8.7% | 1 | 8 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 22% of 46 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 531 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
316 of 317 contracts carry an end date, 242 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 58 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 108 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Corporate Software & Related Products and ServicesCompliance software package | Awarded / complete | 26 Oct 2026 | £46,000,000 |
| Construction & Capital Works FrameworkConstruction work | Awarded / complete | 23 Oct 2026 | £9,500,000,000 |
| Paint and Decorating SuppliesOil and water paints | Awarded / complete | 9 Oct 2026 | £8,000,000 |
| HR, Payroll and Employee Screening Services 2Human resources management consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 11 Sept 2026 | £10,000,000 |
| Communication and Connectivity Products and Services FrameworkCommunications equipment | Open | 2 Sept 2026 | £10,000,000 |
| Temporary and Permanent Staffing 2 FrameworkRecruitment services | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2026 | £150,000,000 |
| Building Cleaning Services 5Cleaning services | Open | 13 Aug 2026 | £3,000,000,000 |
| Preliminary Market Engagement - Building Materials, Tools & Hardware SuppliesBuilding materials | Planning | 10 Aug 2026 | £10,000,000 |
| The Mercian Trust Waste Management ServicesRefuse and waste related services | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2026 | £400,000 |
| Preliminary Market Engagement - Office & Education Supplies FrameworkStationery | Planning | 5 Aug 2026 | £25,000,000 |
| Security Equipment & Associated ServicesAccess control system | Open | 3 Aug 2026 | £10,428,801 |
| Provision of Supply Teachers and Educational Staff | Awarded / complete | 31 Jul 2026 | — |
| Outsourced Catering Services 5Catering services | Open | 9 Jul 2026 | £1,499,999,982 |
| NPTC - Emergency LightingArtificial and natural lighting engineering services for buildings | Open | 9 Jul 2026 | £162,000 |
| Renewable Energy ConsortiumEnergy and related services | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2026 | £700,000,000 |
| CPC/RB/01/2025 - Software Licences & Associated Services for Academies and SchoolsData security software package | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2026 | £12,000,000 |
| Electronic Payment MethodsMiscellaneous software package and computer systems | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2026 | £5,000,000 |
| NPTC - Unified CommunicationsDedicated-business telephone network services | Open | 30 Jun 2026 | £420,000 |
| Estates and Facilities Professional ServicesArchitectural | Planned | 29 May 2026 | — |
| Office SuppliesVarious office equipment and supplies | Planned | 20 May 2026 | £25,000,000 |
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.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 316 of 317 published contracts have an end date; 242 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- 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.