Quick answer — Veterinary Medicine DirectorateLast refreshed 07 Mar 2025

At a glance

Veterinary Medicine Directorate has awarded £610k across 3 suppliers, with 5 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 66% · 1 open notice now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 0% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration66%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share0%
Pipeline · open now1
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Veterinary Medicine Directorate is a contracting authority, based in United Kingdom. Tracks 10 published notices and 6 awards on PublicSupply.

10
Notices published
6
Awards
3
Suppliers engaged
2021
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£87k
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£103k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Veterinary Medicine Directorate — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

2

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified7 · £610k
services3 · £72k

Instrument type

contract9 · £682k
call off1 · £0
Source:Contracts Finder: 6Find a Tender: 4

Awarded contracts · 5 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Veterinary Medicine Directorate is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
An investigation into the degradation products obtained from the tertiary recyclcomplete
An investigation into the degradation products obtained from the tertiary recycl73200000£72kest.active
Cyber Security Services 3NCC Group Security Services Ltd72222200£87k07 Mar 2025active
Veterinary Pharmaceutical Packaging Recycling73200000planning
Veterinary Pharmaceutical Packaging Recycling73200000planning
Equine anthelmintic resistance: Anthelmintic efficacy in ascarids (Parascaris spp.) populations in foals and youngstock and existing management strategies on UK stud farms.73300000£0active
Develop and pilot approaches to surveillance for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in companion animals and equines73300000£0active
Equine AnthelminticsHarper Adams University73111000£118k18 Sept 2023active
Building a self-assessment and benchmarking tool for the evaluation of veterinary medicines regulatory agencies (NRAs)48000000£0active
Supply of PVWorks softwareAssured Information Systems Limited72000000£405k03 Aug 2021active

Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
AI
£405k
66% of total
2
HA
1 contract · 18 Sept
£118k
19% of total
3
NG
£87k
14% of total
▼ 100%

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
2 contracts
£492k
72%
R&D services
6 contracts
£190k
28%

Activity heatmap

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

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IT services, software
R&D 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.

Veterinary Medicine Directorate 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.

0%
SME supplier share
target 33%
0
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
3
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 0% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
United Kingdom

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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