Quick answer — Disclosure and Barring ServiceLast refreshed 01 Jan 2024

At a glance

Disclosure and Barring Service has awarded £103.5m across 58 suppliers, with 6 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 26% · 1 open notice now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 12% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration26%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share12%
Pipeline · open now1
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Disclosure and Barring Service is a contracting authority, based in UK. Tracks 80 published notices and 77 awards on PublicSupply.

80
Notices published
77
Awards
58
Suppliers engaged
2015
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
£130k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Disclosure and Barring 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

1

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

Unspecified76 · £103.5m
services4 · £0

Instrument type

contract78 · £102.6m
call off2 · £895k
Source:Contracts Finder: 76Find a Tender: 4

Awarded contracts · 6 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Disclosure and Barring Service is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Oracle Market Driven Support (MDS) 2026 through BOS2 frameworkOracle Corporation UK Limitedactive
Technology Services for DBS Next Generation Estateplanned
Early Market Engagement - Matching/Data Linking, Rules Engines and Data Archive/Store48000000£0active
Atlassian - JIRA, ConfluenceVALIANTYS LTD72000000£35k01 Jan 2024active
Mulesoft softwareINSIGHT DIRECT (UK) LIMITED48517000£892k15 Aug 2023active
Thru softwareINSIGHT DIRECT (UK) LIMITED48517000£129k27 Sept 2023active
Legacy Technology Estate Replacement - Early Market Engagement48400000£0active
Capita -Purchase to Pay 360 Licence AMT09779v1CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LTD72212218£27k01 Apr 2022active
DBS Oracle Licences and Support Renewal - CRB LegacyORACLE CORPORATION UK LTD72212218£36k06 Apr 2022active
DBS R1/R0 Oracle Licences and Support FY22-24ORACLE CORPORATION UK LTD72212218£5.2m24 Mar 2022active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
SR
1 contract · 19 Jan
£26.5m
26% of total
2
BL
1 contract · 09 Dec
£15.0m
14% of total
3
HP
£14.0m
14% of total
4
VL
3 contracts · 01 Dec01 Apr
£10.1m
10% of total
5
DE
1 contract · 01 Sept
£7.2m
7% of total
6
PP
£6.9m
7% of total
7
OC
4 contracts · 24 Mar01 Jan
£5.3m
5% of total
8
BL
1 contract · SME · 20 Jul
£2.7m
3% of total
958
···
50 other suppliers
long tail · 8 SMEs
£15.7m
15% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
45 contracts
£59.4m
58%
Business, legal, advisory
11 contracts
£16.2m
16%
Software packages, IT
6 contracts
£15.1m
15%
Support transport services
1 contract
£6.9m
7%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
1 contract
£2.0m
2%
Real estate
1 contract
£1.2m
1%
Postal, telecoms
1 contract
£1.0m
1%
Health & social work
3 contracts
£930k
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
Business, legal, advisory
Software packages, IT
Support transport services
Petroleum, fuel, energy
Real estate
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.

Disclosure and Barring Service 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.

12%
SME supplier share
target 33%
9
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
58
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 12% 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
UK
Contact
Eileen Mather
Email
dbscommercial@dbs.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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