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Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office

Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office is a UK public-sector contracting authority. This profile aggregates its public-record procurement — top suppliers, categories, recent awards, open tenders and expiring contracts.

Data period: 2023-11-08 to 2026-11-08Updated 2026-11-08

£6.9bn

Total spend

1,316

Contract awards

1,016

Unique suppliers

£5.9M

Avg contract

According to ENKII, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office has awarded 1,316 contracts worth £6.9bn to 1,016 suppliers between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, at an average contract value of £5.9M, with the top five suppliers holding 54% of contract value.

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off…

Top-five suppliers hold 54% of contract value — a concentrated market.

SupplierAwardsTotal value
MINIMAL RISK CONSULTANCY LIMITED1£839.1M
PALLADIUM INTERNATIONAL LIMITED8£722.8M
Orostream International Contracts Limited6£514.0M
DAI GLOBAL UK LTD10£258.1M
Palladium International Ltd5£195.7M
ADAM SMITH INTERNATIONAL LTD9£174.1M
Alexander Mann Solutions1£150.0M
ISS MEDICLEAN LIMITED1£137.0M
Boston Consulting Group UK LLP1£108.9M
NIRAS GROUP (UK) LTD4£100.9M
DAI Global (UK) Limited3£91.7M
Chemonics Group UK Limited2£71.3M
Boxxe Ltd1£67.1M
MOTT MACDONALD LIMITED3£52.2M
Tetra Tech International Development Limited2£52.0M
Siren Associates Limited1£46.4M
Cowater International3£44.4M
DT GLOBAL INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT UK LTD2£44.4M
INTEGRITY GLOBAL LTD4£42.9M
Mott MacDonald Ltd1£32.5M

Procurement categories

What Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off… buys

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.

Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

79
196 awards£1.5bn

Administration, defence and social security services

75
147 awards£2.1bn

Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation

34
142 awards£8.1M

Construction work

45
113 awards£573.1M

Financial and insurance services

66
80 awards£39.4M

Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

71
66 awards£74.0M

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72
60 awards£53.0M

Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products

39
54 awards£2.6M

Repair and maintenance services

50
52 awards£13.4M

Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services

55
44 awards£3.5M

Software package and information systems

48
37 awards£135.3M

Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

90
37 awards£8.3M

Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting

31
35 awards£1.8M

Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy

09
28 awards£7.2M

Postal and telecommunications services

64
27 awards£15.9M

Other community, social and personal services

98
25 awards£73.0M

Education and training services

80
24 awards£15.5M

Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment

35
21 awards£2.5M

Research and development services and related consultancy services

73
19 awards£17.8M

Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages

30
17 awards£8.0M

Industrial machinery

42
17 awards£2.5M

Transport services (excl. Waste transport)

60
14 awards£29.7M

Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment

32
11 awards£1.5M

Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)

44
10 awards£8.9M

Real estate services

70
8 awards£3.6M

Printed matter and related products

22
6 awards£1.3M

Installation services (except software)

51
5 awards£838K

Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services

63
5 awards£173K

Health and social work services

85
5 awards£6.3M

Mining, basic metals and related products

14
3 awards£161K

Chemical products

24
3 awards£199K

Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipment

43
2 awards£0

Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products

03
1 award£38K

Food, beverages, tobacco and related products

15
1 award£32K

Collected and purified water

41
1 award£41K

Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services

77
1 award£105K

Recent contracts

Latest Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off… contracts awarded

The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.

Event Production Services Framework Agreement

Identity Events Management Limited · 2026-10-29

UK-Nigeria Growth Programme

BDO LLP · 2026-10-29

£18.0M

Evaluation of the Violence Prevention Partnership

Verian Group UK Limited · 2026-10-22

£240K

Mobile Services British Embassy Helsinki

Elisa Oyj · 2026-10-21

£59K

ISF/13996/2026: Action to Combat Transnational Serious & Organised Crime Programme in Latin America (ACTS LatAm)

DAI Global (UK) Limited · 2026-10-20

£90.1M

Bloomberg News Subscription

Bloomberg L.P. · 2026-10-18

Repair Works for the British Embassy Rome

NUOVA EDILIZIA S.R.L.S. · 2026-10-18

£129K

Electrical Remedial Works British Embassy Pristina

3A Projekt SH.P.K. · 2026-10-18

£25K

Supply & Installation of Treated Fresh Air Unit (TFA) Systems at the British High Commission in New Delhi

AIRCON TECHNIQUE PRIVATE LIMITED · 2026-10-14

£176K

South Korea Agri-Tech Sector Scoping Report for the British Embassy Seoul

Intralink Korea Co., Ltd. · 2026-10-12

£20K

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What Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off… has coming up

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Most of it is in business services, public administration and financial & insurance.

10

tenders open now

Inviting bids today

237

contracts ending in 12 months

Likely to be re-tendered: see which, and who holds them

96

planned procurements

Work this buyer has said it intends to tender

29

frameworks running

Routes to sell here without a full tender

18

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Market analysis

Bidding into Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off… — what to expect

Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.

28%

Awards to SMEs

54%

Top-5 supplier share

29%

Framework call-offs

10

Awards to social enterprises

Around 28% of Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off…’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises, and 10 have gone to voluntary, community or social enterprises. Around 29%of awards are call-offs from framework agreements — getting onto the right framework matters as much as the bid itself here.

Frequently asked

Common questions about selling to Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off…

How much does Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off… spend on procurement?

Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off… awarded 1,316 contracts totalling £6.9bn between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, working with 1,016 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £5.9M.

Who are Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off…'s top suppliers?

The largest suppliers to Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off… by total award value are MINIMAL RISK CONSULTANCY LIMITED, PALLADIUM INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, Orostream International Contracts Limited. The top five suppliers together hold 54% of contract value.

What does Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off… buy from suppliers?

Foreign Commonwealth and Development Off…'s procurement is concentrated in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, administration, defence and social security services, transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.

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Sources & methodology

How this profile is compiled

Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-11-08

This profile aggregates public-record procurement data published by the UK Government under the Open Government Licence v3.0. ENKII fetches, deduplicates, and aggregates source records; we don't edit the underlying facts.

Source portals

  • · Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk)
  • · Contracts Finder
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Source records remain subject to Open Government Licence v3.0 attribution. ENKII doesn't warrant accuracy beyond the source portals' own publication.

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