Met 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 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 12 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.
368 awarded tenders, 279 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
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Mooring Ropes and Thimbles | 9 Nov 2026 | 14d | £600,000 |
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, internet9 procedures · 3%48 Software package and information systems8 procedures · 2%34 Transport equipment and products4 procedures · 1% · 1 open32 Radio, television, communication3 procedures · 1%38 Laboratory, optical and precision3 procedures · 1%73 Research and development services3 procedures · 1%80 Education and training services3 procedures · 1%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 1%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 · 358 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%(346 notices)
346 of 358 notices are Contract (97%).Framework3%(12 notices)
12 of 358 notices are 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 award66%(236 notices)
236 of 358 notices are Direct award (66%).Limited / restricted12%(43 notices)
43 of 358 notices are Limited / restricted (12%).Route not published10%(35 notices)
35 of 358 notices are Route not published (10%).Open6%(22 notices)
22 of 358 notices are Open (6%).Selective6%(22 notices)
22 of 358 notices are Selective (6%).
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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 12 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 16 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 355 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 11 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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| Computacenter (UK) Ltd | 11 | 3% | 10 | 12 | 15 Jul 2026 |
| University of Exeter | 10 | 2.7% | 9 | 22 | 7 Sept 2026 |
| IBM Group | 8 | 2.2% | 8 | 9 | 21 Apr 2026 |
| Campbell Scientific Limited | 8 | 2.2% | 8 | 8 | 16 Mar 2026 |
| IBM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED | 7 | 1.9% | 7 | 8 | 24 Sept 2025 |
| boxxe Limited | 7 | 1.9% | 7 | 7 | — |
| UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY | 7 | 1.9% | 7 | 7 | 8 Oct 2026 |
| UNIVERSITY OF READING | 7 | 1.9% | 6 | 17 | 27 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 368 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 279 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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| Space Weather Delivery Partner | CACI Ltd | 12 Dec 2025 | 5 yrs · up to 7.1 yrs | £15,000,000 ≈ £3.0m/yr |
| NG-LFRic Project: LFRic Modelling Code Computational Performance Optimisation and Input/Output API infrastructure functionality development in XIOS - Third Procurement Stage Oct 2026 - March 2028 | The University of Edinburgh | 7 Sept 2026 | 1.5 yrs · up to 2.5 yrs | £1,268,467 ≈ £846k/yr |
| Data as a Service Capability | Synoptic Data PBC | 18 Nov 2025 | 2 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £1,125,598 ≈ £563k/yr |
| Procurement for the redevelopment of EUMETNET observations data hubs and ongoing support on behalf of the Met Office | Synoptic Data PBC | 29 May 2026 | 2.8 yrs · up to 7.5 yrs | £744,515 ≈ £271k/yr |
| Psyclone Development and Support 2026-27 | British Geological Survey | 10 Jun 2026 | 9 mo | £730,000 |
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.
369 of 381 contracts carry an end date, 15 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Exec Search Recruitment Campaign | MOON CONSULTING LIMITED | 30 Oct 2026 | £24,000 |
| Ad Serving Platform (Google Ad Manager) | Incubeta | 31 Oct 2026 | £144,000 |
| Springer Journal Renewals | SPRINGER NATURE LIMITED | 31 Oct 2026 | €52,634 |
| HPSS Software Support Renewal | IBM Group | 31 Oct 2026 | £85,013 |
| MASS Library Solution Support Renewal | Oracle Corporation UK Limited | 31 Oct 2026 | £93,425 |
| Electrical adjustable desk frames for the office | Alpha Marketing UK Ltd | 5 Nov 2026 | £14,076 |
| Barometer instrumentation | VAISALA LTD | 6 Nov 2026 | £27,430 |
| Annual Renewal of Artifactory Software Subscription | JFROG UK LIMITED | 21 Nov 2026 | £55,200 |
| Marine Network Support Services | National Oceanography Centre | 24 Nov 2026 estimated | Not published |
| Marine Network Support Services | The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond | 24 Nov 2026 estimated | Not published |
Soonest 10 of 131 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 391 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. 369 of 381 published contracts have an end date; 15 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.