Public sector buyer
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has awarded 352 contracts worth £19,104,183,108 to 350 different suppliers between 2015 and 2026. Most of its award notices are recorded in London.
From award notices published on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Contracts awarded through other e-tendering portals are not included, so this is a floor, not a total.
What they have awarded, by year
Our award history is not continuous. We hold notices published January 2021 to July 2022, and September 2022 to November 2022, and July 2023 to August 2026, and nothing published between December 2022 and June 2023 — a gap of 7 months. Any period overlapping that gap is understated here, and the change between periods is not a market trend.
- 2024£18,812,076,975 · 3
- 2025£60,173,657 · 138
- 2026£117,820,629 · 185
We hold very few award notices for 2024, so that year is shown but cannot be compared with the rest. That is a gap in what has been published to us, not a fall in what was bought.
Years with no bar are years we hold no award notices for this buyer — which may mean they bought nothing, or that we do not have that period. We do not fill gaps in.
What they buy
- Vehicles69 contracts
- Business services61 contracts
- Construction37 contracts
- Hospitality34 contracts
- CPV 7518 contracts
- CPV 6617 contracts
- Furniture14 contracts
- IT services14 contracts
- Repair & maintenance13 contracts
- Architecture & engineering13 contracts
Who wins their work
- Palladium International Limited4 awards
- Knight Frank LLP3 awards
- FCDO Services3 awards
- K2 International LLC2 awards
- Intercontinental Grand Ankara2 awards
- ISUZU Movelit2 awards
- Distribuidora David Prestige Motors2 awards
- Allen Lane2 awards
- Al Futtaim Motors Company LLC2 awards
- Daikin Air Conditioning Argentina SA2 awards
How contested their contracts are
Of the awards that report it, the average was 3.4 bidders, and 2 were awarded to a single bidder — 9% of that sample.
Based on the 22 of 352 awards that publish a bidder count — buyers are not required to, and most do not.
How often they buy
Across the period we hold, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has awarded a contract roughly every 0.4 months on average.
That is an average across all their categories, not a schedule — and it is not a prediction of when any particular contract comes up. UK award notices almost never publish a contract end date, so nobody can build a reliable expiry calendar from open data. Why that is, and what works instead.
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