Name: DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT procurement activity
Creator: PublicSupply
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Quick answer — DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENTLast refreshed 14 Jan 2021

At a glance

DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT has awarded £3.4m across 20 suppliers, with 2 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 40% · 0 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 27% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals

Top-supplier concentration40%

Modifications · 90 d0

SME spend share27%

Pipeline · open now0

Awards · 90 d0

Supplier?Pipeline Top suppliers Categories boughtWatchdog?Modifications FOIA & transparency SME share

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT is a contracting authority, based in United Kingdom. Tracks 32 published notices and 32 awards on PublicSupply.

32

Notices published

32

Awards

20

Suppliers engaged

2018

First award on file

Spend profile

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

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12 m spend

£0

Prior 12 m

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YoY change

£60k

Median award

Awards (£m)12m moving avg

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

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Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

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Awarded (90d)

0

£0

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Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified32 · £3.4m

Instrument type

contract22 · £2.8m

call off10 · £618k

Source:Contracts Finder: 32

Awarded contracts · 2 live

All contracts with a published award notice where DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT is the contracting authority.

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Title	Supplier	CPV	Value	Awarded	Status
Voluntary Transparency Notice for Supply of International Autosampler to INM	MARKES INTERNATIONAL LIMITED	38540000	£21k	14 Jan 2021	active
Recruitment Consultancy Services to Generate Royal Navy Candidates for Logistics Roles	SOPRA STERIA LIMITED	79340000	£118k	27 Jun 2019	active
Provision of an Independent Specialist Coherency Review of the complete Military Aviation Authority Regulatory Publications(Info only- FATS Agreement)	—	71350000	£0	—	active
Purchase of an Extended Focus Microscope with Service and Support for 5 years	Leica Microsystems (UK) Limited	38634000	£47k	19 Feb 2019	active
Merlin and Apache AH Mk1 Engine Support - This is a Transparency Notice for release 2 of the Invitation to Tender to suppliers who were successful at the PQQ stage	—	34731100	£0	—	active
For Transparency Purposes only, TSP Services for DOTC(A) RIBA stages 5-6	Mott MacDonald	71311300	£338k	10 Jan 2019	active
Voluntary Transparency Notice for procurement of Urban Assault Equipment for Royal Marine (RM) Loan Pool	Brigantes Consulting Limited	35000000	£80k	08 Jan 2019	active
The provision of Corrosion Sensors on Rotary Wing Aircraft Project	BAE SYSTEMS (OPERATIONS) LIMITED	35125100	£61k	16 Dec 2018	active
Purchase of Carbon Sulphur Determinater and Additional Service, Calibration and Support for 5 Years	—	50324200	£0	—	active
Purchase of a Laser Induced Breakdown Spectrometer (LIBS) plus Additional Service and Support for Four Years	—	38433000	£0	—	active

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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1

UE

ULTRA ELECTRONICS LIMITED

1 contract · 10 Oct

£1.4m

40% of total

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2

RA

RUAG AMMOTEC UK LTD

1 contract · 29 Oct

£723k

21% of total

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3

MM

Mott MacDonald

1 contract · 10 Jan

£338k

10% of total

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4

QL

QINETIQ LIMITED

1 contract · 23 Nov

£293k

9% of total

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5

CB

CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED

2 contracts · 30 Jun – 28 Sept

£183k

5% of total

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6

SS

SOPRA STERIA LIMITED

1 contract · 27 Jun

£118k

3% of total

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7

BC

Brigantes Consulting Limited

1 contract · SME · 08 Jan

£80k

2% of total

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8

BS

BAE SYSTEMS (OPERATIONS) LIMITED

1 contract · 16 Dec

£61k

2% of total

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12 other suppliers

long tail · 4 SMEs

£258k

8% of total

various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Repair & maintenance

2 contracts

£1.4m

41%

Security, emergency equipment

3 contracts

£863k

26%

Architecture, engineering

3 contracts

£338k

10%

Chemicals

1 contract

£293k

9%

Education, training

2 contracts

£183k

6%

Business, legal, advisory

2 contracts

£118k

4%

IT services, software

3 contracts

£86k

3%

Laboratory, scientific

3 contracts

£68k

2%

Activity heatmap

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

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Repair & maintenance

Security, emergency equipment

Architecture, engineering

Chemicals

Education, training

Business, legal, advisory

LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

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

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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.

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Modifications · 0 in 90 d

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

Total mods

0

Above tolerance

0

Total value

£0

Novations

0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

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.

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SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

27%

SME supplier share
target 33%

6

SME award rows

0

VCSE award rows

20

Distinct suppliers

⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 27% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

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: United Kingdom

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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Buyer	Type	12 m spend	Top-supplier %	SME %	Mods · 90 d
DEFENCE RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT	self	£24.8bn	14%	24%	12 (3)
Peer A	—	£8.2bn	11%	34%	3 (0)
Peer B	—	£3.2bn	18%	31%	4 (0)
Peer C	—	£1.84bn	9%	42%	0