At a glance
Department for Business & Trade has awarded £462.7m across 339 suppliers, with 386 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 27% · 25 open notices now · 55 awards in last 90 d (£339.2m) · SME share 40% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
Department for Business & Trade is a contracting authority, based in UKI32. Tracks 543 published notices and 466 awards on PublicSupply.
Spend profile
Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.
Contract pipeline
Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.
Planned
46
Open (bidding)
25
Awarded (90d)
55
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 386 live
All contracts with a published award notice where Department for Business & Trade is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leading Through Disruption DG Programme - Contract | Forward Institute | — | — | active | |
| CAPTURE Document Disclosure | Post Office Ltd | — | — | active | |
| Legal Services to support Agratas Gigafactory Project | DLA Piper UK LLP | 79100000 | £1.7m | 27 Feb 2026 | active |
| InnoTrans 2026 | Railway Industry Association | — | — | active | |
| Pitchbook Renewal | Pitchbook Data Limited | — | — | active | |
| Vehicle Hire Solutions | Enterprise Rent-A-Car UK Limited | 50110000 | £340k | 05 May 2026 | active |
| UK Participation at Expo 2030 Riyadh - Preliminary Market Engagement/Early Engagement Questionnaire | — | 45212300 | — | — | planning |
| Level 6 Project Manager Apprenticeship | QA Ltd | 80400000 | £18k | 11 May 2026 | active |
| The Provision of Data for Global Talent Taskforce | Zeki Research Limited | — | — | active | |
| Assessors for King's Awards 2026-2029 | IXC UK Ltd | £664k | 11 May 2026 | active |
Top suppliers · by total award value
Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.
Category spend breakdown
By CPV division · lifetime awards
Activity heatmap
Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.
Commercial & procurement leadership
Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.
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.
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.
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.
target 33%
Peer benchmark
vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.
Compare against the peer group
£149 / seat / month. Configurable peer groups, rolling trendlines, and CSV / PDF exports for board packs.
News mentions
Major UK press & trade publications.
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Statutory & accountability
Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.
Identifiers & contact
- Type
- Contracting authority
- Region
- UKI32
- commercialddat@businessandtrade.gov.uk
Board & accountable officers
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.
Resources
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