At a glance · for buyers and watchdogs
Desco (Design & Consultancy) Ltd has won £7.3m across 14 public-sector buyers, with 4 live contracts. No active Companies House risk flags.
Why: top buyer NEUPC Ltd at 42% · 0 active risk flags · 0 modifications.
ESG & policies vault · 0/5
Key governance & sustainability policies. Published documents link out; missing ones are greyed.
Capabilities
What this supplier does, where they sit, who they sell to.
Extracted automatically from desco.uk.com on Jul 2026. Not independently verified — treat as the supplier’s own marketing claims.
Case studies · 1
Delivery stories from the supplier’s website. Clients are not yet cross-checked against award records.
Extracted automatically from desco.uk.com on Jul 2026. Not independently verified — treat as the supplier’s own marketing claims.
Buyer references
Named public-sector contacts who have agreed to act as a reference.
No buyer references yet
Public-sector buyers can confirm they'll act as a reference for this supplier. Confirmed references — with the contract they relate to — show here.
Accreditations & memberships
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No accreditations recorded
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KPI performance
Delivery, budget and satisfaction scores reported quarterly by buyers.
No verified KPI scores yet
Once buyers report contract KPIs — delivery on time, on budget, satisfaction, adoption and accessibility — a weighted grade and breakdown appear here.
Contracts · 4 live · 13 historic
Pulled from Contracts Finder & Find a Tender. Most recent first.
| Title | Buyer | CPV | Awarded | Value | Term | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tunbridge Wells Borough Council | — | 05 Nov 2025 | — | 12 mo | pending | |
| NEUPC Ltd | 71315210 | 01 May 2025 | £3.0m | 4 yrs | Live | |
| L&Q Housing Trust | 71530000 | 10 Mar 2025 | £2.2m | 4 yrs | Live | |
| NEWCASTLE COLLEGE GROUP | 71321000 | 01 Apr 2024 | £40k | 4 mo | Closed | |
| NEWCASTLE COLLEGE GROUP | 71321000 | 01 Apr 2024 | £40k | 4 mo | Closed | |
| Darlington Borough Council | 45000000 | 18 Jan 2022 | £24k | 2 yrs | Closed | |
| Durham County Council | 79000000 | 11 Jan 2022 | £1.2m | 4 yrs | Closed | |
| Sunderland City Council | 71333000 | 22 Apr 2021 | £72k | 2 yrs | Closed | |
| L&Q Construction | 71334000 | 13 Jan 2020 | £28k | 4 yrs | Closed | |
| South Tyneside Council | 71320000 | 01 Apr 2019 | £265k | 1.8 yrs | Closed |
Top buyers · 14 buyers · top 3 = 88%
Share of awarded value. Concentration fires above 40% for any single buyer.
Geography
Distribution of awarded value by buyer region.
Peers
Suppliers with overlapping CPVs & buyers (last 24m). Desco (Design & Consultancy) Ltd highlighted.
| Supplier | SME? | Awarded · 24m | Contracts |
|---|---|---|---|
| No | £67.8m | 1 | |
| No | £28.1m | 2 | |
| No | £18.8m | 2 | |
| No | £14.4m | 4 | |
| No | £13.7m | 2 | |
D( Desco (Design & Consultancy) Ltd | Yes | — | — |
Red flags · 0 active
Automated scan of Companies House status, charges and insolvency records.
Compliance scorecard
Derived from Companies House filings — not a full supplier-assurance check.
Modifications
Variations to awarded contracts logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74.
No modifications recorded
No published contract variations for this supplier. Modification notices appear here as they are issued under the Procurement Act 2023.
News mentions
UK trade press & nationals, matched to this supplier.
No news mentions found
We haven't matched any recent UK press coverage to this supplier. Mentions appear here automatically as they're published.
Companies House
Live sync — registered details, directors, PSC and SIC codes.
Registered details
- Company no.
- 03613462
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private limited
- Incorporated
- 11 Aug 1998
- Reg. office
- Azure House 2 Azure Court, Doxford International Business Park, Sunderland, SR3 3BE
- SIC codes
- 71122
- Last accounts
- 31 Dec 2025
- Next accounts due
- 30 Sept 2027
Directors & PSC
- DOUGAN-GAFTEA, Hannah Elizabeth — secretaryAppointed 07 Apr 2025
- STARLING, Ross — directorAppointed 25 Nov 2024
- ROBERTS, Linda Susan — directorAppointed 01 Jan 2021
- CROWE, Neil David — directorAppointed 01 Apr 2013
- HALL, Kevin — directorAppointed 01 Jan 2007
- Desco (2011) Ltd — person with significant controlownership of shares 75 to 100 percent · voting rights 75 to 100 percent
Financial
Filed accounts from Companies House.
No financial filings on record
Turnover, profit and headcount appear here once audited or micro-entity accounts are filed at Companies House.
Org tree
Group structure and ownership.
Independent. No parent company or subsidiaries recorded at Companies House for this entity.
Social value
Commitments mapped to the Government Social Value Model themes.
No social-value commitments yet
Jobs, skills, environmental, inequality and community commitments appear here once a claimed supplier attributes them to awarded contracts, or once we detect them on the supplier’s website.