Northern Ireland Prison Service: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Executive agency·Central government·Northern Ireland·Belfast
Official UK PPONPRMX-2692-MXQX
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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 22 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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, internet4 procedures · 24%32 Radio, television, communication3 procedures · 18%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances3 procedures · 18%64 Postal and telecommunications services3 procedures · 18%15 Food, drink, tobacco2 procedures · 12%18 Clothing, footwear, bags2 procedures · 12%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 12%19 Leather and textile fabrics1 procedures · 6%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 · 17 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%(17 notices)
17 of 17 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.
Open71%(12 notices)
12 of 17 notices are Open (71%).Direct award12%(2 notices)
2 of 17 notices are Direct award (12%).Selective12%(2 notices)
2 of 17 notices are Selective (12%).Route not published6%(1 notices)
1 of 17 notices are Route not published (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 22 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 5 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 17 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 4 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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| Epi-Use Limited | 1 | 100% | 1 | 1 | 19 Mar 2026 |
1 awarded procedures across 1 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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| DoJ – NIPS - Supply and Delivery of General ‘Food to Go’, Sundry Items and Tobacco Items for Tuck Shop 2026 | Withheld Section94 supplier | 9 Jul 2026 | 5 yrs | £16,260,500 ≈ £3.3m/yr |
| Contract | Withheld for security reasons | — | — | £3,500,000 † |
| Lot 3 – Brushes, Mops, Buckets and Accessories | Withheld for security reasons | — | — | £2,365,000 † |
| ID 5949915 - NIPS Supply and Delivery of Toiletries & Personal Hygiene Items for Stores & Tuck Shop 2025 | Withheld Section94 supplier | 7 Nov 2025 | 5 yrs | £2,150,000 ≈ £430k/yr |
| Lot 4 – Cleaning Products and Accessories | Withheld for security reasons | — | — | £1,705,000 † |
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.
48 of 49 contracts carry an end date, 42 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Contract | Information withheld for security reasons | 10 Dec 2026 estimated | £5,500,000 |
| ID 6278672 DOJ DAC 16/25 DOJ - NIPS - SAP Licenses | Withheld Section94 supplier | 31 Dec 2026 | £550,567 |
| Lot 1 – Maghaberry Prison and Hydebank Wood College and Women’s Prison | Information withheld for security reasons | 4 Jul 2027 estimated | £1,300,000 |
| Lot 2 - Magilligan Prison | Information withheld for security reasons | 4 Jul 2027 estimated | £700,000 |
| Lot 4 - Stab Proof Vest | Information withheld for security reasons | 31 Dec 2027 estimated | £300,000 |
| Contract | Information withheld for security reasons | 19 Jan 2028 estimated | £1,000,000 |
| Lot 1 – Delph Plates, Bowls, Beakers, Cups and Saucers | Withheld for security reasons | 6 Feb 2028 estimated | £5,000 |
| Lot 2 – Plastic Jugs, Bowls, Beakers, Bottles and Cooking Utensils | Withheld for security reasons | 6 Feb 2028 estimated | £10,000 |
| Lot 3 – Stainless Steel Cooking Utensils, Cutlery and Containers | Withheld for security reasons | 6 Feb 2028 estimated | £10,000 |
| Lot 4 – Polypropylene and Polycarbonate Items | Withheld for security reasons | 6 Feb 2028 estimated | £300,000 |
Soonest 10 of 18 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 36 of 36 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. 48 of 49 published contracts have an end date; 42 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.