Spend profile

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

£703.4m
12 m spend
£496.0m
Prior 12 m
+42%
YoY change
£300k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Post Office Limited — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£113m£226m£338m£451mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

52

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

22

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

8

£518.0m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services268 · £5.1bn
Unspecified570 · £2.3bn
goods21 · £74.8m

Instrument type

contract834 · £7.2bn
call off25 · £329.9m
Source:Contracts Finder: 470Find a Tender: 389

Awarded contracts · 147 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Post Office Limited 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
AL
19 contracts · 22 Jun21 May
£820.5mest.
2
MH
£205.0m
3
OT
2 contracts · 29 Apr
£141.6mest.
4
OC
1 contract · SME · 21 May
£141.0m
5
GL
2 contracts · 25 Sept04 Nov
£127.9m
6
IL
2 contracts · 18 May
£106.8mest.
7
SC
7 contracts · 02 Mar01 Dec
£90.0mest.
8
CE
2 contracts · 21 Jan
£80.8m
9334
···
326 other suppliers
long tail · 88 SMEs
£1.5bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
239 contracts
£1.4bn
30%
Other
130 contracts
£1.4bn
28%
IT services, software
93 contracts
£989.4m
20%
Office equipment, IT
28 contracts
£381.1m
8%
Financial, insurance
27 contracts
£219.0m
5%
Software packages, IT
16 contracts
£188.8m
4%
Radio, TV, communications
3 contracts
£180.3m
4%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
13 contracts
£110.0m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Business, legal, advisory
1
0
0
Other
1
11
45
1
108
410
IT services, software
2
0
Office equipment, IT
4
Financial, insurance
70
3
Software packages, IT
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 · 18 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 18 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.

20%
SME supplier share
target 33%
124
SME award rows
3
VCSE award rows
334
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 20% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

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
UKI31
Companies House
02154540
Contact
Ufuoma Bashorun
Email
postmaster.onboarding@postoffice.co.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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