Buyer profile
COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY
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Total contracts
371
Known spend
£48m
346 disclosed
Average value
£139,212
Per contract
Active suppliers
10
Last 5 years
Top suppliers
Last 5 years- 1
NLA Media Access
£24,400
- 2
Bytes Software Services Limited
1 winlatest 27 Jan 2026£8m
- 3
MORGAN HUNT GROUP LIMITED
1 winlatest 01 Sept 2025£2m
- 4
ADECCO UK LIMITED
1 winlatest 01 Sept 2025£800,000
- 5
Syntura Group Limited
1 winlatest 01 Dec 2025£188,365
- 6
Little Fish (UK) Limited
£175,000
- 7
ALVAO s.r.o.
1 winlatest 16 Jan 2026£156,025
- 8
MERGERMARKET LIMITED
£120,000
- 9
REFINITIV LIMITED
£88,321
- 10
LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company
1 winlatest 16 Jan 2026£81,355
What they buy
By CPV categoryBusiness servicesCPV 79
117 contracts · £19m
R&D servicesCPV 73
65 contracts · £3m
IT servicesCPV 72
53 contracts · £3m
SoftwareCPV 48
35 contracts · £7m
Education & trainingCPV 80
19 contracts · £811,934
Office & computing equipmentCPV 30
15 contracts · £2m
Radio, TV & telecomsCPV 32
12 contracts · £2m
Recreation, culture & sportCPV 92
10 contracts · £503,594
Renewal radar
Awarded contracts predicted to come up for re-tender in the next 18 months
- CMA Summer 2025 License Renewal
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (35 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Apr 2028).
Apr 2028
40% confident
Tender activity
Notices published per month — last 24 months
All contracts (371)
Behavioural insight testing qualitative research
To inform the roll-out of two new products designed to improve the quality of cartel leads reported to the CMA, a decision tree, and a new online reporting form ('the products'), t
Waste metal recycling: quantitative survey research
Quantitative business survey of the Parties' suppliers to provide evidence for the phase 2 merger case.
OPEN source intelligence (osint) training requirement
This requirement is for the CMA to procure an external training provider to deliver training for nominated staff within its Enforcement Division to become competent Open Source Int
Newspaper copyright licensing
Copyright allocation for news articles
Subscription to parr database
Subscription to a database providing regulatory and policy data.
Procurement of an economic expert
Data analysis services.
United kingdom accreditation service
UKAS accreditation.
RAID software
Specialist Software
MLEX
Provision of access to the MLEX database
Financial times (online subscription)
Digital Online Subscription
Emergency mass notification system
Mass Communication System for the Competition and Markets Authority
Microsoft premeir support
Microsoft Premier Support renewal
Social media monitoring
The CMA wishes to procure a social media-monitoring platform.
Egress license and support
CMA's Egress Licence renewal and software support
PSN services
CMA is looking to adjust the scope and capacity of its VPN/PSN/SIP/Internet services and the underpinning network topology to cope with growth and support the second phase of its C
Boardpad services license renewal
Subscription renewal for hosting of the Boardpad application to enable support of CMA Board meetings and the governance function through the use of that application
Aggresso license renewal
This is a renewal of our existing Support and Maintenance with Unit4 for our Agresso licences.
Cloud assesment and readiness
As part of cloud 2 transformation programme, Business service is looking to procure resources to help them implement the architecture, routemap and migrate eg database migration fo
Converged IT support
CMA are looking to re-procure the following Maintenance and Support contracts. 1.NetApps Storage Area Network 2.Checkpoint Firewall 3.HP Servers 4.CISCO Switches and Firewalls At p
Scotland IT hardware
CMA requires the purchase of IT Hardware in preparation for the Scotland office expansion in 2018.