Spend profile

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

£23.9m
12 m spend
£9.8m
Prior 12 m
+145%
YoY change
£95k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Information Commissioner's Office — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£2.7m£5.4m£8.1m£11mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

6

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

4

£989k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

Unspecified251 · £86.1m
services21 · £2.1m
goods1 · £1.6m
works2 · £0

Instrument type

contract270 · £88.7m
call off5 · £1.1m
Source:Contracts Finder: 244Find a Tender: 31

Awarded contracts · 54 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Information Commissioner's Office is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
PS
3 contracts · 04 Jul09 Feb
£10.8m
2
ND
1 contract · SME · 21 Aug
£9.8m
3
KS
5 contracts · 15 Jun19 Dec
£6.3m
4
LF
1 contract · 04 Apr
£6.0m
5
CD
3 contracts · 24 Oct06 Jan
£5.9m
6
WL
2 contracts · 14 Jan21 Jan
£5.0m
7
CF
£4.9m
8
TT
1 contract · SME · 26 Jun
£3.3m
9172
···
164 other suppliers
long tail · 88 SMEs
£36.1m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
44 contracts
£33.4m
38%
Software packages, IT
31 contracts
£20.1m
23%
Business, legal, advisory
81 contracts
£15.2m
17%
Postal, telecoms
3 contracts
£6.3m
7%
Office equipment, IT
6 contracts
£4.3m
5%
Other
17 contracts
£3.5m
4%
R&D services
21 contracts
£2.6m
3%
Education, training
20 contracts
£2.0m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
IT services, software
10
0
0
0
1
Software packages, IT
0
0
0
3
4
0
0
Business, legal, advisory
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
Postal, telecoms
Office equipment, IT
2
0
0
Other
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.

Information Commissioner's Office 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.

49%
SME supplier share
target 33%
118
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
172
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKD62
Contact
Emma Hinchley
Email
procurement@ico.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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