Invest Northern Ireland: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: OtherCentral governmentNorthern IrelandBelfast

Official UK PPONPLTC-4224-XGDP

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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 months8+14% vs prior 12 months (7)
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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 lot325% single-bid · 8 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 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share19%of 43 awarded procedures · 109 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.

43 awarded tenders, 109 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months76 within 6 months · 5 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£11mnet · on 8 of 8 published values · top 5 = 95%
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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 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 · 15 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.

  • Contract67%(10 notices)
    10 of 15 notices are Contract (67%).
  • Framework33%(5 notices)
    5 of 15 notices are Framework (33%).
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.

  • Open73%(11 notices)
    11 of 15 notices are Open (73%).
  • Route not published27%(4 notices)
    4 of 15 notices are Route not published (27%).
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 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=825% 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 6 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

66 daysrobust · n=6
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 15 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

110 of 15 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 4 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimatemoderate · n=4

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
KPMGframework/DPS on 349.3%04—
Cleaver Fulton Rankinframework/DPS on 337%1185 Dec 2025
CORE CONSULTING BUSINESS GROWTH ADVISORS LTDframework/DPS on 137%19—
GRANT THORNTON NI LLPframework/DPS on 337%136 Aug 2026
Sumer Accountants NI Ltdframework/DPS on 137%03—
Carson McDowell LLPframework/DPS on 224.7%175 Dec 2025
Cogent Management Consulting LLPframework/DPS on 224.7%156 Aug 2026
JNM Exhibition Servicesframework/DPS on 224.7%1411 Dec 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 43 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 109 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.

£11mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 8 of 8 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 95%.
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.

£433k middle valuerobust · n=8Middle half £240k–£1.8m.
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
ID 6262347 - DFE - Invest NI - Event Management ServicesEVENT-FUL CONSULTANCY LTD8 Jul 20262 yrs · up to 5 yrs£6,000,000
≈ £3.0m/yr
DfE - Invest NI - Provision of NI Green Economy IntelligenceOVE ARUP & PARTNERS LIMITED18 Aug 20253 yrs · up to 5 yrs£2,083,333
≈ £694k/yr
ContractINTERNATIONAL SYNERGIES NORTHERN IRELAND LTD——£1,643,118 †
ContractCORE CONSULTING BUSINESS GROWTH ADVISORS LTD——£485,000 †
ContractUniversity of Ulster Business Institute——£381,200 †

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.

79 of 96 contracts carry an end date, 58 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 53 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
ID 5050091 - DfE - Invest NI - Provision of PR and Media Relations Services in India, Middle East and Africa (IMEA) RegionPublic relations consultancy servicesAwarded / complete31 May 2024£400,000
ID 5214618 DFE - INVEST NI - FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT MARKET INTELLIGENCE TOOL AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT LOCATION BENCHMARKING TOOLcentral purchasing body2 lotsData analysis servicesAwarded / complete15 Mar 2024£500,000
ID 5166959 DfE - Invest NI - Provision of Advice and Guidance on NI's Dual Market Access FrameworkFrameworkcentral purchasing body2 lotsBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete14 Mar 2024£200,000
ID 4880468 DfE - InvestNI - Leading within a Group Programmecentral purchasing body2 lotsAdult-education services at university levelAwarded / complete29 Feb 2024£1,050,000
ID 4944997 DfE - Invest NI - Commercial Appraisal Framework AgreementFrameworkcentral purchasing bodyBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete26 Feb 2024£825,906
DfE - Invest NI - Appointment of Auditors for BSDLAccounting and auditing servicesAwarded / complete13 Feb 2024£200,000
DfE - Invest NI - Design, Management and Delivery of the Accelerator Programmecentral purchasing bodyDevelopment consultancy servicesAwarded / complete8 Feb 2024£2,540,000
ID 4880534 DfE - Invest NI - Leadership Coaching and International Sales Leadership Pilotcentral purchasing bodyManagement training servicesAwarded / complete31 Jan 2024£1,345,000
ID 4939800 DfE - Invest NI - Sales Deliverability Appraisal FrameworkFrameworkcentral purchasing bodyBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete10 Jan 2024£490,000
ID 4696443 - DfE- Invest NI - Provision of Drupal Servicescentral purchasing bodyIT services: consultingAwarded / complete10 Jan 2024£1,666,666
ID 4968205 DfE - Invest NI - Provision of Advice and Guidance on NI's Dual Market Access FrameworkFrameworkcentral purchasing body2 lotsBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesCancelled10 Jan 2024£200,000
ID 4842165 DfE- Invest NI - Drupal CMS Support, Maintenance and Development - Pre Market Engagementcentral purchasing bodyIT services: consultingPlanned22 May 2023—
ID 4466524 - DfE - Invest NI Brand Design and Media Services2 lotsAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete9 May 2023£12,000,000
DAC 5/21 - DfE - Invest NI - Oracle Licence Support contractcentral purchasing bodyIT services: consultingAwarded / complete18 Apr 2023—
ID 3083890 Invest NI - Provision of Oracle ERP/Iaas Managed Support ContractIT services: consultingAwarded / complete25 Nov 2022—
DfE - Invest NI – Design Consultants FrameworkFramework4 lotsBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete28 Sept 2022—
DfE - Invest NI - FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAMME FOR CLIENT FACING STAFFcentral purchasing bodyBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete1 Sept 2022£600,000
DfE Invest NI - Provision of Trade Advisory Services in GB and RoIcentral purchasing body9 lotsAdministrationAwarded / complete31 May 2022£2,900,000
DfE Invest NI - Economic Services Framework AgreementFramework2 lotsBusiness and management consultancy servicesAwarded / complete25 Apr 2022—
ID3781692 DfE - Invest NI - Provision of a Legal Services Framework AgreementFramework12 lotsCertification servicesAwarded / complete12 Apr 2022£3,000,000

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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. 79 of 96 published contracts have an end date; 58 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.