Business rates software contracts
UK public sector · 65 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
- 65
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £422k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £88.6m
- 63 of 64 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 56
- Suppliers
- 10
9 business rates software contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most business rates software contracts took 75% of them (49 of 65).
- The median contract, £422k, is 3.9 times the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
- Bassetlaw District Council awarded 5% of the business rates software contracts (3 of 65).
Who buys business rates software
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Bassetlaw District Council3 contracts£582k
- 2City of Doncaster Council3 contracts£561k
- 3The City of Edinburgh Council2 contracts£2.2m
- 4Rhondda Cynon Taf County Borough Council2 contracts£665k
- 5Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council2 contracts£352k
- 6Breckland Council2 contracts£100k
- 7Redditch Borough Council2 contracts£75k
- 8London Borough of Barnet1 contract£43.9m
- 9Burnley Borough Council1 contract£7.7m
- 10Scottish Government1 contract£4.5m
Top business rates software contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Civica17 contracts£12.4m
- 2NEC Software Solutions17 contracts£11.5m
- 3Govtech Solutions Ltd7 contracts£1.9m
- 4MRI Software5 contracts£3.3m
- 5Inform CPI3 contracts£127k
- 6Liberata UK Limited2 contracts£51.6m
- 7DigiStaff2 contracts£100k
- 8Capita1 contract£1.7m
- 9Ascendant Solutions Limited1 contract£135k
- 10WELLDATA LTD1 contract—
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
East Renfrewshire Council to supplier not published · Awarded 27 August 2026
Scottish Borders Council to supplier not published · Awarded 25 August 2026
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council to Civica · Awarded 24 August 2026
East Staffordshire Borough Council to MRI Software · Awarded 3 August 2026
Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council to Civica · Awarded 31 July 2026
Newcastle City Council to Inform CPI · Awarded 29 July 2026
Herefordshire Council to MRI Software · Awarded 23 July 2026
London Borough of Haringey to Govtech Solutions Ltd · Awarded 21 July 2026
Bassetlaw District Council to Civica · Awarded 9 July 2026
Bassetlaw District Council to Civica · Awarded 9 July 2026
Largest
London Borough of Barnet to Liberata UK Limited · Awarded 11 May 2026
Burnley Borough Council to Liberata UK Limited · Awarded 15 April 2026
Scottish Government to Civica · Awarded 7 October 2025
Westmorland and Furness Council to Civica · Awarded 12 November 2025
The City of Edinburgh Council to supplier not published · Awarded 24 December 2025
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 55 · Scotland 8 · Wales 2
What is included
Systems that administer local and devolved taxes and benefits: council tax, business rates, housing benefit and council tax support, visitor levies, and devolved tax collection and case management.
- Revenues and benefits billing system
- R&B managed service
- R&B application support (Northgate)
- R&B process automation
- R&B document and workflow management (Civica Digital360)
- Visitor levy and tourist tax registration, returns, collection and reporting
- Tax administration and case management platforms for devolved taxes, such as Scottish and Welsh land and landfill taxes
What is not included
- Arrears analytics -> it.lob.income-collection-analytics
- Corporate income management and cash receipting -> another family: enterprise software (finance)
- Corporate EDRMS -> another family: enterprise software (EDRMS)