Buyer profile
The National Archives
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Total contracts
349
Known spend
£72m
296 disclosed
Average value
£244,557
Per contract
Active suppliers
10
Last 5 years
Top suppliers
Last 5 years- 1
Venturebright Ltd
2 winslatest 07 Aug 2026£2m
- 2
Zaizi Limited
2 winslatest 15 Jun 2026£499,200
- 3
Progress Software Corporation
2 winslatest 26 Mar 2026£150,966
- 4
TORCHBOX LTD
£71,775
- 5
Lamb Personnel Limited
2 winslatest 06 Mar 2026£40,526
- 6
NLA Media Access Limited
2 winslatest 01 Jul 2026£39,297
- 7
The Stationery Office ltd
£3m
- 8
THE DEXTROUS WEB LTD
£3m
- 9
DSSR LIMITED
£500,000
- 10
Preservica Ltd
1 winlatest 27 Jun 2025£433,642
What they buy
By CPV categorySoftwareCPV 48
72 contracts · £15m
Office & computing equipmentCPV 30
54 contracts · £2m
IT servicesCPV 72
48 contracts · £12m
R&D servicesCPV 73
32 contracts · £497,664
Business servicesCPV 79
13 contracts · £453,530
Recreation, culture & sportCPV 92
11 contracts · £11m
Printed matterCPV 22
6 contracts · £68,449
Education & trainingCPV 80
5 contracts · £55,400
Renewal radar
Awarded contracts predicted to come up for re-tender in the next 18 months
- Occupational Health Services
Predicted using median duration of UK contracts in the same CPV division (44 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Jan 2027).
Jan 2027
40% confident
Tender activity
Notices published per month — last 24 months
All contracts (349)
IT hardware additions - laptops
50 x HP EliteBook 840 G3 - Core i5 6200U - 8GB RAM - 256GB SSD
Occupational health
Occupational health services - Crown Commercial Service Framework RM3795 Lot 2
Employee assistance programme
Employee Assistance Programme
3 Year SIM contract
3 Year SIM only contract
IT hardware additions - laptops
IT hardware additions - laptops HP Elite x2 1012 G1 Hybrid-Notebook Quantity - 40
Refresh of guide to collaboration between the archive and higher education sectors
This invitation to tender specifies the requirements for the provision of a refreshed version of The National Archives' Guide to collaboration between the archive and higher educat
Development of training modules and materials for successful service transformation for archives
The purpose of this procurement process is for The National Archives (TNA) to select a supplier to create a training module for use by TNA's Archives Sector Development department
Red hat licences
12 month licensing contract for Red Hat
Arabian gulf digital archive project - website design and build
The National Archives of the United Arab Emirates (NA) collects documents of special historical value to the UAE, Gulf Cooperation Council states and the Arabian Peninsula, both fr
IT hardware additions - laptops
100 X HP 840 G3 - Core i5 6200U/2.3 GHz 14" HD 8GB RAM -256SSD 8G Windows 10 Pro
HR system
3 year extension to current contract
Finance system upgrade
Upgrade of the following systems to latest versions: SUN Systems V6.3 iPOS 5.7.5 Q&A 10.1.5 eRemit 5.4.3.1 SPindle Professional Sapphire Power Tools
Splunk annual support renewal
TNA requires support for the on-site Splunk applications. 12 month contract, from 2 November 2017, to 1 November 2018. Splunk Enterprise - Enterprise Support Renewal - 25GB (produc
Optical character recognition (OCR) services
This document is an Invitation to Tender (ITT) for the supply of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) services to TNA. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software will be applied t
PSN connection
Connection to Public Services Network. Awarded under Crown Commercial Service Framework RM1045.
Backup solution
The objective of this tender exercise is to procure, deploy and transition to a disk and cloud based backup solution. The solution is to replace a legacy tape based backup solution
Dark archive upgrade
The National Archives has a requirement for the supply, delivery and installation of hardware as specified below, together with an Oracle Premier Support for Systems service for th
IT health check
The requirement is for an IT Health Check to meet our obligations for Public Services Network (PSN) compliance and contribute to the overall information security posture of The Nat
Fundraising strategy development
The National Archives (TNA) wishes to appoint a supplier to provide strategic fundraising support, helping us to establish a charitable body through which we can pursue major fundi
Workforce development strategy
The National Archives (TNA) seeks to commission a piece of work to scope and create a workforce development strategy for the archives sector. Delivery of the strategy will be led b