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Two way radios contracts

UK public sector · 77 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
77
Last 12 months
Median contract
£97k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£298m
72 of 77 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
59
Suppliers
42

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most two way radios contracts took 33% of them (25 of 77).
  • The median contract, £97k, is close to the median across it & software contracts (£110k).
  • Ministry of Defence awarded 5% of the two way radios contracts (4 of 77).

Who buys two way radios

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

  1. 1Ministry of Defence4 contracts
  2. 2Home Office3 contracts
  3. 3Maritime and Coastguard Agency3 contracts
  4. 4Nuclear Restoration Services3 contracts
  5. 5Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts
  6. 6Ministry of Justice2 contracts
  7. 7Network Rail Infrastructure Limited2 contracts
  8. 8West Yorkshire Combined Authority2 contracts
  9. 9Northumbria Police2 contracts
  10. 10Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)2 contracts

Top two way radios contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Radiocoms Systems Limited11 contracts
  2. 2Motorola Solutions4 contracts
  3. 3Avoira4 contracts
  4. 4Sepura3 contracts
  5. 5Critico3 contracts
  6. 6Axess International Limited3 contracts
  7. 7Purcell Radio Systems Limited3 contracts
  8. 8Airwave2 contracts
  9. 9PBE Europe Limited2 contracts
  10. 10CHELTON LIMITED2 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

16Q4 2025*33Q1 20269Q2 202619Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 71 · Wales 4 · Northern Ireland 1 · Scotland 1

North East10South East10South West10North West8Yorkshire and The Humber7London7East of England4Wales4East Midlands3West Midlands2Scotland1Northern Ireland1UK-wide or not stated10

What is included

Private and emergency-services radio communications: handheld and HF radios, radio network equipment and repeaters, and Airwave and ESN vehicle terminals, with their maintenance.

  • Handheld and two-way radio supply and maintenance
  • HF field radios
  • Coastguard radio equipment maintenance
  • GSM-R rail radio repeaters and element managers
  • Airwave radio and vehicle mobile data terminal support
  • Fire station end (alerting) equipment
  • Radio and voice logging recorders for control rooms, including Airwave talk group recording

What is not included

  • Fire station end alerting equipment driven by mobilising -> it.lob.emergency-command-and-control
  • On-call responder availability and alerting -> it.lob.emergency-services-duty-and-availability
  • Satellite phones -> it.tel.satellite-communications
  • Public mobile airtime and SIMs -> it.tel.mobile-voice-and-data
  • Control room command and control software -> it.lob.emergency-command-and-control
  • Rugged laptops and mobile data terminals -> it.hw.rugged-devices

Often bought by the same buyers