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Laptops contracts

UK public sector · 440 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
440
Last 12 months
Median contract
£100k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£258m
411 of 438 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
235
Suppliers
89

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

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most laptops contracts took 36% of them (160 of 440).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 40% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £100k, is close to the median across it & software contracts (£110k).

Who buys laptops

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

  1. 1United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust20 contracts
  2. 2East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust12 contracts
  3. 3NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership12 contracts
  4. 4UK Shared Business Services (UK SBS)10 contracts
  5. 5Cumberland Council8 contracts
  6. 6Salford City Council7 contracts
  7. 7University of the West of England Higher Education Corporation7 contracts
  8. 8British Transport Police6 contracts
  9. 9Met Office6 contracts
  10. 10Bath Spa University6 contracts

Top laptops contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Dell Technologies57 contracts
  2. 2XMA Limited33 contracts
  3. 3Specialist Computer Centres (SCC)27 contracts
  4. 4Insight25 contracts
  5. 5CDW20 contracts
  6. 6Computacenter20 contracts
  7. 7Probrand Limited16 contracts
  8. 8Stone Group15 contracts
  9. 9Academia14 contracts
  10. 10Ballicom12 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

89Q4 2025*160Q1 202695Q2 202696Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 385 · Wales 29 · Scotland 23 · Northern Ireland 3

South West52North West45East of England41London38South East35Yorkshire and The Humber32East Midlands31Wales29North East24Scotland22West Midlands11Northern Ireland4UK-wide or not stated76

What is included

Supply of end-user computing devices for staff, students or pupils: laptops, desktop PCs, all-in-ones, thin and zero clients, tablets, and the monitors, docks, headsets and other peripherals bought with them. Covers one-off purchases, refresh programmes, framework call-offs and delivery or desk-side installation.

  • Laptops and notebooks (Windows, Apple Mac, Chromebook)
  • Desktop PCs, all-in-ones and mini PCs
  • Thin and zero clients
  • Tablets (iPad, Galaxy Tab, Surface) bought with the computing estate
  • Monitors, docking stations, headsets, webcams and other peripherals
  • Laptop spare parts and upgrade components (screens, batteries, memory, SSDs)
  • End-user device refresh programmes and aggregated device buys
  • Delivery, imaging and physical installation of the devices

What is not included

  • Rugged laptops and in-vehicle mobile data terminals (it.hw.rugged-devices)
  • Mobile phone handsets and operator-supplied devices (it.hw.mobile-phones)
  • Servers and storage (it.hw.servers-and-storage)
  • Printers, MFDs and document scanners (it.hw.printers-and-mfds)
  • Laptop loan and charging lockers (it.hw.laptop-lockers)
  • Disabled Students' Allowance assistive technology packages (it.hw.assistive-technology-equipment)
  • Break/fix maintenance of a mixed hardware estate (it.hw.hardware-maintenance)
  • Device management (MDM) or endpoint software bought on its own (another family: software)
  • Meeting room displays and AV (another family: audio-visual)

Often bought by the same buyers