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Fontfore tracks 14,501 UK defence contracts worth £265bn across 312 public buyers — and every Monday morning sends you what changed: new awards, new tenders, and the contracts coming up for expiry. One plain list. Free.
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20 new awards published across UK defence buyers — 93 in the last 30 days.
Three of this week's expiries were never competitively tendered. If you can substitute any of them, open the conversation this quarter — incumbents rarely watch their own calendar.
The UK defence slice of an engine holding 11,859,104 public contract records from 40 countries and multilateral buyers. UK data refreshed daily.
£12.1bn of UK defence contracts expire in the next 18 months.
1,247 contracts are coming up for renewal or re-compete. 183 of them were direct awards — handed out without competition — and 401 expire within six months. An expiring contract is the only public, dated signal that a buyer must soon buy again.
Expiry is pipeline
Tenders tell you what's already in play. End dates tell you what's coming — months before a notice exists.
Direct awards are the softest doors
A contract that was never competed has an incumbent who has never had to defend it. A challenger with a case gets the first real opening.
We watch the calendar
Every published end date, direct-award flag and buyer contact, joined to the contract record — so the countdown runs in your favour.
| Supplier | Buyer | Value | Ends |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storm Aviation | Ministry of Defence · Project MACE | £4.3m | Nov 2026 |
| KPMG | Ministry of Defence · CSM Phase 2b | £8.1m | Dec 2026 |
| SATOS Media | Ministry of Defence · SC recruitment expos | £7.7m | Dec 2026 |
| Thermoteknix Systems | Defence Equipment and Support · thermal clip-on sights | £4.5m | Feb 2027 |
| Saab | Ministry of Defence · instrumented live training | £141.8m | Mar 2027 |
Published award values, including framework ceilings — not spend. 79.6% of tracked contracts carry a published end date so far; coverage grows daily. Counts are floors, not a census.
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Who ultimately owns Britain's defence supply chain?
£16.9bn — one pound in five we can resolve — is held by suppliers that are foreign-owned or foreign-registered.
Ownership snapshot 24 Sep 2026 · name-match confidence ≥ 0.85 only · floors, not a census.
| UK supplier | Published awards | Ultimate owner |
|---|---|---|
| Thales UK | £4.76bn | Thales France |
| Boeing Defence UK | £2.37bn | The Boeing Company US |
| General Dynamics UK | £2.09bn | General Dynamics US |
| Qioptiq #6 MoD supplier by direct value | £1.26bn | Teledyne US acquired Feb 2025 |
| Leonardo UK | £983m | Leonardo S.p.A. Italy |
| Fujitsu Services 96% of it one 2015 award | £588m | Fujitsu Japan |
| Ultra Electronics Royal Navy sonar | — | Advent's Cobham vehicle Luxembourg |
Resolved by joining contract records to GLEIF's legal-entity graph (3.4M entities, 138k parent links) and Companies House (5.9M companies, 15.7M ownership records). No other UK defence tracker carries this layer.
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Every contract, every buyer, competitor share at each buyer, the expiry radar for its market — and the KBR ownership chain. A live page, not a PDF, every number reproducible from a dated snapshot.
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Twelve million contracts
Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (UK, refreshed daily), plus TED, USAspending and eighteen more national and multilateral systems — 11.9M award records. UK defence is the first market we cover in depth.
The ownership layer
GLEIF's legal-entity graph (3.4M entities) joined to Companies House (5.9M companies, 15.7M ownership records) — so a supplier name resolves to who actually owns it.
Honest units
Figures are published award values, framework ceilings included — never called "spend". Every number on this page is dated and reproducible from a snapshot.
Coverage, stated
79.6% of tracked defence contracts carry a published end date today. Where data is missing we say so — we don't invent it.
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Every new award, tender and expiry across UK defence. Free, every Monday.