Spend profile

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

£7.6m
12 m spend
£53k
Prior 12 m
+14147%
YoY change
£300k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
National Oceanography Centre — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£770k£1.5m£2.3m£3.1mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

5

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

6

£523k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified148 · £8.4m
services8 · £7.2m
goods13 · £6.3m

Instrument type

contract169 · £21.9m
Source:Find a Tender: 143Contracts Finder: 26

Awarded contracts · 23 live

All contracts with a published award notice where National Oceanography Centre 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
FL
2 contracts · 09 Dec
£5.0mest.
2
TI
£1.8m
3
GS
2 contracts · SME · 09 Oct
£810kest.
4
SP
5 contracts · 15 Oct27 Mar
£798k
5
AL
£700k
6
BU
1 contract · 25 Feb
£589k
7
LP
1 contract · SME · 18 Jul
£500k
8
MC
3 contracts · SME · 03 Jul
£454k
983
···
75 other suppliers
long tail · 48 SMEs
£673k

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
114 contracts
£9.0m
43%
Repair & maintenance
2 contracts
£4.5m
22%
Electrical machinery
1 contract
£4.1m
20%
Software packages, IT
8 contracts
£1.0m
5%
Financial, insurance
1 contract
£700k
3%
Medical, pharmaceutical
1 contract
£589k
3%
Business, legal, advisory
1 contract
£500k
2%
Architecture, engineering
3 contracts
£454k
2%

Activity heatmap

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

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Other
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Repair & maintenance
Electrical machinery
Software packages, IT
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Financial, insurance
1
Medical, pharmaceutical
1
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 · 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.

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.

60%
SME supplier share
target 33%
78
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
83
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
UKJ32
Companies House
11444362
Contact
George-Oliver Matthews
Email
noc_tenders@noc.ac.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.

Resources

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