The Electoral Commission

How to win their contracts

Measured from The Electoral Commission's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 40 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 7 of their tenders.
• They publish about 1.2 tenders a month, measured over 7 months of history.
• Half of the tenders where they publish a value are estimated at £172.5k or less.
• Most of their buying falls in education and training services, research and development services and related consultancy services.