Spend profile

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

£15.8m
12 m spend
£8.2m
Prior 12 m
+94%
YoY change
£48k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
The National Archives — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£2.2m£4.5m£6.7m£9.0mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

4

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

9

£1.8m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
49 recorded contracts worth £8.2m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified743 · £156.6m
services54 · £125.1m
goods7 · £799k

Instrument type

contract599 · £239.9m
call off205 · £42.6m
Source:Contracts Finder: 662Find a Tender: 142

Awarded contracts · 91 live

All contracts with a published award notice where The National Archives 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
TS
10 contracts · SME · 18 Feb28 Jul
£104.2mest.
2
CM
£15.3m
3
FL
2 contracts · SME · 16 Oct24 Jan
£10.7m
4
ML
3 contracts · SME · 14 Nov22 Sept
£6.6mest.
5
TD
10 contracts · SME · 22 Dec13 Mar
£5.3m
6
AA
2 contracts · SME · 22 Mar
£4.0mest.
7
LP
1 contract · 07 Jun
£3.9m
8
AM
4 contracts · 09 Aug29 Oct
£3.2mest.
9404
···
396 other suppliers
long tail · 205 SMEs
£63.0m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
212 contracts
£92.7m
43%
Other
85 contracts
£60.5m
28%
Software packages, IT
119 contracts
£23.3m
11%
Recreational, cultural, sport
22 contracts
£14.3m
7%
Business, legal, advisory
80 contracts
£10.2m
5%
Office equipment, IT
107 contracts
£6.1m
3%
Architecture, engineering
10 contracts
£3.9m
2%
R&D services
35 contracts
£3.9m
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
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Other
0
3
Software packages, IT
1
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
Recreational, cultural, sport
Business, legal, advisory
0
0
0
0
0
5
Office equipment, IT
1
0
0
0
0
0
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 · 2 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 2 notices 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.

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.

48%
SME supplier share
target 33%
351
SME award rows
6
VCSE award rows
404
Distinct suppliers
24%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
2%
Local suppliers (TW postcodes)
2 of 117 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£34k of £169.8m
29%
Postcode coverage
117 of 404 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the TW postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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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
UKI75
Email
procurement@nationalarchives.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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