UK Research and Innovation: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public body·Central government·South West England·SWINDON·Ran 3 procurements for other authorities·Central purchasing body on 1,695 of 2,912 notices
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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 117 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.
3,327 awarded tenders, 2,071 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
9 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| UKRI-5720 Magnetic Bearing Drive systems for ISIS Neutron Disc Choppers | 2 Nov 2026 | 5d | £2,100,000 |
| UKRI-6111 The provision of an independent national body to deliver the vision of the national electrification skills framework and forum | 5 Nov 2026 | 8d | £660,000 |
| UKRI-6347 - Trusted AI Adoption | 5 Nov 2026 | 8d | £800,000 |
| UKRI-6358 Testing and Evaluation of Counter-UAS (Drone) | 6 Nov 2026 | 9d | £80,000 |
| UKRI-6157 - Employee Screening Service | 9 Nov 2026 | 12d | £1,400,000 |
| UKRI-6017-METIUS | 16 Nov 2026 | 19d | £166,667 |
| UKRI-6064 ISP-1157 Replacement of Large ISIS Power Supply System | 23 Nov 2026 | 26d | £3,000,000 |
| UKRI-6032 Registered Building Inspector Services | 27 Nov 2026 | 30d | £2,500,000 |
| UKRI-6349 UPLiFT Refrigerant-based Helium Gas Cooler | 17 Dec 2026 | 50d | £140,000 |
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting64 procedures · 2% · 2 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering42 procedures · 1% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services41 procedures · 1%38 Laboratory, optical and precision35 procedures · 1%45 Construction work35 procedures · 1%48 Software package and information systems24 procedures · 1%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet24 procedures · 1%42 Industrial machinery22 procedures · 1% · 2 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 · 2,912 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.
Contract99%(2,869 notices)
2,869 of 2,912 notices are Contract (99%).Framework1%(42 notices)
42 of 2,912 notices are Framework (1%).Dynamic purchasing system0%(1 notice)
1 of 2,912 notices is Dynamic purchasing system (0%).
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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 award54%(1,586 notices)
1,586 of 2,912 notices are Direct award (54%).Limited / restricted35%(1,007 notices)
1,007 of 2,912 notices are Limited / restricted (35%).Open6%(181 notices)
181 of 2,912 notices are Open (6%).Route not published4%(120 notices)
120 of 2,912 notices are Route not published (4%).Selective1%(18 notices)
18 of 2,912 notices are Selective (1%).
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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 117 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 109 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 2,912 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 65 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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| Jisc Services Ltd | 24 | 0.7% | 19 | 24 | 6 Mar 2026 |
| PHOTONIC SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 23 | 0.7% | 15 | 24 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| Life Technologies Ltd | 17 | 0.5% | 14 | 17 | 13 Jan 2026 |
| Johnston Property Maintenance Ltd | 16 | 0.5% | 16 | 16 | 13 May 2026 |
| DH Building Services Oxford Ltd | 15 | 0.5% | 15 | 15 | 27 Feb 2026 |
| Softcat Plc | 14 | 0.4% | 13 | 14 | — |
| EGKenn Vacuum Technology SP. Z O. O. | 13 | 0.4% | 13 | 13 | 3 Apr 2026 |
| ANSYS UK Ltd | 13 | 0.4% | 11 | 13 | 9 Mar 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 2% of 3,327 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 2,071 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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| UKRI-4680 Programme Management Partner for UKRI-Science and Technology Facilities Council | CPC Project Services (UK) LLP | 19 Jun 2026 | 8 yrs | £16,000,000 ≈ £2.0m/yr |
| UKRI-5543 Cryoplant for the National Cryogenic Facility | Air Liquide Advanced Technologies | 17 Aug 2026 | 1.6 yrs | £15,138,407 ≈ £9.6m/yr |
| Medical Provision for the British Antarctic Survey | UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS PLYMOUTH | 5 May 2026 | 4 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £9,000,000 ≈ £2.3m/yr |
| UKRI 5505 - STFC Firewall Refresh 2025 | Insight Direct | — | — | £7,228,048 † |
| UKRI-5440 - Control Systems for Superconducting Quantum Computing Research | Zurich Instruments AG | 20 Mar 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £6,484,406 ≈ £6.5m/yr |
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.
2,807 of 3,337 contracts carry an end date, 259 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| UKRI-6300 Villas Building Additional Works | Navigate Scaffolding Ltd | 27 Oct 2026 | £124,679 |
| CSP26949 - Retarmacking of road surface | DH Building Services Oxford Ltd | 27 Oct 2026 | £39,800 |
| UKRI-5101 MRC LMB Renewal of Nikon iSim TIRF microscopes | Nikon UK, Branch of Nikon Europe BV | 28 Oct 2026 | £51,400 |
| DDaT25484 - Software License | Specialist Computer Centres Plc | 28 Oct 2026 | £22,253 |
| DDaT25456 - Cloud monitoring | Softcat Plc | 28 Oct 2026 | £36,533 |
| CSP26602 - Early Careers Public Engagement Training | Science Made Simple Ltd | 28 Oct 2026 | £14,364 |
| DDaT26389 - Hardware | Creotech Quantum SA | 28 Oct 2026 | €15,945 |
| CSP26611 - Laboratory Leadership Course | EMBO Solutions GmbH | 29 Oct 2026 | €22,000 |
| CSP26801 - Event Services | The RCP Regent's Park Ltd | 29 Oct 2026 | £48,690 |
| CSP26087 | Electron Beam Processes Ltd | 30 Oct 2026 | £12,377 |
Soonest 10 of 820 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 3,697 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. 2,807 of 3,337 published contracts have an end date; 259 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.