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Total contracts
1,835
Known spend
£1bn
1637 disclosed
Average value
£712,944
Per contract
Active suppliers
10
Last 5 years
Top suppliers
Last 5 years- 1
COMPUTACENTER (UK) LIMITED
11 winslatest 05 Oct 2026£969,577
- 2
University of Exeter
8 winslatest 16 Sept 2026£14m
- 3
IBM LIMITED
£1m
- 4
CAMPBELL SCIENTIFIC LTD
8 winslatest 21 Apr 2026£791,048
- 5
University of Reading
7 winslatest 16 Sept 2026£14m
- 6
IBM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED
£2m
- 7
BOXXE LIMITED
£144,519
- 8
University of Birmingham
6 winslatest 09 Oct 2026£14m
- 9
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
£14m
- 10
UK CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY
5 winslatest 08 Oct 2026£166,491
What they buy
By CPV categoryIT servicesCPV 72
568 contracts · £960m
Lab & precision equipmentCPV 38
141 contracts · £4m
Office & computing equipmentCPV 30
138 contracts · £15m
Business servicesCPV 79
134 contracts · £8m
SoftwareCPV 48
80 contracts · £21m
Education & trainingCPV 80
68 contracts · £2m
Construction worksCPV 45
41 contracts · £2m
Repair & maintenanceCPV 50
33 contracts · £973,964
Renewal radar
Awarded contracts predicted to come up for re-tender in the next 18 months
- Engineering Services HQ LV+HV replacement 2026
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Jul 2027).
Jul 2027
40% confident
Tender activity
Notices published per month — last 24 months
All contracts (1835)
Prosci licence renewal 25-26
Prosci Licence Renewal 2025-2026
IBM supportline (zos/zvm)
Provision of IBM SupportLine services to existing zOS/zVM mainframes.
VCP moodle
Moodle hosting and support packages for the following sites for the period 15/09/2025 to 14/09/2026
Purchase of electronic resistance thermometers
Purchase of HMT330 Electronic Resistance Thermometers. This is proprietary hardware, which is the core component of the climate network providing principal temperature measurements
Essentials of management 25-26
The Essentials of Management online e-learning course, funded by Met Office VCP and supported by WMO is a long-standing annual activity. The course is aimed at managers and aspirin
K7 buoy redeployment
K7 Buoy Site Deployment - MV C-Odyssey - in port loading mooring
VCP media studio equipment
Media Studio Equipment for Cook Island and Fiji.
DN777211 - media weather graphics and content production
We are looking for a supplier to supply world class software and services so that the Met Office can produce broadcast quality graphics and content to support its own media channel
Annual IBM Z workload scheduler subscription
Annual renewal of subscription to IBM Z Workload Scheduler (2025-26)
Mass oracle T2 media tapes
Procurement of Oracle T2 Media Tapes x 1000
Renewal of subscription for servicenow DCM
Annual renewal of ServiceNow Data Content Manager (2025-26)
Mapbox subscription renewal
Annual renewal of Mapbox subscription (2025-26)
DN781382
GDP Drifting Buoy Barometer Upgrades
PI sunshine duration sensor
PI Sunshine duration sensor CSD3 Sunshine Duration Sensor / 15m
Aries cooler repair
Repair to ARIES airborne research instrument detector cooler. The work required is to return a faulty assembly to the OEM for repair.
CR1000X prebuilt logger enclosures
Transactional purchase of operational stock for stores.
Digitisation of heritage meteorological records
Digitisation of archival UK & international meteorological service records.
Digitisation of archival climate & rainfall records
Heritage digitisation of archival climate & rainfall records.
Public perception market research
Market Research to measure public perceptions of forecast accuracy through the Met Office direct channels.
Legal support secondment
Secondment of legal resource to inhouse legal team.