Quick answer — Department for Business, Energy & Industrial StrategyLast refreshed 23 Nov 2023

At a glance

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has awarded £467.8m across 375 suppliers, with 146 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 3% · 39 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 38% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration3%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share38%
Pipeline · open now39
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy is a contracting authority, based in UK. Tracks 726 published notices and 634 awards on PublicSupply.

726
Notices published
634
Awards
375
Suppliers engaged
2016
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£217k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy — 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

54

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

39

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

services143 · £3.7bn
Unspecified575 · £455.8m
goods8 · £71.5m

Instrument type

contract682 · £4.2bn
call off44 · £4.8m
Source:Contracts Finder: 575Find a Tender: 151

Awarded contracts · 146 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Futures FrameworkArke Ltd79300000£3.0mest.active
Futures FrameworkRand Europe79300000£3.0mest.active
Futures FrameworkMetro Dynamics Limited79300000£3.0mest.active
Futures FrameworkLondon Economics Limited79300000£3.0mest.active
Futures FrameworkDecision Analysis Services Ltd79300000£3.0mest.active
Futures FrameworkJigsaw Foresight Ltd79300000£3.0mest.active
Futures FrameworkSami Consulting79300000£3.0mest.active
Futures FrameworkSchool of International Futures79300000£3.0mest.active
Futures FrameworkPerform Green79300000£3.0mest.active
Futures FrameworkShared Intelligence79300000£3.0mest.active
Showing 110 of 805

Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
NN
6 contracts · 01 Nov25 Jul
£13.7m
3% of total
2
DL
7 contracts · 04 Oct18 May
£12.0m
3% of total
3
VL
4 contracts · SME · 08 Feb
£10.6m
2% of total
4
AL
2 contracts · 09 Jul28 Apr
£10.5m
2% of total
5
MM
4 contracts · 12 Jul12 Jan
£9.5mest.
2% of total
6
DG
2 contracts · 01 Nov
£9.5m
2% of total
7
OA
7 contracts · 26 Oct10 May
£9.3mest.
2% of total
8
TL
2 contracts · SME · 28 Nov19 Jan
£8.3m
2% of total
9375
···
367 other suppliers
long tail · 165 SMEs
£256.3m
55% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Government administration
28 contracts
£3.0bn
71%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
44 contracts
£605.7m
14%
Business, legal, advisory
174 contracts
£181.3m
4%
R&D services
222 contracts
£181.3m
4%
Architecture, engineering
73 contracts
£103.6m
2%
IT services, software
79 contracts
£79.8m
2%
Other
62 contracts
£38.7m
1%
Security, emergency equipment
6 contracts
£20.7m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Government administration
Petroleum, fuel, energy
Business, legal, advisory
R&D services
Architecture, engineering
IT services, software
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 · 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.

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy 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.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

38%
SME supplier share
target 33%
209
SME award rows
2
VCSE award rows
375
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
UK
Companies House
OC372614
Contact
Katya Addiego
Email
professionalservices@uksbs.co.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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