# Nesta — UK public sector contract awards

> A prime supplier profile built from sourced government contract award notices.

## Key facts

- Awards: 24
- Known award value: £42,330,332
- First award: 3 October 2016
- Latest award: 12 March 2026

## Top public sector buyers

- [UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED](/buyers/uk-shared-business-services-limited/contract-awards) — 8 awards
- [Department for Culture, Media and Sport](/buyers/department-for-culture-media-and-sport/contract-awards) — 2 awards
- [Water Services Regulation Authority \(Ofwat\)](/buyers/water-services-regulation-authority-ofwat/contract-awards) — 2 awards
- [Attain](/buyers/attain/contract-awards) — 1 awards
- [BEIS](/buyers/beis/contract-awards) — 1 awards

## Contract awards

### [Neurotech Deliberative Research](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b77a4355-2a17-41b4-9f08-9fd9ef51a9f5)

INFORMATION COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE · £48,201 · 12 March 2026 · awarded

### [Manchester Prize Administrator Round 2 Stage 2](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-35563dd7-1f46-4a52-9732-a2d603a8affd)

DSIT · £498,100 · 1 April 2025 · awarded

### [Ofwat Innovation Fund delivery partner 2025-30](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-f5b314d0-3c71-4af5-8083-8484cbde4dbd)

Water Services Regulation Authority \(Ofwat\) · £14,500,000 · 31 March 2025 · awarded

### [Ofwat Innovation Fund delivery partner 2025-30](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-d8619230-d8fd-43dd-bbfe-799b4e03102d)

O F W A T · £14,500,000 · 31 March 2025 · awarded

### [Smart Data Challenge Prize Delivery Partner](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-5dea7326-dfb3-47d6-a8ab-777d7f871945)

BEIS · £2,481,258 · 18 August 2023 · awarded

### [NHS Mid and South Essex ICB Asset Based Community Mapping ITQ For Basildon and Brentwood Alliance](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-021958d3-21b2-40ce-8da8-e06296d2fe08)

Attain · £74,773 · 9 January 2023 · awarded

### [UK SBS - PS22039 - An Interactive, Data-Driven Map of Entities Within the UK Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-22e48558-f747-43fe-8fc4-b44840cb4e0b)

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £39,374 · 26 January 2022 · awarded

### [UKRI-1649 Ad-Hoc Cleaning Services at 58VE](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-98d92ca5-911d-4acd-86dd-d2786f815f7e)

UK Research & Innovation · £60,000 · 22 November 2021 · awarded

### [Research on Social Mobility within the Creative Industries](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-04f7fd76-2685-43b2-9e18-e534ac0928fd)

Department For Culture Media & Sport · £20,000 · 8 December 2020 · awarded

### [Business Basic interim and full evaluation report](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-2734a699-df60-4935-8efc-774d168e18f8)

Business Energy and Industrial Strategy · £90,000 · 26 May 2021 · awarded

### [CR19046 Open Local Data Tool](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-fcae3df4-b787-42d8-bf9c-d1e9524fafa3)

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £49,135 · 30 October 2019 · awarded

### [GB-King's lynn: Norfolk Housing Advisor Programme](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-a0151758-bea5-4194-bc7c-af079539f389)

Borough Council of King's Lynn & West Norfolk · £20,000 · 8 March 2021 · awarded

### [Innovation Fund Partner](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-920c6c2a-ba01-4b82-83c1-6b4c43701266)

Water Services Regulation Authority \(Ofwat\) · £4,324,006 · 20 November 2020 · awarded

### [UK SBS PR19085 UKRI Innovate UK Services for the Scope & Design of FLIP Programme](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-fa06d5e9-5127-4aaf-90ee-027f1ad5bc8d)

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £123,500 · 8 January 2020 · awarded

### [UK SBS PR16226 Delivery of the Global Innovation Policy Accelerator \(GIPA\) Programme](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-18f89114-f08f-486c-bb55-a43a3c7173fe)

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £1,982,735 · 24 January 2017 · awarded

### [Provision of consultancy for HMT Affordable Credit Challenge Fund](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-c646a73c-754e-4e54-9c17-d687f521c2b6)

HM Treasury : HM Treasury · £0 · 14 May 2019 · awarded

### [Innovation-friendly Regulatory Approaches - Case Study Analysis](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-19a6ecb7-c981-4522-8449-69dec02f6463)

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £49,960 · 11 December 2018 · awarded

### [Inclusive Economy Partnership \(IEP\) Steering Group Delivery Manager](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0ffc521e-85c3-4b2b-b0a8-46945f58f063)

DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA & SPORT · £99,918 · 5 February 2019 · awarded

### [Medium Term Areas of Focus](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-68a7f122-94be-4d97-a783-8842b857f231)

ESSEX COUNTY COUNCIL · £1,928,924 · 31 August 2018 · awarded

### [UK SBS SSAPS18121 - UK Research and Innovation - Innovate UK Business Basics](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-b5d9caca-1c12-43dd-af12-ccea69d4e30d)

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £180,000 · 7 September 2018 · awarded

### [What Works Centre for Children's Social Care - Incubator and research Partner Contracts](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-77c7a21e-b5d3-4a49-8ca7-1e76d766afc2)

Department For Education · £9,806,354 · 26 September 2017 · awarded

### [UK SBS BLOJEU-CR17097BEIS - Follow up research on incubators and accelerators](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1b0e2dea-56da-4eb7-b63b-b81ee8976cf7)

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £84,212 · 3 October 2017 · awarded

### [Value of Culture Research](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-561440f9-6443-4456-9775-6f0efbd8b254)

The Department For Culture Media & Sport · £75,018 · 19 December 2016 · awarded

### [UK SBS CR16085 BIS Review of UK Incubators & Accelerators](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-1d5ec8c4-adca-11e6-9901-0019b9f3037b)

UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED · £29,052 · 3 October 2016 · awarded