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Public sector contracts from Arts Council England
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- 47
- Awards, last 12 months
- 241
- Awards since 2021
- 188
- Distinct suppliers
- £40k
- Median contract value
- 29
- Ending in 18 months
Hatched quarters fall only partly inside the next 18 months. Busiest whole quarter: Q2 2027.
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- 9 contracts end in the next 6 months
- Has awarded contracts every year since 2021
- Took on 32 new suppliers in the last 12 months
47 contract awards published in the last 12 months, down from 98 the year before, and 241 since 2021 from 188 suppliers.
Arts Council England at a glance
The median published contract value is £40k (239 contracts state a value).
Its most active procurement category is business and professional services.
NG-IT Limited appears most frequently, holding 7 awards.
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Awards per quarter
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29 contracts expiring in the next 18 months
Contract end dates are published in the original award notices. A contract approaching its end date is a re-tender with a date on it, and the point at which a buyer is most open to a conversation.
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Latest contract awards
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Latest activity
What Arts Council England has published recently
Open tenders, and the awards from the last 12 months that the table above does not list, newest first.An award is dated by its award date, or by its publication date where the award date is missing or later.
23 Oct 2026 (2 weeks ago)
Tender published
ACE 1122 ITQ - 'Artsmark 25 Young People Commissioners' Project Partner
Closes 16 Nov 2026
18 Mar 2026 (8 months ago)
16 Mar 2026 (8 months ago)
13 Mar 2026 (8 months ago)
Contract award
GB-Manchester: ACE 703 CCS - Cognos Health Checks and Optimisation
Awarded to Sempre Analytics Limited
12 Mar 2026 (8 months ago)
27 Feb 2026 (8 months ago)
18 Feb 2026 (9 months ago)
Contract award
ACE 1073 DAC - Let’s Create Peer Learning community networking hub
Awarded to Hivebrite UK Ltd
18 Feb 2026 (9 months ago)
Contract award
ACE 1074 DAC - Action Learning Sets for CPP Directors
Awarded to Action Learning Associates
17 Feb 2026 (9 months ago)
13 Feb 2026 (9 months ago)
13 Feb 2026 (9 months ago)
Contract award
GB-Manchester: ACE 706 CCS - Digital Strategy final business case
Awarded to Michael Page Consulting
10 Feb 2026 (9 months ago)
Contract award
GB-Manchester: ACE 701 CCS Venue and Conferencing booking
Awarded to Calder Conferences
6 Feb 2026 (9 months ago)
2 Feb 2026 (9 months ago)
Contract award
GB-Manchester: ACE 1067 ITQ - Surveyor for Victory House
Awarded to Stiles Harold Williams Partnership LLP
6 Jan 2026 (10 months ago)
6 Jan 2026 (10 months ago)
Contract award
Research into Teachers Professional Development in Art
Awarded to Teacher Development Trust
24 Nov 2025 (11 months ago)
11 Nov 2025 (1 year ago)
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Most frequent suppliers
- NG-IT Limited7 awards
- Espria Limited6 awards
- Acanthurus Limited5 awards
- Design Security Limited5 awards
- Ian Johnson Associates Limited5 awards
- Nigel Cook Consulting Limited5 awards
- Trident Manor Limited5 awards
- TPX Impact LTD5 awards
- The Audience AgencySME4 awards
- Mphasis UK Limited3 awards
How much goes to small firms and the voluntary sector
104 of 183 awards
2 of 54 awards
Awards since November 2023 where Arts Council England recorded on the notice whether the winner was an SME or voluntary sector organisation. The badges next to each supplier are stricter: a supplier is only badged when every buyer's notices agree.
Every supplier to Arts Council England with a profile57
- Access Systems (UK) Limited1
- AMION Consulting LTD1
- Azeus UK Limited1
- Ballicom Limited1
- BATES Office Services Ltd1
- BCN Group LTD1
- BottomLine Technologies Limited1
- Burges-Salmon LLP1
- Burns Owens Partnership Ltd2
- Buttress Architects Limited1
- BYTES SOFTWARE SERVICES Limited1
- CACI Limited1
- Calder Conferences Limited1
- Centre for Economics and Business Research Limited1
- Cision Group Limited1
- CIVICA UK Limited1
- Content + Cloud Limited1
- CTI Digital LimitedSME3
- DLA Piper (UK) LLP1
- DWF Law LLP1
- First Ascent Group LimitedSME2
- Flexiform Business Furniture LTD3
- Four Communications Limited1
- Gartner UK LTD1
- Gerald Eve LLP3
- Granicus, LLC1
- GRANICUS-FIRMSTEP Ltd1
- Ideagen PLC1
- Iron Mountain (UK) PLC1
- Johnsons 1871 Limited1
- Jones Lang LaSalle Limited1
- Kallidus Limited1
- Kerv Digital Limited1
- Landmark Information Group LTD1
- linkedIN1
- Michael Page International Limited1
- Michael Page International Recruitment Limited1
- Mphasis UK Limited3
- NG-IT Limited7
- NLA Media Access Limited3
- PRECISE MEDIA MONITORING LTD (trading as Onclusive)1
- Public Digital PLC3
- RSM UK Risk Assurance Services LLP1
- Runtime Collective Limited1
- SQW Limited2
- Steer Davies and Gleave Limited2
- Storm (ID) Ltd1
- The Access Group Limited2
- The Audience AgencySME4
- The Keyholding Company LTD2
- Thinks Insight and Strategy (Britain Thinks) Limited1
- TMI Systems Limited3
- TPX Impact LTD5
- University Of Bedfordshire1
- University of Essex1
- Virgin Media Business LTD1
- Wavehill Limited1
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Most active categories
The CPV codes on this work
The codes Arts Council England classifies its contracts under. Each one shows who else buys that work, the typical value, and what is coming up for renewal.
- 73110000Research services17
- 73210000Research consultancy services10
- 73000000Research and development services and related consultancy services10
- 48000000Software package and information systems8
- 72000000IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support7
- 79700000Investigation and security services5
- 79410000Business and management consultancy services5
- 79300000Market and economic research; polling and statistics5
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Arts Council England, in short
Who does Arts Council England award contracts to?
Across 241 contracts recorded since 2021, Arts Council England has used 188 different suppliers. The most frequent are NG-IT Limited (7 contracts), Espria Limited (6 contracts), Acanthurus Limited (5 contracts).
What does Arts Council England buy?
Its most active procurement categories are business and professional services, IT services, research and development. Categories are derived from the CPV codes published on each award notice.
When do Arts Council England contracts come up for renewal?
29 contracts awarded by Arts Council England have an end date within the next 18 months, the earliest on 31 Dec 2026. End dates come from the original award notices, so they are visible well before any re-tender is advertised.
How much does Arts Council England spend on contracts?
The median published contract value is £40k, across the 239 contracts that state a value. Published values are not added up here: a framework's value is a ceiling shared by every supplier on it, and the same value is often repeated across lots, so adding them up would overstate what is spent.
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Buyers like Arts Council England
Other local authorities based in the North West with a page40
Same type of body, by the address on their own notices. Most published awards first.
How these figures are worked out
- The last 12 months: award notices published from 9 November 2025 to 8 November 2026, each contract counted once however many suppliers or rows it has. The same window is used everywhere on this page.
- Year on year: Its published contract awards rose, then fell in the last year. Contracts by publication date in the 12 months to 8 Nov 2026 and the two years before it, oldest first: 35, 98 and 47. A change of more than 15% counts as a rise or fall; each year needs at least 5 contracts.
- 9 contracts end in the next 6 months: Published end dates between 8 November 2026 and 8 May 2027, each contract counted once.
- Has awarded contracts every year since 2021: At least one contract in every calendar year from 2021 to 2026, by award date (or publication date where the award date is later). Our records begin in 2021.
- Took on 32 new suppliers in the last 12 months: Suppliers named on a contract it awarded and published since 9 November 2025, and on none before. Counted by organisation, not by spelling.
- Most recent award: recorded 1 Sept 2026 (2 months ago).
- Values: value figures cover the 239 of 241 contracts where a value was published. Values are never added up: framework ceilings and values repeated across lots would make a total meaningless.
- Since 2021: totals count contracts by award date from January 2021, and suppliers by organisation rather than by spelling.
Sources
Contract data on this page is sourced from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder and published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under that licence. Figures cover contract award notices published from January 2021 onward, with comprehensive coverage from 2023. Earlier contracts, and any award not published to Find a Tender or Contracts Finder, will not appear. Figures may lag the source portals. Relative dates (such as “in 6 days”) count from 8 November 2026, when this page was built.
How to cite this data
Tender Radar (2026) Public sector contracts from Arts Council England [Dataset]. Professor AI. Available at: https://tender-radar.co.uk/buyers/arts-council-england (Accessed: 8 November 2026).
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