Their own payment-practices filing · gov.uk

How long does Building Design Partnership Limited take to pay its suppliers?

CRN 02207415 · Professional & technical services · 18 statutory reports on record · period to 31 Mar 2026

27days

their reported average time to pay suppliers, latest period

Faster than mostvs a 31-day median across 6,185 recent filers

Self-reported figure from their statutory filing. How this is compiled.

On the public register · Companies House

Company record

Status: Active
Type: Private Limited Company
Incorporated: 22 Dec 1987
Registered office: 11 DUCIE STREET, MANCHESTER, M1 2JB

1 outstanding charge — secured borrowing registered Accounts due 31 Dec 2026

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Terms vs reality

Stated terms: 14–60 days. Reported average: 27.

Stated terms14–60d

+13 days

Reported avg27d

At a glance

The key figures

14–60d

their stated terms

23%

invoices paid outside terms

±2d

steady pattern

Vs peers · latest reported averages

fasterslower

Faster than 61% of the 530 large companies reporting in professional & technical services.

The pattern

Holding steady

Average days to pay across their last 6 statutory reports.

terms 14d

H2 2023H1 2024H2 2024H1 2025H2 2025H1 2026

Where their supplier invoices land · latest period

within 30 days 77% 31–60 days 19% 61+ days 4%

The read · computed from their figures

Building Design Partnership Limited has filed 18 statutory payment periods (earliest H2 2017). Their latest report puts the average at 27 days against stated terms of 14–60 days.

The pattern is steady — their reported average moves within about ±2 days period to period.

In the latest period 23% of invoices were paid outside their agreed terms, and 4% landed 61+ days out.

What they tell their suppliers

6% of invoices in dispute

In their own words · from the filing

Standard payment terms

BDP's standard payment terms are 30 days. The standard payment terms for sub-consultants are 45 or 60 days and the standard payment terms for contract staff is 14 days.

Dispute resolution

BDP's business systems are designed to pay suppliers by their due date. If there is a dispute relating to the non-payment of supplier invoices, it should be raised with accounts payable who will investigate and resolve the dispute as soon as possible. If the dispute relates to the non-authorisation of supplier invoices it should be raised with the relevant BDP project director or contact that requested the supply and again this will be resolved as soon as possible.

Every statutory report on record

Most recent first.

Period	Avg days	Outside terms	61+ days	Filed
H1 2026	27	23%	4%	29 Apr 2026
H2 2025	26	20%	4%	28 Jan 2026
H1 2025	29	27%	3%	25 Jul 2025
H2 2024	28	16%	4%	24 Jan 2025
H1 2024	28	18%	4%	16 Jul 2024
H2 2023	28	16%	3%	18 Jan 2024
H1 2023	35	41%	8%	11 Aug 2023
H2 2022	28	27%	8%	16 Jan 2023
H1 2022	27	25%	7%	28 Jul 2022
H2 2021	25	28%	6%	21 Jan 2022
H1 2021	27	23%	5%	13 Jul 2021
H2 2020	31	29%	8%	25 Jan 2021
H1 2020	32	45%	8%	23 Jul 2020
H2 2019	31	30%	9%	21 Jan 2020
H1 2019	32	57%	10%	18 Jul 2019
H2 2018	36	45%	11%	28 Jan 2019
H1 2018	31	39%	8%	11 Jul 2018
H2 2017	26	39%	0%	26 Jan 2018

Working-capital effect

What a 27-day cycle ties up

Illustrative. On a hypothetical £12k/month account, at a 27-day vs a 14-day payment cycle.

≈ £10,500

of invoicing outstanding at any one time on a 27-day cycle — about £5,100 more than the same account would carry at 14-day terms.

Late Payment Act. The Late Payment of Commercial Debts Act lets a supplier charge statutory interest and fixed compensation on invoices paid past agreed terms. Work out what a late invoice is worth → Whether it applies depends on your contract — check with an adviser.

Quick answers

Are they getting slower or faster?

Their reported average is steady — within about ±2 days period to period, around 27 days.

What's their typical pay point?

Their latest reports average around day 27, moving within about ±2 days. Treat that as a historical reference point, not a promise for a new invoice.

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How UK payment reporting works

What is a Payment Practices Report?

UK companies and LLPs above a size threshold — broadly, two of: turnover over £54m, balance sheet over £27m, or more than 250 employees — must report twice a year, under the Reporting on Payment Practices and Performance Regulations 2017, how quickly they actually pay suppliers: the average time to pay, the share of invoices paid in 30 days or fewer, 31 to 60 days and 61 days or longer, and their standard payment terms. Those thresholds apply to financial years beginning on or after 6 April 2025; for earlier financial years they were £36m and £18m, with the same 250-employee test.

What does "paid outside agreed terms" mean?

The share of invoices paid later than the terms in the supplier contract. If terms are 30 days and an invoice is paid on day 45, it counts as paid outside terms, regardless of the headline average.

How often is this data updated?

Each report covers a six-month period and must be filed within 30 days of that period ending, so a company's record refreshes roughly twice a year. PaidLate re-reads the register as new reports are filed.

Is this official government data?

The underlying payment figures come from the company's own statutory filings on the gov.uk payment-practices service; company-status data comes from Companies House. PaidLate calculates trends, comparisons and summaries from those records. It does not use surveys or credit-agency scores.

How this is compiled. Built from official records only: Companies House and the gov.uk payment-practices service. The payment figures are self-reported — companies over the size threshold must file them by law and the board signs them off. No credit-agency data. The numbers are theirs; the plain-English read is ours. This is information compiled from public records under the Open Government Licence v3.0 — not a credit rating and not advice.

The 31-day comparison figure is the median across 6,185 companies with a current statutory report — every sector pooled, not an average of sector medians (how the figure is built).

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