The Police & Crime Commissioner for Sussex: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Police & fireSouth East EnglandLewes

Official UK PPONPPLN-2959-YWYQ

Open now3next deadline 2 Nov 2026
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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 months77+40% vs prior 12 months (55)
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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 lot214.3% single-bid · 7 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 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share11%of 125 awarded procedures · 99 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.

125 awarded tenders, 99 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months246 within 6 months · 1 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£574mnet · on 95 of 95 published values · top 5 = 97%
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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

3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

All 3 open notices for this authority →

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 · 132 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.

  • Contract92%(122 notices)
    122 of 132 notices are Contract (92%).
  • Framework8%(10 notices)
    10 of 132 notices are Framework (8%).
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.

  • Limited / restricted43%(57 notices)
    57 of 132 notices are Limited / restricted (43%).
  • Direct award36%(47 notices)
    47 of 132 notices are Direct award (36%).
  • Open12%(16 notices)
    16 of 132 notices are Open (12%).
  • Route not published6%(8 notices)
    8 of 132 notices are Route not published (6%).
  • Selective3%(4 notices)
    4 of 132 notices are Selective (3%).
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 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2robust · n=714.3% 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 7 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

42 daysrobust · n=7
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 132 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

013 of 132 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 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

33.7% below estimateindicative · n=2

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
Softcat Plc75.6%6729 Jul 2026
WPC Software Ltd43.2%444 Aug 2026
Phoenix Software Ltd32.4%3323 Mar 2026
VISAV LTD.32.4%3317 Dec 2025
SOLARWINDS SOFTWARE UK LIMITED32.4%3330 Jun 2026
BT GROUP PLC32.4%33—
NEC Software Solutions LTD32.4%33—
Compass Contract Services (UK) Ltd21.6%253 Mar 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 125 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 99 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.

£574mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 95 of 95 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 97%; a further 16 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.
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.

£111k middle valuerobust · n=95Middle half £55k–£216k.
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
Support & Maintenance of the Niche Police Records Management SystemNiche Technology UK Limited23 Feb 20265 yrs£519,375,146
≈ £104m/yr
Provision of Surrey Police and Sussex Police Standby DR SolutionWest Pier Telecom Ltd——£19,474,093 †
Provision of Microsoft Licencing Azure Storage and ConsultancyPhoenix Software Ltd——£10,600,872 †
Liquid FuelsCertas Energy UK Limited——£3,400,000 †
Project Management and Quantity Surveying ServicesRIDGE AND PARTNERS LLP——£3,000,000 †

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.

55 of 115 contracts carry an end date, 1 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 24 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 140 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Police Medical Appeals BoardMedical specialist servicesAwarded / complete17 Sept 2026—
Vehicle ConversionsAwarded / complete15 Sept 2026—
Vehicle Glass ReplacementWindscreen replacement servicesAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026—
Night Safety Marshall SchemePublic law and order servicesPlanned21 Aug 2026£120,000
Histology ServicesAwarded / complete21 Aug 2026—
Calibration and maintenance of Laser Speed CamerasAwarded / complete20 Aug 2026—
Anti-Social Driving Case Management System with Public Facing Website interface.Business transaction and personal business software packagePlanning19 Aug 2026—
Toyota Vehicle PurchaseMotor vehiclesAwarded / complete19 Aug 2026—
Cyc Firearms Document Management System​FrameworkAwarded / complete13 Aug 2026—
Carbine weapon scope and mountsAwarded / complete12 Aug 2026—
Promotion Focussed InterventionsAwarded / complete6 Aug 2026—
AI Camera TrialAwarded / complete6 Aug 2026—
Pangdean VenueAwarded / complete5 Aug 2026—
Core-Vet Licencing and SupportAwarded / complete5 Aug 2026—
Provision of PINS - Prisoner Intelligence Notification SystemPrison servicesAwarded / complete27 Jul 2026—
Operational catering2 lotsCatering servicesAwarded / complete15 Jul 2026£825,000
Public Access SolutionAwarded / complete15 Jul 2026—
Multi-Functional DevicesOffice machineryAwarded / complete7 Jul 2026—
Inn Keeper - Liquor Licence system - support and maintenanceAwarded / complete6 Jul 2026—
Inn Keeper - Liquor Licence system - support and maintenanceAwarded / complete6 Jul 2026—

Search all 140 procedures for this authority →

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. 55 of 115 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.