Top suppliers
Top suppliers to Kent Police
Top-five suppliers hold 75% of contract value — a concentrated market.
Procurement categories
What Kent Police buys
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.
4844307235327179Recent contracts
Latest Kent Police contracts awarded
The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.
Carbine Replacement (K)
FNH UK · 2026-10-13
£137K
Tech Refresh KEP Stage 2
COMPUTACENTER PLC · 2025-11-27
£1.4M
ML3 Tape Library & Backup Server replacement
Boxxe Limited · 2025-10-07
£79K
Tech Refresh KEP Stage 1
COMPUTACENTER PLC · 2025-09-24
£419K
Public Order Helmets (Kent Award)
MLA MICHAEL LUPTON ASSOCIATES · 2025-08-20
£18K
Dell Data Domain
Boxxe Limited · 2025-06-30
£499K
IBM i2/ Ibase Application KEP
BlueLight Commercial · 2025-03-30
£315K
SAP Success Factors
SAP (UK) Limited · 2025-02-13
£113K
Cisco Meraki
Softcat plc · 2025-02-04
£286K
Dell Hardware Procurement KEP
Boxxe · 2024-12-20
£1.3M
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Market analysis
Bidding into Kent Police — what to expect
Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.
27%
Awards to SMEs
75%
Top-5 supplier share
88%
Framework call-offs
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Awards to social enterprises
Around 27% of Kent Police’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises. Around 88%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 Kent Police
How much does Kent Police spend on procurement?
Kent Police awarded 27 contracts totalling £13.2M between 2023-10-17 and 2026-10-17, working with 17 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £488K.
Who are Kent Police's top suppliers?
The largest suppliers to Kent Police by total award value are HCL Communications Limited, COMPUTACENTER PLC, BT plc. The top five suppliers together hold 75% of contract value.
What does Kent Police buy from suppliers?
Kent Police's procurement is concentrated in software package and information systems, construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus), office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.
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Sources & methodology
How this profile is compiled
Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-10-17
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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