Spend profile

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

£40.4m
12 m spend
£27.5m
Prior 12 m
+47%
YoY change
£107k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
UK Hydrographic Office — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£5.8m£12m£17m£23mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

30

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

6

£25.3m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified430 · £833.2m
services103 · £431.2m
goods15 · £20.4m

Instrument type

contract547 · £1.3bn
call off1 · £11.5m
Source:Contracts Finder: 403Find a Tender: 145

Awarded contracts · 70 live

All contracts with a published award notice where UK Hydrographic Office 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
NS
2 contracts · 21 Mar19 Feb
£401.3m
2
IT
8 contracts · 30 May25 Mar
£126.5mest.
3
XU
2 contracts · SME · 13 Sept
£102.1mest.
4
FG
£100.0mest.
5
HE
1 contract
£100.0mest.
6
WO
1 contract
£100.0mest.
7
OI
£100.0mest.
8
AU
1 contract · SME · 24 Mar
£20.8m
9253
···
245 other suppliers
long tail · 87 SMEs
£208.8m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Architecture, engineering
27 contracts
£1.6bn
64%
Laboratory, scientific
12 contracts
£405.3m
16%
IT services, software
122 contracts
£227.0m
9%
Other
93 contracts
£120.9m
5%
Business, legal, advisory
88 contracts
£89.1m
4%
Support transport services
10 contracts
£39.6m
2%
R&D services
10 contracts
£21.0m
1%
Software packages, IT
38 contracts
£17.2m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Architecture, engineering
Laboratory, scientific
IT services, software
0
0
0
Other
5
8
11
2
12
Business, legal, advisory
1
Support transport services
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 · 0 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

UK Hydrographic Office has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

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.

29%
SME supplier share
target 33%
122
SME award rows
14
VCSE award rows
253
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 29% 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
UKK23
Contact
James Bishop
Email
procurement@ukho.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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