Procurement Profile: Home Office

The UK Home Office is responsible "for immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime, fire, counter-terrorism and police".

To help fulfil its responsibilities, the Home Office has awarded over £18 billion in contract awards to private suppliers since January 2016. This makes the Home Office the 3rd largest public authority by total contract award value.

Using our market intelligence platform, this buyer profile digs into these contract awards - and much more - to reveal rich insights into the Home Office's procurement behaviour. With this hard data, you'll be in prime position to win more business from this procurement giant.

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• Frameworks

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The Home Office has spent nearly £10 billion with private suppliers since January 2016, covering over 43,000 transactions.

As the above graph indicates, annual spend with suppliers has largely flatlined since 2016, ranging from £1.3bn in 2016 to £1.9bn in 2018.

From January 2016 to November 2021, the Home Office's largest suppliers by total spend were:

From January 2016 - November 2021, the Home Office has awarded at least 2,090 contracts to over 870 suppliers, valued at approximately £18.1bn.

As the above analysis shows, a substantial chunk of this value came in 2019 after numerous 'Asylum Accommodation and Support Services' contracts were awarded across the country. The largest of which - Asylum Accommodation and Support Services Contract South, awarded to Mears Ltd, Clearsprings Ready Homes Ltd, Serco Ltd and others - was valued at £3.25bn.

The annual volume of Home Office contract awards is fairly inconsistent, nor has it strongly correlated with annual contract value.

Over this period, the Home Office's largest contract awards - excluding AASS related contracts - included:

Tussell's platform identified 179 likely-to-be-renewed contracts * - with a total award value of £2.38bn - that are due to expire from 2023 - 2025.

The spike in upcoming renewal value comes from the expiration of two large Emergency Services Network contracts with Everything Everywhere and Motorola Solutions UK.

Notably, 45 of these contracts - valued at £453 million - were call-offs from a framework. This means that upcoming opportunities to do business with the Home Office lie predominantly outside framework agreements: welcome news if you're not currently on frameworks utilised by the Home Office.

The largest of these contracts - that were not call-offs - include:

* "likely-to-be-renewed" is defined as 'services' and 'supplies' contracts

Since 2016, the Home Office has awarded contracts to at least 658 suppliers.*

The Home Office's top suppliers - by total contract award value - were:

The suppliers with whom the Home Office awards contracts most frequently includes Vision-Box Systems (28 total contract awards), Softcat PLC (23 total contract awards), Capgemini UK PLC (21 total contract awards) and Computacenter UK Ltd (15 total contract awards).

* This figure includes subsidiaries.

Below is a breakdown of the Home Office's IT and consultancy contract awards from 2016 - November 2021. This analysis was conducted using CPV codes, meaning the data may include some anomalous results.

IT and Software (CPV: 48000000, 72000000, 42960000)

Since 2016, the Home Office has awarded over approximately 1,100 IT and software related contract awards, at a value of £4.4bn.

As the above graph indicates, the total value of these contracts has remained relatively stable since 2016, peaking in 2019 alongside the aforementioned Emergency Services Network contracts.

The largest suppliers in this sector - by total contract award value - were Motorola Solutions UK Ltd (£707m), Everything Everywhere (£681m), Capgemini UK PLC (£220m), Fujitsu Services Ltd (£198m) and Sopra Steria Ltd (£170m).

The largest contracts in this period included:

Marketing, Recruitment, Consultancy (CPV: 79000000) *

Since 2016, the Home Office has awarded approximately 170 consultancy-related contracts, at a total value of £463m.

As the above analysis indicates, while the volume of consultancy-related contracts awarded has increased year-on-year this has not resulted in a corresponding rise in value. 

The largest suppliers in this sector - by total contract award value - include M&C Saatchi UK Ltd (£111m), Sopra Steria Ltd (£64.6m), Deloitte LLP (£60.1m), Mitie Ltd (£31m) and Teleperformance Ltd (£22.8m).

The largest contracts in this period included:

* To yield more consultancy-tailored data, the search behind this data did not include references to 'AASC', 'Escorting', 'ESN' or 'Immigration'

Of the 2,090 contracts awarded by the Home Office since 2016, 650 - or nearly 1/3rd - have been identified as call-offs from a framework.

Using Tussell's frameworks analytics, we can see the total value of these call-offs sat at approximately £1.71bn and spanned 69 frameworks.

By value of identified call-offs, the Home Office's most valuable frameworks include Technology Services 2 (£294m), G-Cloud 12 (£169m), Digital Outcomes & Specialists 4 (£161m), Digital Outcomes & Specialists 2 (£129m) and Facilities Management Marketplace (£91.4m).

By the total count of identified call-offs, the Home Office's most heavily utilised frameworks are Digital Outcomes & Specialists 2 (82 call-offs), G-Cloud 11 (59 call-offs), Technology Products 2 (57 call-offs), Technology Products & Associated Services (53 call-offs) and G-Cloud 9 (50 call-offs).

Across this period, the Home Office has operated 25 frameworks of their own, but only called-off 21 contracts from them at a value of £8.32m (with the National Framework Agreement for the Supply of Conducted Energy Devices being by and far the most utilised). This strongly indicates that the Home Office prefers calling-off contracts from externally created framework agreements, rather than harnessing their own.

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The Home Office procures billions of pounds worth of goods and services every year. With data-driven insights and analysis behind you, your business can do more business with this procurement leader.

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