Low Pay Commission: 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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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
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Research relating to the impacts of the minimum wage, 2-year projects (open call) | 27 Oct 2026 | 1d | £100,000 |
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
73 Research and development services11 procedures · 100% · 1 openHow 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 · 11 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.
Contract100%(11 notices)
11 of 11 notices are Contract (100%).
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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.
Open100%(11 notices)
11 of 11 notices are Open (100%).
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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 11 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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| Lancaster University | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | — |
| YOUGOV PLC | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | — |
| University of the West of England Bristol | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Smart Data Foundry | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | — |
| LONDON ECONOMICS | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | — |
5 awarded procedures across 5 suppliers: too few to describe concentration.
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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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| The impact of the minimum wage on productivity (longer-term projects) | University of the West of England Bristol | — | 1.8 yrs | £75,052 † ≈ £43k/yr |
| Employment effects of the National Living Wage | Smart Data Foundry | — | 2.1 yrs | £73,116 † ≈ £35k/yr |
| Open Call for research relating to the National Minimum Wage including National Living Wage | LONDON ECONOMICS | — | 10 mo | £39,255 † |
| Research into young people's experience of the labour market and minimum wages | Lancaster University | — | 1 yrs | £34,968 † ≈ £35k/yr |
| Low Pay Commission call for research on workers' experiences of low-paid work | YOUGOV PLC | — | 7 mo | £24,895 † |
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.
5 of 5 contracts carry an end date · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Open Call for research relating to the National Minimum Wage including National Living Wage | LONDON ECONOMICS | 31 Dec 2026 | £39,255 |
| Research into young people's experience of the labour market and minimum wages | Lancaster University | 30 Mar 2027 | £34,968 |
| The impact of the minimum wage on productivity (longer-term projects) | University of the West of England Bristol | 31 Dec 2027 | £75,052 |
| Employment effects of the National Living Wage | Smart Data Foundry | 30 Mar 2028 | £73,116 |
Recent procedures
Latest 11 of 11 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research relating to the impacts of the minimum wage, 1-year projects (open call)Research and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 13 Jul 2026 | £60,000 |
| Survey-based research on workers' experiences of low-paid workResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 13 Jul 2026 | £50,000 |
| The impact of the minimum wage on productivity (longer-term projects)Research and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2026 | £80,000 |
| Employment effects of the National Living WageResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2026 | £80,000 |
| Open Call for research relating to the National Minimum Wage including National Living WageResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2026 | £45,000 |
| Research into young people's experience of the labour market and minimum wagesResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2026 | £35,000 |
| Research related to the youth and apprentice rates of the minimum wage (2-year projects)Research and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 19 Dec 2025 | £80,000 |
| Research relating to the Apprentice Rate of the minimum wageResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 19 Dec 2025 | £40,000 |
| Quantitative research into the impacts of recent increases in the youth rates of the UK minimum wageResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 19 Dec 2025 | £40,000 |
| Low Pay Commission call for research on workers' experiences of low-paid workResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 27 Oct 2025 | £25,000 |
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. 5 of 5 published contracts have an end date; 0 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.