Department of Finance: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Central governmentNorthern IrelandBelfast

Official UK PPONPVTL-7513-YWVJ

Open now1next deadline 2 Nov 2026
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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.

Notices, last 12 months19+27% vs prior 12 months (15)
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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 lot234.4% single-bid · 32 bid reports
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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 32 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share13%of 79 awarded procedures · 111 suppliers
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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.

79 awarded tenders, 111 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months205 within 6 months · 16 estimated
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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.

Published award value, 24m£861mnet · on 32 of 32 published values · top 5 = 78%
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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

1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
DoF - Collaborative Arrangement - Provision of Metered Electricity 2027-20302 Nov 20263d£400,000,000

What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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 · 34 notices · commercial tool and route 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.

  • Contract82%(28 notices)
    28 of 34 notices are Contract (82%).
  • Framework18%(6 notices)
    6 of 34 notices are Framework (18%).
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.

  • Open68%(23 notices)
    23 of 34 notices are Open (68%).
  • Route not published15%(5 notices)
    5 of 34 notices are Route not published (15%).
  • Selective9%(3 notices)
    3 of 34 notices are Selective (9%).
  • Direct award6%(2 notices)
    2 of 34 notices are Direct award (6%).
  • Limited / restricted3%(1 notice)
    1 of 34 notices is Limited / restricted (3%).
Typical bids per lot
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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 32 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2robust · n=3234.4% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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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 17 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

34 daysrobust · n=17
Notice amendments
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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 34 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

121 of 34 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 26 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=26

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
POWER NI ENERGY LIMITED45.1%146 Jan 2026
ERNST YOUNG LLPframework/DPS on 233.8%25—
WHISTL UK LIMITED33.8%1331 Mar 2026
ANDERSON SPRATT GROUP LTDframework/DPS on 233.8%135 Aug 2025
HORIZON ENERGY GROUP LIMITED33.8%03—
Oasis Group NI22.5%144 Dec 2025
Data Dispatch Limited22.5%1329 Jun 2026
EBSCO INTERNATIONAL INC22.5%1331 Jul 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 79 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 111 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£861mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 32 of 32 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 78%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£3.1m middle valuerobust · n=32Middle half £1.7m–£18m.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Lot 2 - Administration roles (excluding DfC) and Corporate FunctionsThe UK Recruitment Co Ltd24 Jun 20263.3 yrs · up to 8.3 yrs£300,000,000
≈ £92m/yr
DoF – Collaborative Arrangement – Provision of Natural Gas 2026 -2029 (ID 5828888)Firmus Energy (Supply) Limited16 Jan 20263 yrs£202,000,000
≈ £67m/yr
DoF - Collaborative Arrangement - Provision of Unmetered Electricity 2026 - 2029POWER NI ENERGY LIMITED6 Jan 20263 yrs£66,000,000
≈ £22m/yr
Lot 4 - Environmental, Scientific Services and Medical Roles (excluding OHS medical roles)JDR RECRUITMENT LIMITED24 Jun 20263.3 yrs · up to 8.3 yrs£55,000,000
≈ £17m/yr
ID 5831752 - The Provision of Postal Services for the Northern Ireland Civil Service and Participating BodiesWHISTL UK LIMITED31 Mar 20263 yrs · up to 7 yrs£47,000,000
≈ £16m/yr

Contracts ending
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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.

93 of 123 contracts carry an end date, 59 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 20 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 104 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
DoF Collaborative Supply of Biomass Fuels (Wood Pellets) 2024-2030 (ID 4668579)central purchasing bodyWood fuelsAwarded / complete22 Aug 2024£7,200,000
DoF – Collaborative Arrangement – Supply and Delivery of Vehicle Spare Parts 2024 – 2028 (Mitsubishi, Unimog) - ID5321283Frameworkcentral purchasing bodyMechanical spare parts except engines and engine partsUnsuccessful2 Aug 2024£740,000
Provision of Offsite StorageStorage and retrieval servicesNot published5 Jun 2024—
DoF - Civil Service Pensions (CSP) Systems Projectcentral purchasing bodyComputer support and consultancy servicesOpen28 May 2024£20,000,000
Department of Finance – Occupational Health Service – Core Services Market Sounding Exercise (PME)central purchasing bodyHealth and social work servicesPlanned9 Apr 2024£1
ID 5247749 Department of Finance - Land and Property Services - Oracle Software Support and MaintenanceIT services: consultingAwarded / complete9 Apr 2024—
ID 5310182 - DAC 36/24 - DoF - Enterprise Digital Development - Digital Verification for NICS Identity Assurance Contractcentral purchasing bodyIT services: consultingAwarded / complete29 Mar 2024—
DoF – Collaborative arrangement – Supply and delivery of garage sundries (ID 4670174)central purchasing bodyBolts and screwsAwarded / complete27 Feb 2024£3,549,000
DoF – Collaborative Arrangement – Provision of Vehicle and Plant Hire 2024 – 2028 (ID 4668634)Frameworkcentral purchasing body2 lotsAgricultural machineryAwarded / complete27 Feb 2024£15,000,000

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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. 93 of 123 published contracts have an end date; 59 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.