Department for Science, Innovation & Technology: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Other·Central government·Greater London·London
Official UK PPONPVWZ-3216-PVQL
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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 24 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.
165 awarded tenders, 144 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.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| UK Space Agency - Operational Support to the International Charter: Space and Major Disasters | 11 Nov 2026 | 15d | £546,693 |
| PS25001 - Scientific Research and Advice for Government Dynamic Purchasing System - Ongoing DPS Application | 9 Feb 2029 | 836d | £9,000,000 |
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
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet32 procedures · 18% · 1 open73 Research and development services23 procedures · 13% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering14 procedures · 8%32 Radio, television, communication6 procedures · 3%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting6 procedures · 3%34 Transport equipment and products5 procedures · 3%38 Laboratory, optical and precision5 procedures · 3%48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 2%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 · 179 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.
Contract98%(175 notices)
175 of 179 notices are Contract (98%).Framework2%(3 notices)
3 of 179 notices are Framework (2%).Dynamic purchasing system1%(1 notice)
1 of 179 notices is 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.
Direct award55%(99 notices)
99 of 179 notices are Direct award (55%).Open18%(33 notices)
33 of 179 notices are Open (18%).Route not published17%(30 notices)
30 of 179 notices are Route not published (17%).Selective9%(16 notices)
16 of 179 notices are Selective (9%).Limited / restricted1%(1 notice)
1 of 179 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 24 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 22 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 179 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 13 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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| NPL Management Limited | 11 | 6.7% | 11 | 13 | 10 Aug 2026 |
| CityFibre Limited | 10 | 6.1% | 0 | 46 | — |
| Royal Institute of Navigation | 4 | 2.4% | 4 | 4 | 9 Mar 2026 |
| LGC LIMITED | 4 | 2.4% | 4 | 4 | 22 Jul 2026 |
| Quickline Communications Limited | 4 | 2.4% | 0 | 16 | — |
| AVELLA SECURITY LIMITED | 3 | 1.8% | 3 | 6 | 29 Jun 2026 |
| Elsevier B.V. | 3 | 1.8% | 3 | 4 | 9 Sept 2025 |
| Feedly Inc | 3 | 1.8% | 3 | 3 | 18 Sept 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 15% of 165 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 144 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| DSIT NMS - NPL Energy and Environment | NPL Management Limited | — | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £362,775,093 ≈ £121m/yr |
| National Timing Centre (NTC) Delivery Programme 2 | NPL Management Limited | 6 Jul 2026 | 3.7 yrs | £180,000,000 ≈ £49m/yr |
| DSIT NMS - NPL Energy and Environment | NPL Management Limited | — | 3 mo | £170,266,960 † |
| DSIT NMS - NPL Energy and Environment | NPL Management Limited | 19 May 2025 | 10 mo | £113,215,548 |
| DSIT NMS LCG Phase 2 (GC & CBM) | LGC LIMITED | 22 Jul 2026 | 2.7 yrs | £36,820,006 ≈ £14m/yr |
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.
285 of 297 contracts carry an end date, 2 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| ERC Research and Related Services | University of Warwick | 30 Oct 2026 | £65,000 |
| API Access - OpenRouter | OpenRouter Inc | 31 Oct 2026 | £104,000 |
| GSE Conference 2026 | Institution of Civil Engineers | 31 Oct 2026 | £91,840 |
| DSIT/NPL Assured Supply Chain iX Delivery | Knowledge Transfer Network | 3 Nov 2026 | £56,000 |
| Reports on the impact of GNSS Interference in the automotive sector | Royal Institute of Navigation | 27 Nov 2026 | £47,160 |
| CSP26640 - Branding Services for the Government Cyber Profession | FCG Worldwide Limited | 8 Dec 2026 | £41,540 |
| Government Office for Technology Transfer - PRIMA 4 | The Helix way | 14 Dec 2026 | £78,415 |
| UK7 ARIA Chair | IRG Advisors LLP trading as Odgers Berndtson | 15 Dec 2026 | £30,400 |
| Business Intelligence Data 2026 | Moody's Analytics UK Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £174,225 |
| UK6 - The Data City | Data City Innovations Limited | 11 Jan 2027 | £12,000 |
Soonest 10 of 47 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 223 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
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. 285 of 297 published contracts have an end date; 2 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.