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Ministry of Justice

Ministry of Justice 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

£17.1bn

Total spend

1,904

Contract awards

983

Unique suppliers

£9.2M

Avg contract

According to ENKII, Ministry of Justice has awarded 1,904 contracts worth £17.1bn to 983 suppliers between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, at an average contract value of £9.2M, with the top five suppliers holding 32% of contract value.

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to Ministry of Justice

Top-five suppliers hold 32% of contract value — a moderately competitive market.

SupplierAwardsTotal value
BFS GROUP LIMITED2£1.7bn
LTE Group Further Education Corporation, trading as Novus1£1.5bn
Alexander Mann Solutions1£1.4bn
LTE Group (Trading as Novus)20£670.9M
PeoplePlus Group Ltd33£599.8M
Galliford Try Construction Ltd12£541.9M
G4S Care and Justice Services (UK) Limited10£504.2M
Serco Ltd1£447.0M
EBSCO International2£435.8M
EDF Energy Customers Limited2£431.3M
thebigword Group Holdings Limited2£417.4M
Trustmarque Solutions Limited2£398.2M
Sodexo Limited1£392.0M
Mitie Care & Custody1£329.0M
Milton Keynes College8£320.1M
Galliford Try Construction Limited5£318.0M
Turner and Townsend Project Management Ltd1£310.0M
WATES CONSTRUCTION LIMITED16£256.7M
Kier Construction Ltd10£246.1M
Kier Construction Limited1£245.7M

Procurement categories

What Ministry of Justice buys

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

Education and training services

80
715 awards£253.3M

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72
206 awards£1.4bn

Administration, defence and social security services

75
187 awards£5.4bn

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

79
115 awards£2.4bn

Construction work

45
106 awards£2.6bn

Research and development services and related consultancy services

73
57 awards£25.6M

Industrial machinery

42
50 awards£12.4M

Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

71
40 awards£711.7M

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

30
39 awards£279.0M

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

39
37 awards£44.6M

Machinery for mining, quarrying, construction equipment

43
36 awards£5.4M

Software package and information systems

48
32 awards£97.0M

Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment

35
29 awards£28.6M

Postal and telecommunications services

64
26 awards£580.7M

Financial and insurance services

66
26 awards£314.9M

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

44
25 awards£18.5M

Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment

32
24 awards£304.6M

Health and social work services

85
21 awards£53.6M

Other community, social and personal services

98
21 awards£118.4M

Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy

09
20 awards£675.3M

Printed matter and related products

22
11 awards£449.0M

Real estate services

70
11 awards£237.5M

Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products

03
7 awards£155K

Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories

18
6 awards£41.3M

Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services

55
6 awards£172.6M

Recreational, cultural and sporting services

92
6 awards£1.6M

Leather and textile fabrics, plastic and rubber materials

19
5 awards£43.5M

Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting

31
5 awards£80.7M

Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation

34
5 awards£34.9M

Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories

37
5 awards£8.4M

Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

33
4 awards£6.1M

Repair and maintenance services

50
4 awards£3.3M

Public utilities

65
4 awards£2.9M

Food, beverages, tobacco and related products

15
3 awards£1.7bn

Agricultural machinery

16
3 awards£213K

Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services

63
3 awards£2.8M

Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

90
2 awards£124K

Mining, basic metals and related products

14
1 award£5.0M

Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

38
1 award£2.6M

Transport services (excl. Waste transport)

60
1 award£553K

Recent contracts

Latest Ministry of Justice contracts awarded

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

Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for a Music Programme for Prisoners at HMP Wormwood Scrubs

Finding Rhythms · 2026-11-06

£70K

Engineering Capital Equipment - Tube Bender - HMP Littlehey

Amob Machinery Limited · 2026-11-04

£10K

Award of a call off contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for CSCS Card provision for prisoners at HMP Winchester

Green Skills Partnership · 2026-11-02

£23K

UK7 - Contract Details Notice – WM - Contract - Ingeus GOALS - 26/27

INGEUS UK LIMITED · 2026-11-02

£50K

Plastics Equipment - Chiller Units - HMP Ranby

Aqua Cooling Ltd · 2026-10-30

£80K

con_26721 - Finances, Benefits and Debt (FBD) in West Midlands Custody

Ingeus UK Ltd · 2026-10-29

£45K

Award of a Call off Contract under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Release Preparation for Prisoners at HMP Bristol

The Restore Trust · 2026-10-29

£10K

Award of a Call off Contract under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Traffic Management for Prisoners at HMP Moorland

Daruma Group Limited · 2026-10-28

£18K

Award of a call off contract under the Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for the provision of Pizzeria and Life Skills for prisoners at HMP Wandsworth

WK Foundation · 2026-10-28

£30K

Call off Contract Under Prison Education Dynamic Purchasing System for Site Safety Courses for Prisoners at HMP Bedford

Through The Gate Solutions UK Ltd · 2026-10-27

£34K

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Most of it is in education & training, public administration and IT services.

6

tenders open now

Inviting bids today

474

contracts ending in 12 months

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63

planned procurements

Work this buyer has said it intends to tender

22

frameworks running

Routes to sell here without a full tender

4

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Market analysis

Bidding into Ministry of Justice — what to expect

Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.

36%

Awards to SMEs

32%

Top-5 supplier share

57%

Framework call-offs

598

Awards to social enterprises

Around 36% of Ministry of Justice’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises, and 598 have gone to voluntary, community or social enterprises. Around 57%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 Ministry of Justice

How much does Ministry of Justice spend on procurement?

Ministry of Justice awarded 1,904 contracts totalling £17.1bn between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, working with 983 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £9.2M.

Who are Ministry of Justice's top suppliers?

The largest suppliers to Ministry of Justice by total award value are BFS GROUP LIMITED, LTE Group Further Education Corporation, trading as Novus, Alexander Mann Solutions. The top five suppliers together hold 32% of contract value.

What does Ministry of Justice buy from suppliers?

Ministry of Justice's procurement is concentrated in education and training services, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, administration, defence and social security services, 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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