Quick answer — Financial Ombudsman ServiceLast refreshed 05 Sept 2025

At a glance

Financial Ombudsman Service has awarded £2.6bn across 182 suppliers, with 119 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 6% · 7 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 15% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration6%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share15%
Pipeline · open now7
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Financial Ombudsman Service is a contracting authority, based in UKI. Tracks 284 published notices and 301 awards on PublicSupply.

284
Notices published
301
Awards
182
Suppliers engaged
2019
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£252k
12 m spend
£10.7m
Prior 12 m
-98%
YoY change
£177k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Financial Ombudsman Service — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£1m£2m£3m£4mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

7

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

Unspecified266 · £120.8m
services17 · £119.8m
goods1 · £0

Instrument type

contract270 · £239.4m
call off14 · £1.3m
Source:Contracts Finder: 266Find a Tender: 18

Awarded contracts · 119 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Financial Ombudsman Service is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Microsoft ESA/SCE RenewalPhoenix Software Limitedactive
Workday AMS PartnerCloudrock Partners72000000£252k05 Sept 2025active
Digital Front DoorHippo Digital Limitedactive
Neutral Vendor Recruitment Services - Award NoticeMatrix SCM Limited79600000£2.5m11 Mar 2025active
Cloud Security/Firewalls (Palo Alto)Computacenter Plc72000000£707k14 Mar 2025active
E-Learning MaterialsLearning Pool Limited80000000£51k13 Mar 2025active
Candidate Assessment Services 2025 -2027Criteria Corp79000000£110k25 Mar 2025active
Planning Agency for Awareness and Understanding Activity - Award NoticeRoute Agency Ltd79342000£38k24 Feb 2025active
Advertorial and newsletter sponsorship - Award NoticeReach Publishing Services Limited79341400£32k14 Feb 2025active
ZeroFox IT Security Protection 2025-2027Softcat PLC48000000£103k24 Feb 2025active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
PC
£146.7mest.
6% of total
2
KA
£121.0mest.
5% of total
3
AU
1 contract · SME
£110.0mest.
4% of total
4
PC
£110.0mest.
4% of total
5
CL
1 contract · SME
£110.0mest.
4% of total
6
AP
3 contracts · SME
£86.2mest.
3% of total
7
PL
£66.0mest.
3% of total
8
OW
£55.0mest.
2% of total
9182
···
174 other suppliers
long tail · 29 SMEs
£1.5bn
56% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Financial, insurance
67 contracts
£6.8bn
96%
Business, legal, advisory
63 contracts
£242.4m
3%
IT services, software
77 contracts
£27.7m
0%
Software packages, IT
98 contracts
£20.5m
0%
Office equipment, IT
11 contracts
£5.7m
0%
Repair & maintenance
4 contracts
£2.3m
0%
Other
7 contracts
£1.8m
0%
Sewage, waste, environment
2 contracts
£1.5m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Financial, insurance
Business, legal, advisory
IT services, software
0
Software packages, IT
Office equipment, IT
Repair & maintenance
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.

Financial Ombudsman 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.

15%
SME supplier share
target 33%
41
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
182
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 15% 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
UKI
Contact
Troy Martin
Email
procurement.enquiries@financial-ombudsman.org.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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