# Department for Business and Trade: UK public-sector contract awards > A public buyer profile built from sourced government contract award notices. ## Key facts - Awards: 270 - Known award value: £80,100,801 - Distinct contract winners: 184 - First award: 1 March 2023 - Latest award: 21 September 2026 ## Top contract winners - [ipsos Market Research](/contract-winners/ipsos-market-research/public-sector-contract-awards): 6 awards - QA: 6 awards - [Ashurst](/contract-winners/ashurst/public-sector-contract-awards): 5 awards - Centre for Strategy & Evaluation Services: 5 awards - [Yonder Consulting](/contract-winners/yonder-consulting/public-sector-contract-awards): 5 awards ## Contract awards ### [British Shipbuilders Claims and Liabilies Actuarial Report](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f23e1fd4-5a1f-495e-ae13-113c656709f0) Department for Business and Trade · Deloitte · £40,000 · 13 March 2026 · awarded ### [Primrose Grant Funding Agreement & Supplementary Work](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-65092fdb-8aef-4212-b231-ecbb7f0251c4) Department for Business and Trade · PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP \(PWC\) · £200,000 · 11 February 2026 · awarded ### [Level 4, 5, and 6 CIPS Direct Award Request](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-fa61d3b3-fdaf-4b3a-9227-1c42cbfa3fb4) Department for Business and Trade · Chartered Institute Of Procurement And Supply \(CIPS\) · £83,576 · 5 March 2026 · awarded ### [Supply of a Penetration Testing Service](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1baa21e4-6fb7-4401-bb5a-fe737406c230) Department for Business and Trade · Salus Digital Security Limited · £100,000 · 11 February 2026 · awarded ### [One Platform One Login \(OPOL\) External Quantitative Research](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bf2c11b1-564c-4e1f-8692-1dd3816ec210) Department for Business and Trade · LSE Consulting · £49,937 · 2 February 2026 · awarded ### [Cyber Security Capability Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-77cc88dd-0e22-45ca-ae0c-874c92704e14) Department for Business and Trade · Actica Consulting · £4,000,000 · 26 January 2026 · awarded ### [One Platform, One Log-in Digital Business ID -Business Entity Directory Discovery](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-20604cbd-90f1-4edb-b9c2-fe23f456e1c7) Department for Business and Trade · Deloitte LLP · £300,000 · 26 January 2026 · awarded ### [Command and House Paper Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5520abd7-931f-4cb5-bcee-bdf003dc0bd4) Department for Business and Trade · H H Associates Limited · £160,000 · 16 January 2026 · awarded ### [Provision of an Electric Vehicle \(EV\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1fd469fd-cd75-4b25-b91f-81103aabb282) Department for Business and Trade · Volkswagen Financial Services \(UK\) Limited · £16,560 · 30 January 2026 · awarded ### [Managed Print Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7f2c6b00-8851-496c-afe7-e734b9e826cb) Department for Business and Trade · Allied Publicity Services \(Manchester\) Limited · £2,400,000 · 2 February 2026 · awarded ### [Vehicle Hire Solutions](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7fcbd1cb-1740-4551-acb5-599dbaf454b5) Department for Business and Trade · Enterprise Rent-A-Car UK Limited · £55,000 · 26 January 2026 · awarded ### [Slack Business Plus Licenses](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ee0e0f5d-b0e2-4ea6-9bd4-27002d8f45fd) Department for Business and Trade · Softcat PLC · £39,171 · 27 January 2026 · awarded ### [Level 6 Improvement Leader Apprenticeship](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-daf7733d-2d95-4fe0-99c5-87d2835d0c16) Department for Business and Trade · UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE · £15,000 · 31 May 2026 · awarded ### [Debt Recovery and Litigation Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7fa8f3ae-7073-4308-97e4-c1272868e389) Department for Business and Trade · Shakespeare Martineau LLP · £400,000 · 10 December 2025 · awarded ### [Modern Methods of Construction \(Market and Supply Chains\)](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-51dde5b5-d660-4f5a-9391-d1b489d53679) Department for Business and Trade · Risk and Policy Analysts Ltd · £173,050 · 20 January 2026 · awarded ### [Pre Feasibility Study for Water Project in Panama](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-bb12cabf-6740-499a-8963-6e267125c292) Department for Business and Trade · WSP UK Limited · £200,000 · 19 January 2026 · awarded ### [Level 6 Professional Economist Apprenticeship](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5b14fa7e-100c-4ad2-895d-c566f015380b) Department for Business and Trade · University of Kent · £174,800 · 1 September 2025 · awarded ### [Level 7 Operational Research Specialist Apprenticeship](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-951c48e8-31a1-4b85-8e7c-3db139496d71) Department for Business and Trade · University of Kent · £56,000 · 15 January 2026 · awarded ### [Executive Agency Support for SCS3 Permanent Recruitment Campaign](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0c16ed48-e541-46ff-94f3-0918d16e9421) Department for Business and Trade · Korn Ferry · £65,000 · 13 January 2026 · awarded ### [Level 4 Protective security adviser Apprenticeship](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-7516e8f3-1eef-457a-bdc3-d899c20ef3dd) Department for Business and Trade · Mercury Training Services Ltd · £90,000 · 13 January 2026 · awarded ### [Eyecare Services](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-fb8439b1-13ec-42a2-a6aa-ea7eb8b719bf) Department for Business and Trade · Specsavers Optical Superstores Ltd · £48,000 · 16 December 2025 · awarded ### [Project\_4973 - Digital Adoption Trial 2](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ddd9783d-b9a6-4ab4-ad38-b0455a87a555) Department for Business and Trade · Verian Group UK Limited · £316,981 · 7 November 2025 · awarded ### [Level 7 Senior Professional Economist apprenticeship](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-814ab2c2-3acb-4115-995d-7628b5c6fc3d) Department for Business and Trade · Queen Mary University of London · £10,616 · 30 September 2025 · awarded ### [Make Work Pay \(MWP\) Monitoring & Evaluation \(M&E\) Scoping Study](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-385058fd-2e0a-4674-bb9f-95089886a2e2) Department for Business and Trade · IPSOS \(MARKET RESEARCH\) LTD · £120,730 · 28 November 2025 · awarded ### [Sayari Graph Analyst Application](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-140867a9-71e9-40dd-9d81-e247f5a97591) Department for Business and Trade · Sayari Labs Limited · £706,883 · 8 December 2025 · awarded Page 3 of 11; 270 total records.