Contract renewals
Every contract has an end date
77,916 UK public sector contracts have a published end date in the next four years. Each one is a re-tender with a date already attached, sitting in public data that almost nobody reads.
The incumbent has known their date since the day they signed. Everyone else finds out when the new tender appears, by which point the specification is written. That gap is the whole opportunity.
Writing about this, or want the totals rather than the contracts? The research page has the next 18 months cut by sector and by type of buyer, how each figure is counted, and the whole lot as CSV.
By year
When contracts come up for renewal
Ending in
2026
30,260
contracts, across 2,274 buyers
Median £95k
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Ending in
2027
21,149
contracts, across 2,266 buyers
Median £150k
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Ending in
2028
16,495
contracts, across 2,032 buyers
Median £174k
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Ending in
2029
10,012
contracts, across 1,879 buyers
Median £262k
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Counts come from end dates published in the original award notices. Not every notice publishes one, so these are a floor rather than a complete picture of the market.