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Business intelligence contracts

UK public sector · 98 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
98
Last 12 months
Median contract
£100k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£32.7m
89 of 92 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
78
Suppliers
63

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most business intelligence contracts took 20% of them (20 of 98).
  • The median contract, £100k, is close to the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
  • United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust awarded 4% of the business intelligence contracts (4 of 98).

Who buys business intelligence

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust4 contracts
  2. 2Financial Conduct Authority4 contracts
  3. 3Highways England3 contracts
  4. 4Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs3 contracts
  5. 5Department for Work and Pensions2 contracts
  6. 6University of Southampton2 contracts
  7. 7Liverpool City Region Combined Authority2 contracts
  8. 8NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership2 contracts
  9. 9Crown Prosecution Service2 contracts
  10. 10Nuclear Restoration Services2 contracts

Top business intelligence contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Softcat7 contracts
  2. 2Cloud21 Limited4 contracts
  3. 3InterWorks Europe3 contracts
  4. 4Keystream Group3 contracts
  5. 5SAP UK Limited3 contracts
  6. 6CACI3 contracts
  7. 7La Fosse3 contracts
  8. 8IQVIA3 contracts
  9. 9TPXimpact2 contracts
  10. 10The Information Lab2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

32Q4 2025*27Q1 202620Q2 202619Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 88 · Scotland 6 · Wales 3 · Northern Ireland 1

London19Yorkshire and The Humber9East Midlands7South East7North West6South West6Scotland5East of England4West Midlands3North East2Wales2Northern Ireland1UK-wide or not stated27

What is included

BI tools and the report and dashboard work built on them. The buyer gets self-service reports, KPI dashboards and management information from its own data.

  • BI platform licences (Power BI, Qlik, Tableau, Cognos, SAP Analytics Cloud, Business Objects)
  • BI software support and maintenance
  • Dashboard and report development
  • BI consultancy and user training
  • Bespoke reporting tools that collect and report operational or performance data
  • Report builds for new operational systems (e.g. EPR reporting)

What is not included

  • NHS-specific analytics products such as hospital data warehouses, flow dashboards and coding analytics (it.data.healthcare-analytics-and-reporting)
  • Building the underlying data platform or warehouse (it.data.data-platforms-and-engineering)
  • Website and digital service analytics (it.data.web-analytics)
  • Statistical and data-preparation desktop software such as SPSS or Alteryx (it.data.statistical-and-analytical-software)
  • Analysis done for the buyer as a service (it.data.analytics-and-data-science-services)
  • Council hardship and vulnerability products (it.data.household-vulnerability-analytics)

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