Public contracts
Awards published by government departments, councils and the NHS on Contracts Finder. Search by the company that was paid, or by the body that paid.
4,670
awards held
£147.4bn
announced in total
1,405
name a company number
Grange Farm Lane Junction Improvement £35,000
CA8271 - IT Server Infrastructure (Switches) £90,000
Provision of Universal Mailers £60,000
COVID-19 Vaccinations Programme - Rostering Data Solution £679,050
CA8138 - South Devon College ITT for the provision of Computer Networking Hardware £98,511
Driver Risk Assessment and On-road Training £75,000
PHE_Scientific- Ultra Low Freezers (-20) for COVID £15,000
CA8144 - Provision of a Oral Liquids Filling Line £203,748
Reactive Maintenance, Minor Works and Replacement/Installation of Domestic Heating Systems £409,375
RA297697 - X24 - Deputy Heads of Midwifery and Deputy Directors of Midwifery leadership accelerator programme £41,350
CA8327 - Play, outdoor equipment and MUGA for DNEAT Academy -The Bishops CofE Primary Academy £78,647
RA297877 - X24 - Training in Remote Assessment and Diagnosis of Dementia £73,371
RA297850 - X24 - International Comparison Medicines Uptake £109,140
Provision of Employee Benefits for Health, Wealth and Wellbeing Framework - AWARD £0
Provision of Employee Benefits for Health, Wealth and Wellbeing Framework - AWARD £0
Provision of Employee Benefits for Health, Wealth and Wellbeing Framework - AWARD £0
Provision of Employee Benefits for Health, Wealth and Wellbeing Framework - AWARD £0
RA297750 - X24 - Hospital Discharge to Assess Policy Evaluation £79,280
CA8208 - South Devon College Request for Quotation for Outsourced PR contract £43,200
Provision of a Brand New Permanently Mounted Salt Spreader fitted to a compact tractor c/w Front Snowplough - AWARD £24,150
Provision of a Brand New 3 Tonne Tow Tractor - AWARD £11,316
2021-03-05 1200 QBH014 Ipswich to Bramfield House (4 seats and a passenger assistant) - AWARD £58,417
Contract for Provision of Special Educational Needs (SEN) Mediation and Dispute Resolution Service £140,000
RA297057 - X24 - Open and Inclusive Recruitment Guidance £56,603
RA297412 - X24 - Palliative and End of Life -Lexicon £35,000
Written Translation Service for Hampshire Constabulary (ACRO) £563,000
RA297357 - X24 - Innovation Lab Discovery Support £89,750
Agency Staff Deputy CFO £60,000
GBC - Guildford Economic Regeneration Project (GERP) - Legal Services - AWARD £800,000
RA296711 - Housing toolkit for commissioners, people with a learning disability and autistic people £47,500
Publication of Redacted Contracts £606,600,000
Publication of Retracted Contracts £349,000,000
Publication of Redacted Contracts £206,703,507
Tender for the Supply of Laboratory Consumables and Reagents £30,000,000
Tender for the Supply of Laboratory Consumables and Reagents £30,000,000
Tender for the Supply of Laboratory Consumables and Reagents £30,000,000
Tender for the Supply of Laboratory Consumables and Reagents £30,000,000
Tender for the Supply of Laboratory Consumables and Reagents £30,000,000
Post Office Banking Automation £26,000,000
Weight Management Services - Obesity £22,843,295
Weight Management Services - Obesity £22,843,295
Weight Management Services - Obesity £22,843,295
Weight Management Services - Obesity £22,843,295
Weight Management Services - Obesity £22,843,295
Weight Management Services - Obesity £22,843,295
Covid 19 Accounting Services IHPN £11,000,000
Level 3 Mathematics Support Programme £10,000,000
Supply of Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers for the Care of Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) £8,424,570
Supply and Installation of LED Street Lighting and CMS £8,367,534
Award of a Call Off Contract for WEST YORKSHIRE POLICE for the provision of Critical Communications Infrastructure £6,500,000
Reading public contract notices
Contracts Finder is where public bodies in Britain have to announce what they are buying and who they bought it from. It is genuinely open — Open Contracting data, published under the Open Government Licence — and almost unusable for the question people actually have, because it publishes notices rather than suppliers. You can look up a contract. You cannot look up a company and see what it has been paid.
That is the gap this fills, and it fills it honestly. A quarter of notices state the supplier’s Companies House number; the rest give a name and an address. An award is attached to a company page only when the buyer identified the company, so a total on a company page is a floor — real money, certainly awarded, and certainly not all of it.
Read the figure as the size of an announced deal rather than as spending. A contract can end early, be extended, or be spent well under its ceiling, and none of that comes back to the notice. Where the award date sits long before the publication date, that gap is itself worth a look.
What is missing entirely is everything below the publication thresholds. A great deal of public money is spent in amounts too small to announce, so the small end of this data is thin in a way that is not visible from inside it.
Frequently asked questions
Is this what the government actually spent?▾
No, and the difference matters. Contracts Finder publishes award notices: what a buyer said it was awarding and the value it expected. A contract can be cut short, extended, spent under or spent over, and none of that appears here. Treat a figure as the size of the deal that was announced, not as money that changed hands.
Why can I not find every contract a company has?▾
Because about a quarter of notices state the supplier’s Companies House number and the rest give only a name. We attach an award to a company page when the buyer identified it, and not otherwise — so a company’s total here is a floor, not a full account. Searching by name on this page finds the rest, including the ones we have deliberately not attributed.
Which buyers have to publish here?▾
Central government, its agencies and arm’s-length bodies, local councils, the NHS and other contracting authorities, for contracts above the thresholds set in the procurement rules. Below those thresholds much public spending is simply never published, which is why small contracts are under-represented.
What does the award date mean?▾
The date the buyer recorded as the award. It is often weeks or months before the notice was published, which is why both dates are held here — a notice published long after its award date is itself worth noticing.
Can I get this through the API?▾
Yes. The same awards, the same totals and the same company links are available from the opendata.bot API, including every award attached to a company number in one call. The underlying notices are published by Contracts Finder as Open Contracting data under the Open Government Licence.
Where to go next
- Company search — find a company by name or number
- Gender pay gap — what large employers report
- Registered charities — including the ones removed
- Persons with significant control — who controls a company
- REST API — the same awards in one call