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.
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.
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
1
Open (bidding)
1
Awarded (90d)
0
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 6 live
All contracts with a published award notice where Disclosure and Barring Service is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle Market Driven Support (MDS) 2026 through BOS2 framework | Oracle Corporation UK Limited | — | — | active | |
| Technology Services for DBS Next Generation Estate | — | — | — | planned | |
| Early Market Engagement - Matching/Data Linking, Rules Engines and Data Archive/Store | — | 48000000 | £0 | — | active |
| Atlassian - JIRA, Confluence | VALIANTYS LTD | 72000000 | £35k | 01 Jan 2024 | active |
| Mulesoft software | INSIGHT DIRECT (UK) LIMITED | 48517000 | £892k | 15 Aug 2023 | active |
| Thru software | INSIGHT DIRECT (UK) LIMITED | 48517000 | £129k | 27 Sept 2023 | active |
| Legacy Technology Estate Replacement - Early Market Engagement | — | 48400000 | £0 | — | active |
| Capita -Purchase to Pay 360 Licence AMT09779v1 | CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LTD | 72212218 | £27k | 01 Apr 2022 | active |
| DBS Oracle Licences and Support Renewal - CRB Legacy | ORACLE CORPORATION UK LTD | 72212218 | £36k | 06 Apr 2022 | active |
| DBS R1/R0 Oracle Licences and Support FY22-24 | ORACLE CORPORATION UK LTD | 72212218 | £5.2m | 24 Mar 2022 | 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 · 0 in 90 d
Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.
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.
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
- UK
- Contact
- Eileen Mather
- dbscommercial@dbs.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.
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