Foreign affairs and other services: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition
CPV 75210000·Services · class·in Administration, defence and social security services
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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 for a lot here.
The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 14 lots from 14 competitions run by 3 buyers, last 36 months. A buyer with many similar contests counts only up to a limit. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 9.5) and 12 from older notices (bids received, middle 5.5).
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What a contract here is usually worth.
Middle value of published award values, VAT excluded. Framework ceilings are left out because they are not real contract values.
Based on 27 awards with a usable value, last 36 months.
Published values, not actual spend.
Codes and neighbouring classes
The 8-digit CPV codes notices in this class actually use, and the other classes of the same division
75211200 Foreign economic-aid-related services252 notices · 95%75210000 Foreign affairs and other services8 notices · 3%75211000 Foreign-affairs services3 notices · 1%75211100 Diplomatic services1 notices · <1%75211110 Consular services1 notices · <1%- Justice services 78 · 12m
- Provision of services to the community 78 · 12m
- Administrative services of agencies 77 · 12m
- Fire-brigade and rescue services 65 · 12m
- Public security, law and order services 52 · 12m
- Administration services 40 · 12m
- General public services 31 · 12m
- Benefit services 30 · 12m
- Supporting services for the government 13 · 12m
- Defence services 7 · 12m
- All of Administration, defence and social security services →
Who buysi
Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.
Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.
All notices carrying this code · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), else derived from the authority name
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.
Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.
Central government97%(256 notices)
256 of 264 notices are Central government (97%).Local authorities0%(1 notices)
1 of 264 notices are Local authorities (0%).Education & universities0%(1 notices)
1 of 264 notices are Education & universities (0%).Not classified2%(6 notices)
6 of 264 notices are Not classified (2%).
| Contracting authority | Type | Notices | Last 12 months | Open now |
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| Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | Central government | 217 | 31 | 0 |
| Department for Energy Security & Net Zero | Central government | 27 | 2 | 0 |
| Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy | Central government | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Defra Network eTendering Portal | not classified | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS | Central government | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Business Energy and Industrial Strategy | not classified | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Department of Health & Social Care | Central government | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Development Bank of Wales | Central government | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| FCDO Kenya | not classified | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| The North Yorkshire Council | Local authorities | 1 | 1 | 0 |
11 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.
Where the work is deliveredi
Where the work on these notices is delivered.
Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.
Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.
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Where the work on these notices is delivered.
Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.
Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.
Delivery regions (ITL1) published on 51 of 264 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months, lots delivered in the region
| Region | Notices | Bids / lot | SME wins | Local wins |
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| Scotland | — | — | — | |
| Greater London | — | 10% | — | |
| South East England | — | — | — | |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | — | — | — |
Local wins = the winner’s registered region is the delivery region. Dashes: fewer than ten observations.
How it is boughti
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.
Commercial tool, procedure route and threshold 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.
Contract98%(258 notices)
258 of 264 notices are Contract (98%).Framework2%(6 notices)
6 of 264 notices are Framework (2%).
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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.
Route not published61%(160 notices)
160 of 264 notices are Route not published (61%).Open22%(58 notices)
58 of 264 notices are Open (22%).Limited / restricted11%(30 notices)
30 of 264 notices are Limited / restricted (11%).Selective5%(12 notices)
12 of 264 notices are Selective (5%).Direct award2%(4 notices)
4 of 264 notices are Direct award (2%).
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How much of this market is above the legal threshold.
Notices by whether the buyer marked them above or below the threshold that triggers the full rules.
Above threshold100%(37 notices)
37 of 37 notices are Above threshold (100%).
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How long bidders get to respond.
Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.
Competition
Contracts published in the last 36 months (62) · bid counts per lot from award notices · values are net contract awards, framework and DPS ceilings excluded · SME and local status as declared
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid7%(1)
1 of 14 lots fall in 1 bid (7%).2–329%(4)
4 of 14 lots fall in 2–3 (29%).4–629%(4)
4 of 14 lots fall in 4–6 (29%).7 or more36%(5)
5 of 14 lots fall in 7 or more (36%).
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The usual range of contract values here.
The middle half of published award values, VAT excluded, with the middle value marked. Framework ceilings are left out.
Published values, not actual spend.
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How many companies usually bid for a lot here.
The middle value of the bid counts that award notices publish, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 14 lots from 14 competitions run by 3 buyers, last 36 months. A buyer with many similar contests counts only up to a limit. 2 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 9.5) and 12 from older notices (bids received, middle 5.5).
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How much of this market is actually put out to competition.
Notices run as an open or selective procedure, out of all notices that say which procedure was used. Direct awards count as not competed.
33 of 53 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 9 more give no procedure and are left out.
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What share of bids come from small and medium firms.
SME bids divided by all bids, on lots where the buyer published the split.
12 SME bids out of 32, on 5 lots where the buyer published the split.
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What share of contracts go to small and medium firms.
Awards to a single supplier that declared its size. SME divided by all.
4 of 25 awards where the winner declared its size.
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How often a tender ends with no award.
Notices cancelled, withdrawn or marked unsuccessful, plus terminated ones that never got an award.
2 of 62 notices, last 36 months.
Only what buyers published. Tenders that quietly went nowhere are not counted.
Who winsi
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.
Ranked by distinct procedures won on notices carrying this code, then award records · 145 awards to 72 suppliers · the five most frequent winners hold 46% of contract awards in the last 36 months
| Supplier | Procedures | Awards | Last 12 months | Buyers |
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| Palladium International Limited | 14 | 14 | 0 | 1 |
| Mott MacDonald | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 |
| DAI Global (UK) Limited | 6 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| NIRAS Group (UK) Ltd | 5 | 6 | 0 | 2 |
| Oxford Policy Management Limited | 5 | 6 | 0 | 1 |
| Tetra Tech International Development Limited | 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 |
| Cowater International | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 |
| Integrity Global Ltd | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
Where to submiti
Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
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Where bids for this work are submitted.
Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.
E-sourcing portals named in the submission address · 57 of 264 notices name one · each portal page explains registration
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.
- What counts here. Every notice with a CPV code starting 7521. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Notices from 2021 to 21 Oct 2026.
- Competition. Bids and winners cover the last three years and count each lot as its own contest; frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems are shown apart from ordinary contracts.
- Why no total spend. Notice estimates often repeat a framework’s ceiling, so adding them up would overstate the market. Typical contract values are shown instead.
- 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.