Quick answer — ADVISORY, CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION SERVICELast refreshed 17 Dec 2025

At a glance

ADVISORY, CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION SERVICE has awarded £13.6m across 43 suppliers, with 10 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 20% · 1 open notice now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 69% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration20%
Modifications · 90 d1
SME spend share69%
Pipeline · open now1
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

ADVISORY, CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION SERVICE is a contracting authority, based in UKI41. Tracks 54 published notices and 49 awards on PublicSupply.

54
Notices published
49
Awards
43
Suppliers engaged
2017
First award on file

Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£1.5m
12 m spend
£1.4m
Prior 12 m
+7%
YoY change
£176k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
ADVISORY, CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION SERVICE — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

3

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

Unspecified49 · £13.6m
services3 · £364k
goods2 · £0

Instrument type

contract53 · £13.8m
call off1 · £180k
Source:Contracts Finder: 49Find a Tender: 5

Awarded contracts · 10 live

All contracts with a published award notice where ADVISORY, CONCILIATION AND ARBITRATION SERVICE is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
DDaT26203 - Acas27467 - Procurement of a Power Platform Service Provider48000000planning
DDaT26203 - Acas27467 - Procurement of a Power Platform Service Provider48000000planning
Software TesterLucid Support Services Limited72000000£69k17 Dec 2025active
Moodle Consultancy, Maintenance and Development ServicesAcas12 Ltd72600000£121k27 Nov 2025active
Secondary Backup SolutionSoftcat PLC72000000£505k21 Nov 2025active
Finance & Accounting SystemIRIS Software Group48000000£179k06 Nov 2025active
Lenovo ThinkPad T14s 2-in-1 G1 requirementCENTERPRISE INTERNATIONAL LTD30213100£312k17 Oct 2025active
MS Teams TelephonyGAMMA NETWORK SOLUTIONS LIMITED32551400£145k22 Jul 2025active
iTrent HR & PayrollMHR International UK Ltd48000000£526k31 Mar 2025active
Microsoft Surface Pro Copilot+ PCXMA COMPUTER PRODUCTS LTD30213100£71k03 Sept 2025active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
PS
1 contract · 13 Dec
£2.8m
20% of total
2
WL
1 contract · SME · 16 Jun
£1.5m
11% of total
3
MI
2 contracts · 23 Aug31 Mar
£761k
6% of total
▼ 100%
4
OS
1 contract · SME · 25 Jul
£700k
5% of total
5
SC
3 contracts · 01 Feb28 Jun
£652k
5% of total
6
SP
1 contract · 21 Nov
£505k
4% of total
New
7
AL
1 contract · SME · 07 Jul
£501k
4% of total
8
II
1 contract · SME · 16 Nov
£498k
4% of total
943
···
35 other suppliers
long tail · 25 SMEs
£5.7m
42% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
21 contracts
£8.5m
61%
Software packages, IT
10 contracts
£2.2m
16%
Office equipment, IT
10 contracts
£1.9m
13%
Business, legal, advisory
7 contracts
£384k
3%
Other
2 contracts
£364k
3%
Radio, TV, communications
2 contracts
£277k
2%
Education, training
1 contract
£230k
2%
R&D services
1 contract
£180k
1%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
IT services, software
1
0
Software packages, IT
0
Office equipment, IT
0
0
Business, legal, advisory
Other
Radio, TV, communications
0
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 1 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 1 notice tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

69%
SME supplier share
target 33%
34
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
43
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKI41
Email
procurement@acas.org.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

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