Legal databases contracts
UK public sector · 130 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
- 130
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £45k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £11.8m
- 128 of 130 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 112
- Suppliers
- 32
61 legal databases 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 legal databases contracts took 59% of them (76 of 130).
- Contracts awarded per quarter fell 16% from the first half of the period to the second.
- The median contract, £45k, is 59% below the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
Who buys legal databases
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Valuation Office Agency3 contracts£90k
- 2Transport for London2 contracts£443k
- 3Department for Transport2 contracts£335k
- 4Bristol City Council2 contracts£294k
- 5H M REVENUE & CUSTOMS2 contracts£272k
- 6Financial Conduct Authority2 contracts£241k
- 7Durham County Council2 contracts£121k
- 8University of South Wales2 contracts£94k
- 9Financial Ombudsman Service Limited2 contracts£91k
- 10DERBY CITY COUNCIL2 contracts£88k
Top legal databases contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Thomson Reuters33 contracts£2.4m
- 2LexisNexis17 contracts£1.1m
- 3Gartner UK Limited14 contracts£2.3m
- 4Allium UK Holding Limited6 contracts£2.5m
- 5Haymarket Media Group6 contracts£283k
- 6Signis Limited6 contracts£196k
- 7Idox4 contracts£171k
- 8Croner-i4 contracts£169k
- 9RELX PLC3 contracts£501k
- 10Coram3 contracts£217k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Post Office Limited to Croner-i · Awarded 30 September 2026
Southampton City Council to Thomson Reuters · Awarded 29 September 2026
Highways England to Tracesmart Limited · Awarded 25 September 2026
Cardiff University to Thomson Reuters · Awarded 18 September 2026
Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency to Gartner UK Limited · Awarded 9 September 2026
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames to CIPD-HR Inform · Awarded 2 September 2026
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames to CIPD-HR Inform · Awarded 2 September 2026
Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner for Staffordshire to PNLD (legal entity PCC of West Yorkshire) · Awarded 25 August 2026
Folkestone & Hythe District Council to Haymarket Media Group · Awarded 24 August 2026
Folkestone & Hythe District Council to Thomson Reuters · Awarded 24 August 2026
Largest
Jisc to Allium UK Holding Limited · Awarded 30 April 2026
National Audit Office to Gartner UK Limited · Awarded 20 March 2026
London Borough of Harrow to Thomson Reuters · Awarded 7 April 2026
Transport for London to Thomson Reuters · Awarded 12 August 2026
Brighton & Hove City Council to Thomson Reuters · Awarded 31 March 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 116 · Wales 8 · Scotland 6
What is included
Subscriptions to online legal, tax, accountancy and employment research and guidance services, and licensed databases of case law, legislation and intellectual property decisions.
- Online legal research services and case law and legislation databases
- Tax and accountancy guidance subscriptions
- Employment law and HR guidance subscriptions
- Intellectual property decision databases
- Online social work procedures manuals, safeguarding partnership procedures and care law and practice guidance subscriptions
- Funding and grant search database subscriptions, for example GrantFinder and Open4Community
What is not included
- Legal matter management -> it.ent.legal-case-management
- HR systems -> it.ent.hr-payroll-system
- Academic citation and full-text databases -> it.data.academic-research-databases-and-e-resources
- Open-source intelligence platforms -> it.lob.police-intelligence-analysis
- Technology training libraries -> it.ent.online-technical-skills-training