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Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited
Information technology consultancy activities
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Who leads it
Previous officers 16
- Antony William Smalley 2025-2025 View profile
- Adam James Alec Blomerley 2024-2026 View profile
- Nicholas Richard Godfrey 2021-2023 View profile
- Mark Andrew Hewitt 2020-2026 View profile
- Richard Alan Morgans 2019-2025 View profile
- Stephen Gregory Horrocks 2017-2023 View profile
- Zoe Lewis 2017-2024 View profile
- Ann Gaskell 2017-2021 View profile
- Andrew David Hartshorn 2014-2017 View profile
- Paul Andrew Heather 2011-2013 View profile
- Carol Janet Day 2010-2013 View profile
- Mark Edward Johnston 2003-2010 View profile
- Mark Peter Antony Thompson 1999-2022 View profile
- Peter John Rowlins 1994-2023 View profile
- Valerie Webb 2003 View profile
- Anthony Bernard St John Webb 2011 View profile
Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.
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Public contracts won
48 contracts · £381,576,550 totalFrom Contracts Finder and Find a Tender, the UK Government's public procurement notices, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Matched to this organisation by company number, charity number or exact name and postcode; every figure links to its source notice.
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Cyber Security Architecture Service
Cyber Security Architecture services providing technical security assurance, governance and cyber risk oversight across UKHSA's digital programmes, supporting secure design and delivery in line with the HMG Secure by Design and NCSC guidanc…
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EA Benefits Assurance & Business Case Support
EA requires support to review, validate and strengthen the benefits position for RSP. Support will include planned handover and knowledge transfer
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Cloud Infrastructure Management
For the provision of technology and digital consultancy services, transition and SIAM, end user services, infrastructure services, live service management and maintenance, asset management, application development and lifecycle management s…
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Homes England - Integrated Change Programme ICP (G-Cloud 14 Lot 3: Cloud Support)
Product Management Managed Service - Digital Marketplace\r \r Methods' Product Management Managed Service is a comprehensive, outcome-based capability able to support the management of hardware, software, or cloud-based products on behalf…
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EA Business Case Support
EA requires support to review and update the business cases for the RSP & EMP programmes, as well as support the communication of the benefits position for RSP and EMP. Support will include planned handover and knowledge transfer.
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Methods/DWP CIA & CAP
Upskilling and knowledge transfer of expertise on Change Management information
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HR Change Programme Controls and Transition Managed Service
Time-limited supplier-managed service to strengthen HR Change Programme controls, governance, reporting, RAID and dependency management, stakeholder engagement products and transition readiness through to 21/08/2026. The service will delive…
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AWARDED CONTRACT NOTICE: SMIP ICT Testing and Migration Services
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has awarded the contract for Smart Metering Implementation Programme (SMIP) ICT Enterprise Testing & Migration Services.
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UKHSA Provision of IT Service Management Function
Provision of IT Service Management Function
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DADI Delivery Support
Provision of outcomes-based delivery support for business case progression to FBC approvals for DOF (End July 2026) and DEI (End Sept 2026)
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HR Automation Planning Support
HR Automation Programme Phase 3 in Delivery. To develop a baselined integrated delivery plan for the HR Automation Programme. Previous knowledge transfer and managing a baselined schedule, supported excellent timely delivery of Phase 2. F…
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Portfolio and PD Co Ex Project and Programme Delivery Guidance and Support
Delivery of Su4s (Set up for Success) Defra Practical Guidance and Rollout to support solutions design / TOM and Design Thinking Approaches in delivery
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Aurora Workstream 7 Change Management support
Provide Change management as a capability to support Aurora workstream 7
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CRIME Product Enhancement Team and Application Management Support
A Product Enhancement Team and application management support for the HMCTS Common Platform
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Salesforce Health Check
Supplier will conduct a health check of the existing Salesforce environment
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Programme stabilisation and cross programme planning for 26/27
mmediate programme management and stabilisation activity to ensure management and delivery of the HR Change Programme as is, up to March 2026. Cross programme planning across the transformational change portfolio in Defra Group HR to ens…
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Centre of Expertise SharePoint UR Services
Conduct user research to understand customer* and business requirements for the Centre of Expertise (CoEx) support channels, to enable and support improvements in Project Delivery capability in Defra to enable Defra to achieve its outcomes.…
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Logistics Planning Tool Lessons Learned
To undertake an independent Lessons Learned exercise for the delivery of the Resourcing Incidents project, and produce a report which details all lessons learned and provides recommendations highlighting the successes of the project and are…
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Completion of Change CIA's (Synergy project)
Completion of all Change CIAs within scope by the end of March 2026
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Generative AI for customer contact - Live Trials
Building on the foundation phase, this project will introduce Generative AI agents to support two services through alpha and beta testing. It will assess their effectiveness of Generative AI against these use cases and build evidence to sup…
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EA Benefits Assurance & Business Case Support
EA requires support to review and update the business cases for the RSP, EMP, and PlanIT programmes, as well as validate and strengthen the benefits position for RSP. Support will include planned handover and knowledge transfer
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Change Directorate Business Design and Design Authority
Methods will support the establishment of a design authority, informed by a focused discovery and gap analysis, to enable coherent, organisation-wide design decisions built on strong cross-group partnership and buy-in.
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Combined Change Management -DEI & DOF
Provision of Change Management across DEI and DOF in the EA DADI Programme.
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Combined Benefits Management - SFM, DEI & DOF
Provision of Benefits Management across SFM, DEI and DOF from the EA DADI Programme, to effectively manage the cross-cutting Benefits Management Landscape.
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664_25 Consultancy Services
FOR A FULL BREAKDOWN ON THE AWARD BY LOT/SUB-LOT, PLEASE REFER TO THE MORE INFORMATION - ATTACHMENTS SECTION OF THIS NOTICE. Additionally, you may also wish to refer to the Framework on the ESPO website (see https://www.espo.org/consulta…
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Overarching DPEL for Portfolio Delivery
Methods to provide Defra Group with access to delivery skillsets and services as required to meet Defra delivery demands.
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Geospatial Change Management, Benefits Maturation, and Outline Business Case Development Service
Methods to mature the Geospatial Enabling Programme Benefits and Change Management throughout the Alpha phase, in addition to the development of the Outline Business Case (OBC) to ensure the project is successfully set up for OBC submission…
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EA - Portfolio Roadmap for Change Management
Working to FCRM's Asset Management Portfolio change road mapping exercise to provide communications and engagement support to secure senior buy in and commitment towards providing data inputs to support the project and it's tooling.
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Next Warning Service Lessons Learned
To undertake an independent Lessons Learned exercise for the delivery of the Next Warning Service project, and produce a report which details all lessons learned and provides recommendations highlighting the successes of the project and are…
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Strategic File Management Communication support Services
Obtaining expertise in business change management for transformational project support.
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Homes England - Product Management Service
The service will work within Agile, multi-disciplinary teams to develop and enhance products and services to meet customer needs.\r \r Procured via CCS GCloud.
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Strategic File Management: Change Management Services
Provision of change management, coalition building and resistance management to the SFM project through FBC and towards implementation stage.
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Water Regulator Reform Pathway
Review of approach for Water Regulator Reform, to provide an overall schedule/phasing document
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Digitising Operational Frameworks - Change Management for Functional Standards
Methods to support the DOF project in finalisation of Outline Business Case stage and development of benefits, as well as providing business change support and comms and engagement to ensure procurement and handover of data is aligned to …
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DADI: Digitising Existing Information- Change Management Support
Provision of support to the DEI project to the completion of its OBC stage, progressing procurement processes and supporting in finalising of the Outline Business case document, while providing benefits maturation within project space.
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HR Automation Phase 3 Benefits Support
HR Automation Programme Phase 3 currently in Development/Feasibility and due to move into early Delivery stage in September. To support preparation for development of an iterated Programme Business Case, support initial stakeholder engageme…
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European Union (EU) Delivery Programme
Methods have been asked to support the establishment and implementation of the EU Delivery programme.
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Aurora Transformation Programme Planning Services
The initial four-week planning phase will provide the Aurora Transformation Programme Management team with: • detailed, actionable plans that define project scope and deliverables, ensuring alignment with strategic goals for the nine w…
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Local Transport Data Collection Alpha/Beta
Contract award notice.
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MH 0095 - Project Management as a Service - AWARD
Midland Heart have an internal Projects Team and works within a mature and formalised project governance framework. There are a mixture of Agile and Waterfall projects and all projects are sponsored by Executive Directors. The team is com…
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Provision of Treasury Technology Delivery & Change Resource Service
HM Treasury is seeking a partner Supplier to provide a comprehensive resourced service to support its Treasury Business Solutions (TBS) team (part of the Corporate Centre Group) in the provision of Project Resources to support programme and…
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con_17915 T levels Service: Agile Development, Maintenance and Support
Agile Development Services and maintenance to support T Levels service
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UK SBS - DDaT22359 - Data Migration/Integration
***Please note this is an award notice, not a call for competition*** UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) had a requirement for the provision of Data Migration/Integration. This Call Off contract has been sourced via the RM1557.12 G-Cloud 1…
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UKRI-6099 UKRI Archives SOW Draft v2
UKRI-6099 UKRI Archives SOW Draft v2 extract.
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Salesforce Health Check
Supplier will conduct a health check of the existing Salesforce environment
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G Cloud 15
G-Cloud 15 (GC15) is the replacement for G-Cloud 14 (GC14), G-Cloud 14 Lot 4 (GC14.4) and Cloud Compute 2 (CC2). It is the largest framework of its kind in the public sector. G-Cloud spend for FY23/24 was £3.1bn and Cloud Compute was £0.5m.…
Framework -
Technology Services 4
This framework is for the provision of technology and digital consultancy services, transition and SIAM, end user services, infrastructure services, live service management and maintenance, asset management, application development and life…
Framework -
Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7
This framework enables public sector organisations to procure suppliers to deliver digital, data, and technology services in line with government policies, standards, and best practices. The scope for this framework contract supports delive…
Framework
About
- What it does
- Information technology consultancy activities; Management consultancy activities other than financial management
- Incorporated
- 26/03/1990
- Registered office
- London
- Previous names
- Methods Advisory Limited (until 02/05/2017)
Methods Consulting Limited (until 01/05/2014)
Ownership
Owned by (1) iOwned byIndividuals and companies registered as having significant control over this company, from the Companies House PSC (persons with significant control) register. People whose ownership could not be confirmed to one individual are not listed as confirmed owners.
- Methods Holdings Limited
75-100% shares, 75-100% voting · notified 2018-11-20
Group
- Methods Business and Digital Technology Limited
is controlled by Methods Holdings Limited
Evidence
active 75-100% shares, 75-100% voting · notified 2018-11-20 · source: Companies House PSC register - Methods Holdings Limited
is controlled by Peter John Rowlins
Evidence
ceased 50-75% shares, 50-75% voting · notified 2017-04-26, ceased 2022-04-13 · source: Companies House PSC register
Ultimately controlled by Peter John Rowlins.
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Ownership paths are calculated from Companies House persons-with-significant-control filings. Each step shows the filed nature of control and dates; a step marked "ceased" is historical, not current.
Financials
- Cash
- £55,117
- Employees
- 4.94
- Turnover
- Not reported (small or micro-entity accounts)
- Profit/loss
- £222,449
Figures from accounts filed at Companies House (iXBRL), period ending 2024-12-31. Where turnover is absent, small and micro-entity accounts are not required to report it, so it is not shown as zero.
Contracts awarded
1 contract · £600,000 totalFrom Contracts Finder and Find a Tender (Open Government Licence v3.0), where this organisation is recorded as the buyer. Suppliers are matched to a Governance Register company or charity page at confidence 0.7 or higher; below that they are shown by name only.
Top suppliers
- Methods Business and Digital Technology Ltd. · £600,000
Most recent
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.
6 directors on the board
- Gareth Thomas Jones Director · appointed 2025
- Denis Federico Director · appointed 2023
- Arnaud Benoit Flande Director · appointed 2022
- Antony John Williams Director · appointed 2026
- Pierre Francois Jean Bonhomme Director · appointed 2022
- Patricia Crossley-Smith Director · appointed 2019
Directors past 6 years
- Patricia Crossley-Smith Director · appointed 2019
First-time vs portfolio directors
First-time (1)
- Patricia Crossley-Smith Director · appointed 2019
Portfolio (5)
- Gareth Thomas Jones Director · appointed 2025
- Denis Federico Director · appointed 2023
- Arnaud Benoit Flande Director · appointed 2022
- Antony John Williams Director · appointed 2026
- Pierre Francois Jean Bonhomme Director · appointed 2022
Left in the last 12 months
- Antony William Smalley Director · appointed 2025 · resigned 2025
- Mark Andrew Hewitt Director · appointed 2020 · resigned 2026
- Adam James Alec Blomerley Director · appointed 2024 · resigned 2026
Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.
The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.
Sources
Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Company number
- 02485577
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private Limited Company
- Accounts next due
- 30/09/2027
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.
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