Intellectual Property Office: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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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 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.
35 awarded tenders, 29 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.
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, internet6 procedures · 16%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting3 procedures · 8%80 Education and training services3 procedures · 8%32 Radio, television, communication1 procedure · 3%48 Software package and information systems1 procedure · 3%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedure · 3%92 Recreational, cultural and sporting1 procedure · 3%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 · 37 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.
Contract97%(36 notices)
36 of 37 notices are Contract (97%).Framework3%(1 notice)
1 of 37 notices is Framework (3%).
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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 award54%(20 notices)
20 of 37 notices are Direct award (54%).Open19%(7 notices)
7 of 37 notices are Open (19%).Route not published14%(5 notices)
5 of 37 notices are Route not published (14%).Limited / restricted8%(3 notices)
3 of 37 notices are Limited / restricted (8%).Selective5%(2 notices)
2 of 37 notices are Selective (5%).
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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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 37 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 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| NLA Media Access Limited | 3 | 8.6% | 3 | 3 | — |
| THOMSON REUTERS (PROFESSIONAL) UK LIMITED | 2 | 5.7% | 1 | 3 | 1 Sept 2025 |
| Mintel Group Ltd | 2 | 5.7% | 1 | 3 | 10 Nov 2025 |
| CLARIVATE ANALYTICS | 2 | 5.7% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Empyrean Digital Limited | 2 | 5.7% | 0 | 2 | — |
| Daisy Communications Limited | 1 | 2.9% | 1 | 2 | 4 Feb 2026 |
| Softcat Plc | 1 | 2.9% | 1 | 1 | 26 Oct 2026 |
| INVESTORS IN PEOPLE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY | 1 | 2.9% | 1 | 1 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 20% of 35 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 29 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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| Provision of Workday Licences | Softcat Plc | — | 6 yrs | £3,388,614 ≈ £565k/yr |
| Provision of Work day Implementation Partner | Cognizant Worldwide Ltd | 9 Oct 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £1,398,431 ≈ £699k/yr |
| Law Enforcement Community Network (LECN) | Home Office | 4 Aug 2026 | 4.8 yrs | £870,698 ≈ £180k/yr |
| Provision of Certificate/Diploma in Law and Intellectual Property (DipLIP) | USW Commercial Services Ltd | — | 4 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £527,950 † ≈ £132k/yr |
| CommercialTransformation@ipo.gov.uk | Hitachi Solutions Europe Ltd | 17 Jul 2026 | 6 mo · up to 0.8 yrs | £475,996 |
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.
22 of 30 contracts carry an end date, 1 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Global Trademark & Patent Cases (Darts IP) | CLARIVATE ANALYTICS | 31 Oct 2026 | €18,316 |
| Complete Freedom Collection | Jisc | 31 Dec 2026 | £19,868 |
| Investors in People Accreditation | INVESTORS IN PEOPLE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY | 28 Feb 2027 | £23,300 |
| Provision of IP Related Intelligence 2025-27 | Treble 5 Treble 1 Limited | 31 Mar 2027 | £62,240 |
| NLA Media Access Licence | NLA Media Access Limited | 30 Jun 2027 | £29,822 |
| Prov. of Research Support: Counter-Infringement Strat. & IP Crime Syst. Design | The Royal United Services Institute | 1 Aug 2027 | £98,799 |
| Mintel Databases | Mintel Group Ltd | 31 Oct 2027 | £150,326 |
| Royal Society of Chemistry | Royal Society of Chemistry | 10 Nov 2027 | £13,350 |
| Provision of Mobile Telecoms Services | Daisy Communications Limited | 28 Feb 2028 | £49,291 |
| Provision of Marketing Campaigns Services | Lansons Communications Holdings Limited | 25 Mar 2028 estimated | Not published |
Recent procedures
Latest 47 of 47 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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| IPO Transformation Programme - Phase 1 Client Side Support ServicesProject-management services other than for construction work | Awarded / complete | 20 Nov 2023 | — |
| Mintel Database AccessDatabase systems | Awarded / complete | 1 Aug 2023 | — |
| Provision of Consultancy for Music Streaming MetadataCopyright consultancy services | Open | 24 Mar 2023 | — |
| Open Banking Payment ServicesBanking services | Planned | 27 Feb 2023 | £300,000 |
| Derwent World Patent IndexPatent and copyright consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 21 Dec 2022 | — |
| Westlaw subscription 2022-2025Subscription services | Awarded / complete | 20 Oct 2022 | — |
| CCTV Upgrade WorksClosed-circuit surveillance system | Awarded / complete | 24 May 2022 | — |
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. 22 of 30 published contracts have an end date; 1 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.