Crown Commercial Service

How to win their contracts

Measured from Crown Commercial Service's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 51 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 40 of their tenders.
• They publish about 2.7 tenders a month, measured over 68 months of history.
• Half of their 15 awarded contracts are worth £300m or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, financial and insurance services.
• Their most frequent suppliers are See Contracts Finder Notice for full supplier list (8), Withheld Section94 Supplier (5), CAP HPI LIMITED (3) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.