Aberystwyth University: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 14 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
22 awarded tenders, 32 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Supply of Advanced Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Platform | 9 Nov 2026 | 19d | £156,717 |
| Supply of Advanced Chromatography and Molecular Characterisation Platform | 9 Nov 2026 | 19d | £198,568 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
38 Laboratory, optical and precision4 procedures · 40% · 2 open39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances3 procedures · 30%03 Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry2 procedures · 20%50 Repair and maintenance services2 procedures · 20%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 10%32 Radio, television, communication1 procedures · 10%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals1 procedures · 10%42 Industrial machinery1 procedures · 10%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 10 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract100%(10 notices)
10 of 10 notices are Contract (100%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Open70%(7 notices)
7 of 10 notices are Open (70%).Limited / restricted20%(2 notices)
2 of 10 notices are Limited / restricted (20%).Direct award10%(1 notices)
1 of 10 notices are Direct award (10%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 14 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 10 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| Appleton Woods Ltd | 1 | 4.5% | 1 | 3 | — |
| Haier Biomedical UK Ltd | 1 | 4.5% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Scientific Laboratory Supplies | 1 | 4.5% | 1 | 2 | — |
| George and Thomas | 1 | 4.5% | 1 | 1 | 12 Oct 2026 |
| The Resin Co | 1 | 4.5% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Wonderful Scientific Limited | 1 | 4.5% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Fisher Scientific Ltd | 1 | 4.5% | 1 | 1 | — |
| SIGMA-ALDRICH CO LTD | 1 | 4.5% | 1 | 1 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 5% of 22 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 32 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Purchase of NeoScan NXL Scanner and Workstation and accessories | Wonderful Scientific Limited | — | — | £380,000 † |
| Supply of Internal Audit Services to Aberystwyth University | RSM UK Risk Assurance Services LLP | 25 Jun 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £375,000 ≈ £125k/yr |
| Lot 10: Cell Sorter | Miltenyi Biotec Ltd | — | — | £290,546 † |
| Lot 12: Microscope | Appleton Woods Ltd | — | — | £268,749 † |
| George and Thomas | George and Thomas | 12 Oct 2026 | 3 mo | £67,245 |
Recent procedures
Latest 38 of 38 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| RIBA Stage 3 Design Services | Awarded / complete | 13 Oct 2026 | — |
| Purchase of NeoScan NXL Scanner and Workstation and accessoriesLaboratory benching | Awarded / complete | 7 Oct 2026 | — |
| Farms - Maintenance and Servicing of Robotic Milking SystemAgricultural | Open | 17 Sept 2026 | £240,000 |
| Farms - Maintenance and Servicing of Robotic Milking SystemAgricultural | Open | 11 Aug 2026 | £240,000 |
| Piazza Improvements | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2026 | — |
| Supply of Internal Audit Services to Aberystwyth UniversityInternal audit services | Awarded / complete | 29 Jun 2026 | £375,000 |
| Supply of Exhibition Display Cases to Old College, AberystwythDisplay units | Open | 16 Oct 2025 | £225,000 |
| Provision of Patent and Intellectual Property Related Services to Aberystwyth UniversityPatent and copyright consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 31 Oct 2024 | £480,000 |
| Scale Centrifugation System to Aberystwyth UniversityAnalytical or scientific software development services | Awarded / complete | 31 Oct 2024 | £275,000 |
| Supply of Vet Equipment to Aberystwyth UniversityAnalysis apparatus | Awarded / complete | 24 Oct 2024 | — |
| Large Plant PlatformPlants | Awarded / complete | 24 Oct 2024 | £200,000 |
| Provision of Fiduciary Management services to Aberystwyth University Pension SchemePension fund consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 24 Oct 2024 | £1,500,000 |
| EV Salary SacrificeHire of goods-transport vehicles with driver | Awarded / complete | 24 Oct 2024 | — |
| Electrical MaterialsElectrical materials | Awarded / complete | 19 Mar 2024 | £1,500,000 |
| Provision of Cleaning Services for Student Residences and Conference's at Aberystwyth UniversityAccommodation cleaning services | Awarded / complete | 18 Jan 2024 | £1,500,000 |
| Hire, Erection, Maintaining and Dismantling of ScaffoldingtScaffolding | Open | 11 Jan 2024 | £320,000 |
| Supply of Reactive Maintenance Materials to Aberystwyth UniversityBuilding materials | Awarded / complete | 9 Jan 2024 | £360 |
| Aberystwyth University - Supply of Gas OilFuels | Awarded / complete | 25 Oct 2023 | £700,000 |
| Aberystwyth University Framework - Supply of Farms Feed, Fertiliser, Crops & SundriesAgricultural | Awarded / complete | 13 Jul 2023 | £3,320,000 |
| Supply of Instrumented Treadmill SystemMedical equipments | Awarded / complete | 20 Feb 2023 | £285,000 |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 1 of 44 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.