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Quick answer — Invest Northern IrelandLast refreshed 11 Dec 2025

At a glance

Invest Northern Ireland has awarded £219.4m across 123 suppliers, with 324 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 34% · 31 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 89% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration34%
Modifications · 90 d1
SME spend share89%
Pipeline · open now31
Awards · 90 d0
Supplier?PipelineTop suppliersCategories boughtWatchdog?ModificationsFOIA & transparencySME share

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Invest Northern Ireland is a contracting authority, based in UKN06. Tracks 82 published notices and 102 awards on PublicSupply.

82
Notices published
102
Awards
123
Suppliers engaged
2025
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£57.0m
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
—
YoY change
£2.4m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Invest Northern Ireland — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£15m£30m£45m£60mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

6

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

31

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

services74 · £164.3m
Unspecified6 · £6.2m
goods2 · £3.4m

Instrument type

contract82 · £174.0m
Source:Find a Tender: 82

Awarded contracts · 324 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Invest Northern Ireland is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
ID 6512168 DfE – Invest NI – Food and Drink Consumer Insights Service – Data Toolkit - Preliminary Market Engagement—79310000£500kest.—planning
ID 6241865 DFE - Invest Northern Ireland - Customer Relationship Management - PRE-MARKET ENGAGAMENT—72000000——planning
ID 6241865 DFE - Invest Northern Ireland - Customer Relationship Management - PRE-MARKET ENGAGAMENT—72000000——planning
ID 6194064 – DfE Invest NI – Economics Services Framework Agreement—79400000£2.0mest.—active
DFE - Invest NI - Event Management Services—63121100£6.0mest.—active
ID 6274755 - DFE - Invest NI - Technical Advisory - PRE-MARKET ENGAGEMENT—73000000——planning
DfE - Invest NI - Provision of PR and Media Relations Services for Americas, GB and Europe—79416000£480kest.—active
DfE - Invest NI - Framework for Design and Construction of Exhibition StandsJNM EXHIBITION SERVICES LIMITED£3.5mest.—active
DfE - Invest NI - Framework for Design and Construction of Exhibition StandsOPEN EXHIBITIONS LIMITED£3.5mest.—active
DfE - Invest NI - Framework for Design and Construction of Exhibition StandsYNG MEDIA GROUP LIMITED£3.5mest.—active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
WT
WORLD TRAVEL CENTRE LTD
1 contract · SME
£75.0mest.
34% of total
—
2
AC
Arthur Cox
32 contracts · SME · 05 Dec
£26.7mest.
12% of total
New
3
GA
GENESIS ADVERTISING LTD
2 contracts · SME
£24.0mest.
11% of total
—
4
CF
CLEAVER FULTON RANKIN LIMITED
28 contracts · SME · 05 Dec
£21.5mest.
10% of total
New
5
CM
CARSON MCDOWELL LLP
13 contracts · SME · 05 Dec
£12.3mest.
6% of total
New
6
JE
JNM EXHIBITION SERVICES LIMITED
6 contracts · SME · 11 Dec
£11.6mest.
5% of total
New
7
CF
CLARENDON FUND MANAGERS LIMITED
1 contract · SME
£9.7mest.
4% of total
—
8
AT
AKU TRAINING LTD
3 contracts · SME
£4.4mest.
2% of total
—
9–123
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115 other suppliers
long tail · 96 SMEs
£67.1m
31% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
218 contracts
£338.3m
56%
Other
73 contracts
£119.4m
20%
Support transport services
2 contracts
£81.0m
13%
Education, training
12 contracts
£25.2m
4%
Furniture, cleaning
4 contracts
£13.6m
2%
Financial, insurance
2 contracts
£12.4m
2%
Health & social work
1 contract
£10.0m
2%
IT services, software
10 contracts
£5.8m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Business, legal, advisory
Other
2
55
Support transport services
Education, training
Furniture, cleaning
Financial, insurance
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

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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.

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Modifications · 1 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

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.

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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.

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SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

89%
SME supplier share
target 33%
281
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
123
Distinct suppliers

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKN06
Contact
SSDAdmin.CPDfinance-ni.gov.uk
Email
SSDAdmin.CPD@finance-ni.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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