Spend profile

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

£3.0m
12 m spend
£250k
Prior 12 m
+1111%
YoY change
£1.8m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Northern Ireland Prison Service — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£591k£1.2m£1.8m£2.4mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

3

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

3

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£208k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

goods45 · £68.5m
services14 · £48.2m
works3 · £45.0m
Unspecified12 · £4.1m

Instrument type

contract74 · £165.9m
Source:Find a Tender: 74

Awarded contracts · 7 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Northern Ireland Prison Service 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
WF
£14.2mest.
2
IW
£13.7mest.
3
WS
10 contracts · 04 Jul19 May
£6.4mest.
4
WF
£242kest.
5
AT
£0
6
SL
£0

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
3 contracts
£69.0m
34%
Furniture, cleaning
18 contracts
£40.2m
20%
Food, beverages, tobacco
12 contracts
£37.6m
18%
Clothing, footwear
6 contracts
£15.6m
8%
Security, emergency equipment
10 contracts
£15.3m
7%
Health & social work
2 contracts
£10.2m
5%
Other
13 contracts
£9.2m
5%
Postal, telecoms
1 contract
£6.5m
3%

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.

55%
SME supplier share
target 33%
18
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
6
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
UKN0E
Contact
justice.cpdfinance-ni.gov.uk
Email
Justice.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.

Resources

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