Spend profile

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

£2.7m
12 m spend
£40.8m
Prior 12 m
-93%
YoY change
£92k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£2.0m£3.9m£5.9m£7.9mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

10

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£49k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
38 recorded contracts worth £22.8m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified959 · £486.0m
services28 · £9.1m
goods13 · £3.2m

Instrument type

contract990 · £497.3m
call off10 · £949k
Source:Contracts Finder: 910Find a Tender: 90

Awarded contracts · 70 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
CU
1 contract · 03 Jun
£131.8m
2
SS
1 contract · 03 Jun
£90.3m
3
XL
1 contract · SME · 24 Jul
£19.9m
4
FC
20 contracts · SME · 09 Sept01 Sept
£17.7m
5
BS
25 contracts · 13 Oct18 Aug
£17.4m
6
BS
10 contracts · 21 Oct05 Sept
£15.1m
7
QL
26 contracts · 17 Sept20 Jul
£13.2m
8
MS
6 contracts · 19 Feb27 Mar
£11.2m
9541
···
533 other suppliers
long tail · 278 SMEs
£171.1m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
52 contracts
£235.3m
51%
R&D services
461 contracts
£182.0m
39%
Electrical machinery
15 contracts
£10.5m
2%
Laboratory, scientific
94 contracts
£9.5m
2%
Construction works
13 contracts
£9.3m
2%
Government administration
3 contracts
£8.6m
2%
Medical, pharmaceutical
11 contracts
£5.8m
1%
Security, emergency equipment
31 contracts
£4.0m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
IT services, software
R&D services
0
0
Electrical machinery
Laboratory, scientific
1
Construction works
Government administration
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.

42%
SME supplier share
target 33%
403
SME award rows
2
VCSE award rows
541
Distinct suppliers
19%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
1%
Local suppliers (SP postcodes)
2 of 135 with known office
1%
Value to local suppliers
£5.0m of £367.3m
25%
Postcode coverage
135 of 541 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the SP postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKK15
Contact
Lynda Kerens
Email
TrainingandHR@dstl.gov.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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