🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Professional Services & Consulting
Professional Services & Consulting tenders in United Kingdom.
Sell to State lists 8 United Kingdom portals and buyers that publish professional services and consulting tenders. The award numbers below come from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices.
Search United Kingdom Professional Services & Consulting tenders →🇬🇧 Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices · Nov 2024 – Oct 2026
Who wins professional services and consulting contracts in the United Kingdom?
CPV sector: the sector of each award's CPV code, the EU classification of what a contract buys. Other counts on the site use keyword labels and can differ.
526 professional services and consulting awards in the United Kingdom went to 376 suppliers from November 2024 to October 2026. Of 376 winning suppliers, 78% won once. Their awards are 56% of the total. The United Kingdom is below the median: the top 1% of suppliers won 5%, against 13% in the median country (16 countries).
Ranked by stated value, the top 1% of suppliers hold 79% of GBP 2.26 billion. That is 74 points above the top 1% share of awards. The largest supplier, REED SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED, won 16 awards (3%).
- Awards
- 526
- Contract awards from Nov 2024 – Oct 2026, each counted once.
- Winning suppliers
- 376
- Suppliers with one or more awards, counted by normalised name.
- Won one award
- 78%
- Share of winning suppliers with exactly one award.
- Top 1% of suppliers
- 5%
- Share of awards won by the 3 suppliers with the most awards.
Fewer than 2,000 awards in this window. Read the numbers with care.
Top suppliers
| # | Supplier | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (GBP) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | REED SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED | 16 | 3% | 3.87 million | under 1% |
| 2 | WSP UK Limited | 6 | 1% | 1.80 million | under 1% |
| 3 | Mott MacDonald | 6 | 1% | 1.43 million | under 1% |
| 4 | Arcadis Consulting (UK) Ltd | 5 | under 1% | 9.82 million | under 1% |
| 5 | Ove Arup & Partners Limited | 5 | under 1% | 1.72 million | under 1% |
| 6 | Ashurst Perkins Coie UK LLP | 5 | under 1% | 321,988 | under 1% |
| 7 | KPMG LLP | 4 | under 1% | 3.24 million | under 1% |
| 8 | Alexander Mann Solutions Limited | 4 | under 1% | 1.71 million | under 1% |
| 9 | Aecom | 4 | under 1% | 1.09 million | under 1% |
| 10 | ASA Recruitment (Quick Quotes) | 4 | under 1% | 815,493 | under 1% |
Top buyers
| # | Buyer | Awards | Share of awards | Stated value (GBP) | Share of value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Innovate UK | 35 | 7% | 183,416 | under 1% |
| 2 | UK SHARED BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED | 21 | 4% | 1.45 million | under 1% |
| 3 | APUC Limited | 17 | 3% | – | – |
| 4 | National Highways | 13 | 2% | 21.6 million | under 1% |
| 5 | Environment Agency | 11 | 2% | 1.89 million | under 1% |
| 6 | Homes England (the name adopted by the Homes and Communities Agency) | 10 | 2% | 1.56 million | under 1% |
| 7 | LHC Procurement Group | 10 | 2% | – | – |
| 8 | Scottish Government | 9 | 2% | 589,463 | under 1% |
| 9 | BIP SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 9 | 2% | 451,844 | under 1% |
| 10 | DSIT | 8 | 2% | 1.91 million | under 1% |
Stated value: the amount in each award notice, split between joint winners and capped at the 99.9th percentile.
How we counted
- Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices for the United Kingdom. One record is one contract award: a buyer, a supplier, a date and, where the source gives it, an amount.
- November 2024 to October 2026. This is the latest 24 months of our data for the United Kingdom, up to the last month with a normal number of awards.
- 5% of the award records for the United Kingdom in this window have a CPV code. A record without a code is in no sector. Professional Services & Consulting here means architecture, engineering and inspection services (CPV 71), research and development (73), and business services (79): legal, accounting, market research, consultancy, recruitment and temporary staff. It leaves out security services (Defense & Security), printing, financial and insurance services, IT services (IT & Software), road and energy engineering, and building management (Facilities Management). Each award counts in one sector only. We do not use our keyword sector labels here. A hand check found too many wrong labels for most sectors. How we counted in 39 countries.
- We count each award once: one notice, one amount, one date. We leave out awards with no supplier name, placeholder names such as "persona natural", names that are only a legal form, and names that appear on thousands of unrelated awards.
- We count suppliers by normalised name. A firm under two spellings counts as two suppliers, so the "won one award" share is an upper bound.
- Stated value is the amount in the award notice, in GBP. It is often the ceiling of a framework agreement, and the money paid can be lower. When several winners share one notice and one amount, we split the amount. We cap each award at the 99.9th percentile of the awards in the United Kingdom. 90% of the awards state an amount, GBP 2.26 billion in total.
- These numbers show how the awards spread across suppliers. They do not show why.
Snapshot 31 October 2026. Awards from November 2024 to October 2026. The numbers change when we add new awards.
The app shows the same counts for the other sectors in the United Kingdom and for each live country.
Read the United Kingdom data story →Sell to State holds Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices for the United Kingdom. Describe the professional services and consulting work you sell in plain English and get tender IDs, buyers, values and dates.
United Kingdom portals with professional services and consulting tenders
This is a directory of portals. The numbers above come from Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices only.
Contracts Finder
IT Services · Defense · NHS Healthcare · Professional Services · Infrastructure
Crown Commercial Service
Professional Services · Consulting · Framework Agreements · Financial Services
eTendersNI (Northern Ireland)
Construction · IT Systems · Healthcare · Professional Services · Education
Public Contracts Scotland
IT Services · Construction · Healthcare · Professional Services · Social Care
Homes England Procurement
construction · Public housing · Housing · civil-works · Infrastructure
National Highways — Procurement
construction · engineering · maintenance · technology · professional-services
Transport for London — Procurement
construction · engineering · IT · maintenance · professional-services
Sell2Wales Welsh Procurement Portal
Construction · IT Services · Healthcare · Professional Services · Social Services
Other United Kingdom tender sectors
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Questions
- Who won the most professional services and consulting contracts in the United Kingdom?
- REED SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED won the most professional services and consulting awards in the United Kingdom from November 2024 to October 2026: 16 of 526 (3%). WSP UK Limited won 6 and Mott MacDonald won 6. The top 10 is on this page.
- How many professional services and consulting suppliers in the United Kingdom win only one contract?
- 78% of the 376 suppliers with a professional services and consulting award in the window won exactly one. Together they hold 56% of the awards. We count suppliers by normalised name, so this share is an upper bound.
- How concentrated are professional services and consulting contracts in the United Kingdom?
- The top 1% of suppliers (3) won 5% of the awards, and the top 10% won 27%. The Gini coefficient of awards across suppliers is 0.24: 0 means that each supplier wins the same number, and 1 means that one supplier wins all. By stated value, the top 1% hold 79%.
- Which buyers sign the most professional services and consulting contracts in the United Kingdom?
- Innovate UK signed the most: 35 awards (7%). The ten largest buyers signed 27% of the 526 awards from November 2024 to October 2026.
- Where are professional services and consulting tenders published in the United Kingdom?
- Sell to State lists 8 portals that publish professional services and consulting tenders in the United Kingdom, for example Contracts Finder, Crown Commercial Service, eTendersNI (Northern Ireland). We hold Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices for the United Kingdom.
- Can foreign vendors bid on United Kingdom professional services and consulting contracts?
- Eligibility depends on each tender's rules and the procurement law of the United Kingdom. Many professional services and consulting contracts are open to international bidders, sometimes through a local partner or a registration. Always check the notice itself; Sell to State links the source listing so you can verify it.
- How does Sell to State help with United Kingdom professional services and consulting procurement?
- Sell to State collects Find a Tender, Contracts Finder and Public Contracts Scotland award notices for the United Kingdom on a regular schedule. Every record shows its publication date.
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