At a glance
National Audit Office has awarded £1.0bn across 414 suppliers, with 375 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 18% · 30 open notices now · 9 awards in last 90 d (£568k) · SME share 39% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
National Audit Office is a contracting authority, based in UKI32. Tracks 1000 published notices and 1028 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
5
Open (bidding)
30
Awarded (90d)
9
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 375 live
All contracts with a published award notice where National Audit Office is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Success at School Apprentice Campaign 2026/2027 | Success at School Ltd | 79600000 | £19k | 20 May 2026 | active |
| Hosting Virtual Assessment Centres | TopScore Technologies Limited | 79600000 | £126k | 01 Aug 2022 | active |
| Candidate Screening and Interviewing | Graduate Recruitment Bureau | 79600000 | £193k | 01 Aug 2022 | active |
| Complexity Thinking Training | Cognitive Edge Ltd | 80510000 | £15k | 20 Apr 2026 | active |
| CPT_26_16 Ideagen Pentana | IDEAGEN SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 72000000 | £101k | 13 Mar 2026 | active |
| Laptop Chargeable Repairs - 2026/28 | HP INC UK LIMITED | 50312000 | £15k | 13 Mar 2026 | active |
| CPT_26_14 - SmartExporter 2026-27 | CaseWare UK Ltd | 48000000 | £18k | 13 Mar 2026 | active |
| CPT_26_06 Network Hardware Support | SPECIALIST COMPUTER CENTRES PLC | 72222300 | £200k | 02 Apr 2026 | active |
| Vodafone backup Sims | VODAFONE LIMITED | 72222300 | £25k | 26 Mar 2026 | active |
| CPT_26_03 IT Service management (ITSM) | — | 48000000 | £1.5mest. | — | 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 · 1 in 90 d
Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.
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.
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
- UKI32
- Contact
- Ima Orosei
- NAO.Procurement@nao.org.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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