Transport Focus: 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.
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting5 procedures · 42%30 Office and computing machinery2 procedures · 17%44 Construction structures and materials2 procedures · 17%48 Software package and information systems1 procedure · 8%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 procedure · 8%73 Research and development services1 procedure · 8%98 Other community, social and personal services1 procedure · 8%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 · 12 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%(12 notices)
12 of 12 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.
Open83%(10 notices)
10 of 12 notices are Open (83%).Direct award8%(1 notice)
1 of 12 notices is Direct award (8%).Route not published8%(1 notice)
1 of 12 notices is Route not published (8%).
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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 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 12 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 1 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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| Phoenix Software Ltd | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | — |
| BEYOND WORDS STUDIO LIMITED | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | — |
| SOMETHING INC LIMITED | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Migo Consult | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | — |
| GGI Development and Research LLP | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Thomas Ableman Limited (Trading as Freewheeling) | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | — |
| UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 29 Jan 2026 |
| Wavenet | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 20 Mar 2025 |
8 awarded procedures across 8 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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| Qualitative Research - British Sign Language Users on Rail | UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER | 29 Jan 2026 | 3 mo | £60,000 |
| Lenovo Laptops | Wavenet | 20 Mar 2025 | — | £58,200 |
| Rail Customer Experience Survey data visualisation and communications support | BEYOND WORDS STUDIO LIMITED | — | 4 mo | £50,000 † |
| Microsoft M365 Licensing | Phoenix Software Ltd | — | 1 yrs | £15,000 † ≈ £15k/yr |
| Advice on Staffing and Technical Needs for a New Data Service | Migo Consult | — | 1 mo · up to 0.2 yrs | £14,750 † |
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.
7 of 7 contracts carry an end date · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Microsoft M365 Licensing | Phoenix Software Ltd | 31 May 2027 | £15,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 17 of 17 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Qualitative Research - British Sign Language Users on RailResearch services | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2026 | £60,000 |
| Microsoft M365 LicensingSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 7 Apr 2026 | £15,000 |
| Brand Identity Development for the New Passenger WatchdogMarketing services | Awarded / complete | 24 Feb 2026 | £15,000 |
| Rail Customer Experience Survey data visualisation and communications supportBusiness and management consultancy and related services | Awarded / complete | 17 Feb 2026 | £50,000 |
| Lenovo LaptopsHardware | Open | 17 Feb 2026 | £40,000 |
| Webinar Programme SupportBusiness and management consultancy and related services | Awarded / complete | 3 Feb 2026 | £5,000 |
| Board Effectiveness Review | Awarded / complete | 15 Dec 2025 | — |
| Advice on Staffing and Technical Needs for a New Data ServiceSystems consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 3 Dec 2025 | £20,000 |
| Lorry Driver Facilities Survey Year ThreeMarket research services | Open | 9 May 2025 | £330,000 |
| Board Effectiveness ReviewGeneral management consultancy services | Open | 10 Apr 2025 | £18,333 |
| Lenovo Laptops | Awarded / complete | 24 Mar 2025 | — |
| Lenovo laptopsHardware | Open | 7 Mar 2025 | £70,000 |
| Strategic Roads User Survey 2025-2027Market research services | Open | 13 Sept 2024 | £700,000 |
| Provision of Motorway Services User Survey research between 2024 to 2026Market research services | Open | 1 Nov 2023 | £750,000 |
| Riders, Walkers and Wheelers Research 2023/2024Market research services | Open | 1 Aug 2023 | £123,000 |
| Lorry driver facilities survey roll outMarket research services | Open | 3 Feb 2023 | £330,000 |
| Your Bus JourneyResearch and development services and related consultancy services | Open | 16 Jun 2022 | £1,500,000 |
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. 7 of 7 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.