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Public sector contracts from UK SBS
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- 22
- Awards, last 12 months
- 61
- Awards since 2021
- 53
- Distinct suppliers
- £149k
- Median contract value
- 10
- Ending in 18 months
Hatched quarters fall only partly inside the next 18 months. Busiest whole quarter: Q3 2027.
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- Most of its current contracts end in the next 12 months
- Has awarded contracts every year since 2022
- Took on 17 new suppliers in the last 12 months
22 contract awards published in the last 12 months, up from 16 the year before, and 61 since 2021 from 53 suppliers.
UK SBS at a glance
Its most active procurement category is research and development.
National Centre For Social Research appears most frequently, holding 3 awards.
The median published contract value is £149k (61 contracts state a value).
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10 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 UK SBS 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.
11 Nov 2025 (1 year ago)
Contract award
Awarded to Carbon Trust Advisory Ltd
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Most frequent suppliers
- National Centre For Social ResearchCharity3 awards
- Technopolis Limited3 awards
- Know. Consulting Limited2 awards
- Raytheon Systems Limited2 awards
- Frazer-Nash Consultancy Limited2 awards
- Ramboll UK LTD2 awards
- i10 Limited1 award
- Goonhilly Earth Station Limited1 award
- Entrepreneurial-Spark Limited1 award
- Baringa Partners LLP`1 award
How much goes to small firms and the voluntary sector
21 of 51 awards
0 of 51 awards
Awards since November 2023 where UK SBS 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 UK SBS with a profile37
- ANSWER DIGITAL Limited1
- Ashurst LLP1
- Baringa Partners LLP`1
- Basis Social LTD1
- Burges-Salmon LLP1
- Calder Conferences Limited1
- Carbon Trust Advisory Limited1
- Centre For Sustainable EnergyCharity1
- Deloitte LLP Ltd1
- Elsevier B.V. Ltd1
- Frazer-Nash Consultancy Limited2
- FRONTIER ECONOMICS Ltd1
- I.F.F Research Limited1
- IFF Research Limited1
- IFM Engage Limited1
- Informed Solutions Limited1
- Institute For Employment StudiesCharity1
- Know. Consulting Limited2
- kpmg LLP1
- National Centre For Social ResearchCharity3
- Optima Health UK LTD1
- OVE ARUP and PARTNERS LIMITED1
- PRECISE MEDIA MONITORING LTD (trading as Onclusive)1
- PriceWaterHouseCoopers LLP1
- Ramboll UK LTD2
- RAND Europe Community Interest CompanyCIC1
- Raytheon Systems Limited2
- Regen SW Limited1
- RSM UK Consulting LLP1
- SQW Limited1
- Steer Davies and Gleave Limited1
- Technopolis Limited3
- TlT LLP1
- Turner and Townsend Consulting Limited1
- UCL Consultants LTD1
- YouGov PLC1
- Zoonou LimitedSME1
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Most active categories
The CPV codes on this work
The codes UK SBS classifies its contracts under. Each one shows who else buys that work, the typical value, and what is coming up for renewal.
- 73000000Research and development services and related consultancy services41
- 73110000Research services4
- 73200000Research and development consultancy services3
- 79100000Legal services2
- 80500000Training services1
- 79993100Facilities management services1
- 79411100Business development consultancy services1
- 72590000Computer-related professional services1
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UK SBS, in short
Who does UK SBS award contracts to?
Across 61 contracts recorded since 2021, UK SBS has used 53 different suppliers. The most frequent are National Centre For Social Research (3 contracts), Technopolis Limited (3 contracts), Know. Consulting Limited (2 contracts).
What does UK SBS buy?
Its most active procurement categories are research and development, business and professional services, IT services. Categories are derived from the CPV codes published on each award notice.
When do UK SBS contracts come up for renewal?
10 contracts awarded by UK SBS have an end date within the next 18 months, the earliest on 16 Nov 2026. End dates come from the original award notices, so they are visible well before any re-tender is advertised.
How much does UK SBS spend on contracts?
The median published contract value is £149k, across the 61 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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How these figures are worked out
- The last 12 months: award notices published from 8 November 2025 to 7 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 were level, then rose in the last year. Contracts by publication date in the 12 months to 7 Nov 2026 and the two years before it, oldest first: 17, 16 and 22. A change of more than 15% counts as a rise or fall; each year needs at least 5 contracts.
- Most of its current contracts end in the next 12 months: 8 of its 15 contracts with an end date still to come end by 7 November 2027. Shown when that is more than half, with at least 5.
- Has awarded contracts every year since 2022: At least one contract in every calendar year from 2022 to 2026, by award date (or publication date where the award date is later). Our records begin in 2021.
- Took on 17 new suppliers in the last 12 months: Suppliers named on a contract it awarded and published since 8 November 2025, and on none before. Counted by organisation, not by spelling.
- Most recent award: recorded 3 Nov 2026 (4 days ago).
- 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 7 November 2026, when this page was built.
How to cite this data
Tender Radar (2026) Public sector contracts from UK SBS [Dataset]. Professor AI. Available at: https://tender-radar.co.uk/buyers/uk-sbs (Accessed: 7 November 2026).
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