Data Analytics Government Tenders in United Kingdom

Turning public sector data into something an organisation can act on

Analytics contracts fail more often on data than on analysis, and good tenders acknowledge it. The realistic first deliverable is an assessment of what data exists, who owns it, what condition it is in and what can legally be joined to what, and buyers increasingly phase the work so that a discovery stage is separately priced and the later stages can be stopped. A bid that proposes models and dashboards without addressing data quality and lineage is proposing the visible tenth of the work.

The legal framing is a procurement requirement, not a footnote. The roles of each party in processing personal data, the lawful basis for analysis, whether data can be linked across services, de-identification and the risk of re-identification at small geographies, and the governance approvals needed before a dataset moves are all specified. Where the supplier processes data in its own environment, location, access control and deletion at the end of the contract are contractual terms rather than assurances.

What the buyer ends up owning is the question that separates useful contracts from dependencies. Sound tenders require the code, the transformation logic, the model documentation and the trained model artefacts to be handed over and reusable, with the supplier prevented from reselling a derivative of the buyer's data. Where models will inform decisions about individuals, buyers now commonly require documented testing for bias across groups, an explanation of how a result was reached, and a defined human review point, and those requirements are scored rather than assumed.

This section describes how this category is bought generally, across the public buyers that publish it. The figures elsewhere on this page are measured for this market alone.

Who buys data analytics in United Kingdom?

GlobalGov holds 365 data analytics records from 72 distinct buying organisations in United Kingdom. The most frequent publishers are EPSRC (67 records); Epsrc (49 records); Other NPIF (32 records); Innovate UK (26 records); Innovate UK (20 records); BBSRC (11 records). Between them the 6 largest account for 56% of everything published, so buying here is concentrated in a few authorities.

What are data analytics contracts worth in United Kingdom?

108 of the 365 records publish a contract value. The median is $199,136 and the largest single published value is $540.4M. By size, 36 under $100k, 56 between $100k and $1M, 12 between $1M and $10M, 4 above $10M. The remaining 257 publish no value at all, so every figure here describes the priced subset only, and values are as stated by the buyer rather than as finally awarded.

How long do bidders get to respond to data analytics tenders in United Kingdom?

Across the 51 United Kingdom data analytics notices that publish both a publication date and a closing date, the median response window is 150 days. A quarter of them allowed 29 days or fewer and a quarter stayed open for more than 182. Short turnarounds are the exception rather than the rule here: only 3 (5.9%) closed within a fortnight of being published.

How often are data analytics tenders published in United Kingdom?

United Kingdom publishes about 2 notices a month in this category, 24 in the last twelve months. Over the last three years there were 69, spread across 92 separate months of activity since 1 February 2007. September is historically the busiest month. The most recent was published 4 September 2026.

How does United Kingdom compare with other data analytics markets?

Among the 5 countries where GlobalGov holds a comparable data analytics market, United Kingdom ranks 1st by number of records. No other country in the corpus publishes more of it. Within United Kingdom itself, data analytics is the 21st largest of the 39 procurement categories tracked here.

Where do the United Kingdom data analytics records on this page come from?

These 365 records are collected from 4 official sources: UKRI (296), Contracts Finder (37), Find a Tender (17), the Kenya PPRA (15). GlobalGov is an independent aggregator and is not affiliated with any of them; each record links back to the notice on its issuing portal. The set is rebuilt nightly, and the counts on this page were taken on 2026-10-01.

Open Data Analytics tenders in United Kingdom

Showing 10 of the 53 notices open in this category today. Openness uses the same definition as the United Kingdom market page: active, not marked awarded, cancelled, closed or expired, and either closing in the future or published within the last 90 days with no stated closing date.

Other procurement categories in United Kingdom

Data Analytics procurement in other markets