Contract Intelligence connects public sector tenders and awards with the organisations, suppliers, markets and decision-makers behind them.
Use it to understand market size, competitor activity, incumbent suppliers, buyer relationships, contract age and expiry, live opportunities and the audiences most relevant to your sales and marketing strategy.
Oscar Research combines public tender and contract award data with organisational, geographic, supplier and postholder information to create a more useful commercial view of the UK public sector market. Rather than looking at a notice in isolation, Contract Intelligence connects the contract to the buyer, supplier, market and people around it.
Analyse buyers, suppliers, award values, contract volumes and the structure of the market you are targeting.
Identify current and historical suppliers and compare activity by award volume, value and contract age or term.
Combine open opportunities with contract expiry, incumbent relationships and buyer context to support forward planning.
From notice to commercial context
The strongest commercial picture links the procurement event to the buyer, supplier, market and people around it.
Commercial use cases
The original Contract Intelligence proposition was built around six practical use cases. We have kept those use cases and made the language clearer and more outcome-led.
Compare suppliers by contract award activity, value and contract age or term to understand who is active and where.
Use open notices and award data to understand potential market value, supplier volume and buyer activity.
Build a forward view from live opportunities and forthcoming contract expiry over the timescale relevant to your sales cycle.
Translate market and contract insight into relevant sets of public bodies, suppliers and postholders for focused campaigns.
Use contract awards, supplier activity and market potential to add public sector context to acquisition and investment analysis.
Build transparency, insight and reporting around buyers, contracts, suppliers and public sector spending relationships.
Case study
The original case study has been retained, but restructured so the challenge, solution and outcome are easier to scan.
A large, well-established network and IT supplier wanted a clearer view of the overall public sector market, its own position, key competitors and future commercial opportunities. It also wanted to improve how contract intelligence fed into sales and marketing activity.
Oscar linked contracts, buyers and suppliers, then worked with the client to define the categories and keywords most relevant to its market. The resulting data was used to analyse overall market size, existing clients, key competitors and buyers. Public buyers were then grouped into those without current contracts, those with more than 18 months remaining and those with contracts expiring within the next 18 months. From that intelligence, Oscar created live API feeds for Sales and Business Development and relevant buyer and postholder data feeds for Marketing.
Greater market insight, new opportunities, improved client data, more efficient workflows, competitor tracking and more targeted marketing communications.
Continue the journey
Contract intelligence is strongest when it sits alongside current organisations, decision-makers, tenders and supplier context.
Explore Oscar's current public sector database hub by sector, function, seniority and geography.
Explore Databases →Monitor tender opportunities around the buyers, categories and markets relevant to your organisation.
Explore Tender Alerts →Generate a free snapshot of detected contract wins, spend relationships and market position.
Generate Your Snapshot →See how need, funding, market engagement, procurement, delivery and future demand connect in the wider buying cycle.
Explore the Buying Journey →Commission tailored feeds around buyers, suppliers, contracts, categories, postholders or opportunity criteria.
Explore Data Feeds →Create a free Public Sector Network supplier profile and access core supplier tools and alerts.
Register on PSN for Free →Tell us what you sell, the buyers you care about and the kind of opportunity or competitor insight you need. We can shape the data, analysis and feed around the use case.
Quick answers
It is the use of tender and contract award data together with buyer, supplier, organisation and decision-maker context to understand market activity and commercial opportunity.
Yes. Oscar's original Contract Intelligence proposition includes analysis of current and historical suppliers by contract award activity, value and contract age or term.
It can support opportunity planning by combining open opportunities with existing contracts, incumbents and forthcoming contract expiry over a defined timescale.
Yes. Oscar can build tailored data feeds around relevant buyers, suppliers, contracts, categories, postholders and opportunity criteria.