Subscription services: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition
CPV 79980000·Services · class·in Business Services & Consultancy
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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 8 lots from 8 competitions run by 7 buyers, last 36 months. A buyer with many similar contests counts only up to a limit. 3 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 5 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).
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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 544 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
79980000 Subscription services83 notices · 12%- Business and management consultancy services 1,062 · 12m
- Advertising and marketing services 570 · 12m
- Recruitment services 551 · 12m
- Market research services 479 · 12m
- Exhibition, fair and congress organisation services 407 · 12m
- Security services 389 · 12m
- Miscellaneous business-related services 388 · 12m
- Business and management consultancy and related services 340 · 12m
- Accounting and auditing services 340 · 12m
- Legal services 310 · 12m
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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 government57%(383 notices)
383 of 672 notices are Central government (57%).Education & universities22%(150 notices)
150 of 672 notices are Education & universities (22%).Local authorities10%(67 notices)
67 of 672 notices are Local authorities (10%).Other public bodies7%(48 notices)
48 of 672 notices are Other public bodies (7%).Charities1%(4 notices)
4 of 672 notices are Charities (1%).Not classified3%(20 notices)
20 of 672 notices are Not classified (3%).
| Contracting authority | Type | Notices | Last 12 months | Open now |
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| UK Research and Innovation | Central government | 40 | 26 | 0 |
| University of the West of England | Education & universities | 23 | 12 | 0 |
| Coventry University | Education & universities | 20 | 9 | 0 |
| UK Export Finance | Central government | 20 | 11 | 0 |
| University of Strathclyde | Education & universities | 20 | 19 | 0 |
| Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency | Central government | 18 | 9 | 0 |
| National Highways Limited | Central government | 18 | 12 | 0 |
| University of Bedfordshire | Education & universities | 17 | 14 | 0 |
| Corporate Officer of the House of Commons | Central government | 15 | 12 | 0 |
| HMRC Valuation Office | Central government | 14 | 10 | 0 |
197 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 271 of 680 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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| South West England | — | 26% | 18% | |
| East of England | — | 15% | 3% | |
| Greater London | — | 16% | 59% | |
| Yorkshire and the Humber | — | 20% | 3% | |
| South East England | — | 17% | 11% | |
| North West England | — | 20% | 2% | |
| East Midlands | — | 21% | 6% | |
| West Midlands | — | 31% | 2% | |
| North East England | — | 19% | 6% | |
| Wales (Cymru) | — | 14% | 0% | |
| Scotland | — | 5% | 0% | |
| Northern Ireland | — | — | — |
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.
Contract99%(671 notices)
671 of 680 notices are Contract (99%).Framework1%(9 notices)
9 of 680 notices are Framework (1%).
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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 award72%(492 notices)
492 of 680 notices are Direct award (72%).Route not published12%(84 notices)
84 of 680 notices are Route not published (12%).Limited / restricted11%(76 notices)
76 of 680 notices are Limited / restricted (11%).Selective3%(17 notices)
17 of 680 notices are Selective (3%).Open2%(11 notices)
11 of 680 notices are Open (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 threshold71%(5 notices)
5 of 7 notices are Above threshold (71%).Below threshold29%(2 notices)
2 of 7 notices are Below threshold (29%).
Competition
Contracts published in the last 36 months (644) · 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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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 8 lots from 8 competitions run by 7 buyers, last 36 months. A buyer with many similar contests counts only up to a limit. 3 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 4) and 5 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).
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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.
22 of 569 notices that state a procedure, last 36 months. 75 more give no procedure and are left out.
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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.
82 of 446 awards where the winner declared its size.
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How much work here goes to companies based in the region.
Contract awards where the winner’s registered address is in this region, out of awards where the address is known.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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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.
1 of 644 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 · 648 awards to 354 suppliers · the five most frequent winners hold 17% of contract awards in the last 36 months
| Supplier | Procedures | Awards | Last 12 months | Buyers |
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| Jisc Services Ltd | 32 | 32 | 25 | 11 |
| Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership | 22 | 22 | 12 | 16 |
| THOMSON REUTERS (PROFESSIONAL) UK LIMITED | 18 | 19 | 9 | 15 |
| NLA Media Access Limited | 18 | 18 | 11 | 14 |
| Financial Times Ltd | 14 | 15 | 8 | 10 |
| THE COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY LTD | 12 | 13 | 9 | 8 |
| Jisc | 12 | 12 | 10 | 6 |
| Haymarket Media Group Ltd. | 11 | 11 | 5 | 10 |
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 · 10 of 680 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 7998. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Notices from 2021 to 23 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.