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3,214 frameworks, DPS & dynamic markets across 185 operators — every lot, mechanic and document a compliant purchase needs — plus 117,829 catalogue listings of what suppliers actually sell, searchable by capability.
Ask your AI assistant how to buy a thing across the UK public sector, where to sell it as a vendor, or how public money flows as a researcher — and get a complete, source-anchored, decision-grade answer. Route × reality × statute, in one place.
claude mcp add --transport http govbuy https://govbuy.run.cns.me/mcp
Works with any MCP client — Claude, Claude Code, and the rest. Free & unauthenticated.
Buyers, sellers and researchers ask in plain English; govbuy answers from the live corpus. Every figure and chart in this demo is computed from govbuy_public at build time — 60 questions on rotation, always current, never scripted. Hover to pause · click a chip to jump.
govbuy_public as of 2026-10-303,214 frameworks, DPS & dynamic markets across 185 operators — every lot, mechanic and document a compliant purchase needs — plus 117,829 catalogue listings of what suppliers actually sell, searchable by capability.
741,176 real tender awards joined on Companies House CRN: who actually wins the work, what buyers really pay, what's live, what's coming (1,917 planned procurements still ahead) and what's expiring.
The Procurement Act 2023 mechanics — standstill, competitive flexible procedure, Schedule 5 grounds, a two-limb exclusion gate (live Companies House + the s.62 debarment register) — so a route isn't just available but defensible.
Every figure below is live from govbuy_public as of 2026-10-30 — the same data your assistant reasons over.
Method, plainly: figures are over award records (one per award×supplier line, 741,176 of them across 57,952 appointed-supplier edges) from the fused UK-Tenders corpus. Framework-ceiling outliers (>£100m) are removed so medians aren't distorted; the price explorer uses awards ≥£1,000. Totals are sums over award records and are not de-duplicated across multi-supplier awards, so they read as gross awarded value, not net spend. Reseller £ come from a curated reseller-graph join across every CPV a firm operates in. Dirty upstream dates are bounded by each chart's window. Counts of instrument/service are exact. Nothing here is hand-entered — re-run scripts/build-site.mjs to reproduce.
The conventional wisdom is that frameworks save money. At the median they mostly don't — open tender captures the mega-projects, so its median sits higher in most sectors. The revealing exception is IT, where the call-off median runs above open: a real convenience premium on the routine middle of the market.
Awarded spend by channel. Open tender dominates by value (the big programmes); framework & DPS call-offs are the high-volume routine layer.
Thin-primes & VARs that carry other firms onto frameworks — the public buyer often never contracts who does the work.
Attributable call-off spend per framework (CRN-joined from real awards). Sort by spend, awards or supplier breadth.
| # | Framework | Call-off £ ▾ | Awards | Suppliers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | RM6100 | £1.0bn | 182 | 63 | |
| 2 | Construction Works and Associated Services (RM6088) | £806m | 71 | 29 | |
| 3 | Technology Products & Associated Services 2 (RM6098) | £710m | 579 | 71 | |
| 4 | Technology Products & Associated Services (RM6068) | £627m | 767 | 49 | |
| 5 | Media Services (RM6123) | £623m | 31 | 9 | |
| 6 | Supply of Energy and Ancillary Services (RM6011) | £425m | 16 | 4 | |
| 7 | RM1056 | £394m | 20 | 6 | |
| 8 | Workforce Solutions (RM6288) | £373m | 22 | 2 | |
| 9 | RM3804 | £368m | 76 | 36 | |
| 10 | Research & Insights (RM6126) | £329m | 583 | 128 | |
| 11 | Digital Specialists and Programmes (RM6263) | £327m | 35 | 18 | |
| 12 | G-Cloud 14 (RM1557.13) | £283m | 676 | 313 |
6,177 IT awards (CPV 72, 48, 30) across 898 buyers. The busiest five suppliers took 973 of them, or 15.8%. Only 4.8% went through open tender. The median award is £144k. 1,912 of these contracts end within 12 months and 1,288 within six. Counted by award, not £, because notice £ is mostly framework ceilings. Supplier names are merged across spellings and CRNs, so shares are indicative. Ask research({concentration:true}) for the same numbers.
Every bar is real contract-end value. For buyers: re-procurement deadlines. For sellers: displacement windows.
Per-listing descriptions across every public UK buying catalogue, searchable by capability — token-free re-crawled.
Every distinct buyer is typed deterministically from its own name + the open gov.uk organisations register — no fuzzy cross-entity matching, so nothing's mislabelled. A further £684bn sits in genuinely ambiguous names (shown as unclassified in the data, omitted here). Supplier-side, the same open feeds add SME / region / sector, corporate-group ownership and modern-slavery flags — all on supplier().
A sample of what people actually ask — across buyer, seller and researcher. Every answer is genuine claude -p output, source-anchored, with the URLs to verify.
I'm a council. I need to host a containerised web app for ~£80k/year. Just tell me how to buy it.
buy → G-Cloud 14 call-off, a ranked shortlist with real delivery records, the ~£184k IT median, alternative routes, and the PA2023 steps — one brief.
A fire service needs drone thermal-imaging kit fast and compliantly — is a direct award allowed?
YPO Drones DPS 1148 — further competition only, no direct award; the Schedule 5 urgency route explained, with the Feb-2029 DPS sunset flagged.
We're about to award to a supplier in liquidation — should we?
The exclusion gate stops you: a live Companies House check + the s.62 debarment register, both PA2023 limbs.
Which of the viable routes is best for a managed SOC — and why?
buy returns alternative routes ranking Cyber Security 3 DPS vs TS4 vs Network Services 3 on speed × depth × runway × real price.
I've built an AI triage tool but I'm on no framework. How do I get in front of the NHS this quarter?
Get admitted to an AI dynamic market (RM6200 / HealthTrust) — continuous joining; plus where NHS commissioners actually shop.
Find me an incumbent on a big contract that's expiring, and how to compete.
sell surfaces the displacement window — incumbents whose contracts are ending, value, end date, the route to re-bid.
I rent out goats that clear invasive scrub. How do I sell conservation grazing to the public sector?
An honest answer: no grazing framework exists; the money flows via grounds-maintenance primes — subcontract, and chase sub-threshold local notices.
Is the public sector overpaying by buying IT through framework call-offs instead of open competition?
In IT the median call-off (£184k) runs above open tender (£144k) — a ~28% convenience premium; every other sector inverts.
Map the 'thin-prime' economy — who fronts other firms onto public frameworks, and how much flows there?
£4.5bn of call-off spend traced to the reseller layer — Softcat, Phoenix, CDW, Bramble Hub…
Which 'live' tech frameworks are dead paper — appointed suppliers but no real spend?
It tells you what it can prove and what it can't — separating genuinely-idle frameworks from attribution gaps.
buyone opinionated brief: route + PA2023 mechanic + ranked shortlist (track record + exclusion) + price + alternative routes + compliance checklistsupplieris this firm safe? a two-limb live exclusion check + framework footprint + CRN-matched delivery record + an SME/sector/region lens + corporate-group rollup + a modern-slavery-statement flagframeworkone instrument: lots, appointed suppliers (incl. per-lot), observed-from-awards, coverage, and the PA2023-precise call-off pathdraftscaffolding to START the procurement: a real-dated timetable, a MEAT matrix skeleton, a spec outline, the compliance steps, a Schedule 5 / s.44 stubsellyour route to market: frameworks & live DPS you can join, ranked by REAL call-off spend, live + forward opportunities, incumbents to displace, and resellers who can carry you inwatcha re-runnable saved query for contract expiries or the forward pipeline — diff successive runs to spot what changedresearchthe power surface: read-only BigQuery SQL over the whole corpus, a spend & competition x-ray by CPV, or the schema / freshness & coveragegovbuy is a remote Model-Context-Protocol server at https://govbuy.run.cns.me/mcp — streamable HTTP, free, unauthenticated, no API key. Add the URL to any MCP-capable client and the seven verbs appear. Recipes (current as of 2026-10-30 — each links its official docs):
/plugin marketplace add chrisns/govbuy /plugin install govbuy@cns
claude mcp add --transport http govbuy https://govbuy.run.cns.me/mcp
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}Credibility is in the candour. govbuy never fabricates: every supplier, framework and £ comes from a source that literally states it, behind a verbatim-substring gate.
govbuy is one example of how cns.me turns a messy, high-stakes domain into something an AI can reason over precisely. Strategy, data, and the engineering to make it real.