The Monday Awards, Issue 3
Week to 16 October 2026
108 cyber contracts end in March 2027
108 UK public sector cyber contracts are due to end in March 2027, more than in any other month in the next year. Buyers tend to publish the new tender two to four months before the old contract ends, so the time to talk to these buyers is now.
The March peak
In the next twelve months, 108 cyber contracts with a known end date finish in March. The next busiest month has 49, and the other months average 37.
57 of them end on 31 March, the last day of the financial year. Buyers set contracts to match their budget year, so many end on the same day.
Buyers tend to publish the new tender two to four months before the old one ends. For a March end, that is between November and January. Before the tender is written, a buyer can still be told what to ask for.
The counts by month are free on tendercyber.com/renewals. Which contracts they are, who holds each one and when it ends are for subscribers in the Friday Brief.
The week in numbers
- 16 cyber contracts awarded this week, worth £32M in total
- 16 awards. 6 notices say whether the winner is an SME (a small or medium-sized business); 2 of those went to one.
What subscribers saw last Friday
Last Friday's Brief listed 21 open tenders and frameworks. 3 tenders are still open with a closing date, 1 closes this week, 7 have no published closing date, and 6 are frameworks you can join any time.
One of them in full: Managed IT and Cyber Security Service Provider - Pre-Qualification (Stage 1 of 2). Buyer: North East Autism Society. Type of work: Penetration testing. Value: £540K to £900K. Closes 30 October 2026.
It also listed 3 contracts ending by April, with the current supplier and end date.
Awards this week
SOC, detection and response
- Maple Networks won work from Barnet Council, £275K.
Penetration testing
- Network Surety, trading as Camwey, won work from Trinity House, £29.2K.
Governance, risk and audit
- Bridewell Consulting won work from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, £30M over 2 years.
- Deloitte won work from Social Security Scotland, £150K over 2 years.
Training and awareness
- Redflags. won work from City of London Corporation, £44.2K inc VAT.
OT, ICS and IoT security
- Five suppliers, including Mott MacDonald and TÜV SÜD, won a £20M framework from the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
Other cyber work: Trustmarque won work from Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group, £18K.
6 hardware and software purchases this week are on the site.
One more is cyber work inside a bigger IT contract, a route where a cyber firm could partner with the winner. It is on the website.
All 16 awards from this week are on tendercyber.com/browse.
Contract of the week
Maple Networks won a £275K contract from Barnet Council. Type of work: SOC, detection and response.
- Bids received: 3
- Winner is an SME: Yes
- Scored 60% quality, 40% price
What happens next: Subscribers can see when contracts like this end, and when the buyer is likely to go back to market.
Read the contract on TenderCyber
Contracts in the last four weeks
Get the Friday Brief
Every Friday: open cyber tenders, frameworks open to join, and contracts ending soon with the current supplier.
See last Friday's Brief · Founding price £49 a month for your first 12 months, then £79. Founding applications close on Friday 15 January 2027.
Want a taster for your patch? Email [email protected] with your type of work and the buyers you sell to, councils, NHS, police, central government, or a region, and we will send you three contracts in it that end in the next six months.
Sources: Find a Tender Service, Public Contracts Scotland and Contracts Finder, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Year-on-year comparisons use Find a Tender and Scotland only. How we decide what counts as cyber: tendercyber.com/how.