Academies for Character & Excellence: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·South West England·Totnes
Official UK PPONPYNM-4868-XBBN
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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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 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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
48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 33%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 33%03 Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry1 procedures · 17%15 Food, drink, tobacco1 procedures · 17%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 17%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services1 procedures · 17%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 · 6 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.
- Contract 100% (6 notices)
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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.
- Open 83% (5 notices)
- Route not published 17% (1 notices)
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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 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 5 decided tenders across all categories, 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 6 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 5 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| Savona Foodservice | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 2 | 15 Aug 2025 |
| Teaching Personnel | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 2 | 2 Sept 2025 |
| EDUCATED RECRUITMENT LIMITED | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 2 Sept 2025 |
| Somerset Education Alliance Ltd (Trading as Supply Education Alliance) | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 2 Sept 2025 |
| IPLICIT LIMITED | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 28 Apr 2026 |
| Dole Ltd T/AS Mark Murphy | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 15 Aug 2025 |
| I J Cannings & Son Ltd | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 8 Jul 2025 |
| Everest Recruitment and Services Ltd | 1 | 14.3% | 1 | 1 | 2 Sept 2025 |
7 awarded procedures across 12 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
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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| Lot 2 Frozen, Dry, Ambient and Dairy | Savona Foodservice | 15 Aug 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £1,260,000 ≈ £420k/yr |
| ACE - Provision of Integrated HR and Payroll System | Juniper Education Services Ltd | 7 May 2026 | 4 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £450,000 ≈ £113k/yr |
| Lot 1 Fresh Meat | Savona Foodservice | 15 Aug 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £380,000 ≈ £127k/yr |
| Lot 3 - Fresh Fruit and Vegetables | Dole Ltd T/AS Mark Murphy | 15 Aug 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £380,000 ≈ £127k/yr |
| Lot 3 All Schools | I J Cannings & Son Ltd | 8 Jul 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £250,000 ≈ £83k/yr |
Recent procedures
Latest 9 of 9 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| ACE - Provision of Integrated HR and Payroll SystemPayroll management services | Awarded / complete | 26 May 2026 | £450,000 |
| ACE - Provision of Financial Management SystemFinancial analysis and accounting software package | Awarded / complete | 17 May 2026 | £250,000 |
| Provision of Supply Agency ServicesSupply services of personnel including temporary staff | Awarded / complete | 17 May 2026 | £1,500,000 |
| Provision of Food SupplyAssorted dairy products | Awarded / complete | 4 Nov 2025 | £2,020,000 |
| Provision of Mechanical & Plant Servicing & RepairsRepair and maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2025 | £250,000 |
| Preliminary Market Engagement - Outsourced Meal prep and Transported In Catering ServiceCanteen and catering services | Planning | 18 Mar 2025 | — |
| Academies for Character Excellence Communications, Security & VolP PartnerAnti-virus software development services | Awarded / complete | 16 Jul 2024 | — |
| Academies for Character & Excellence Provision of Catering ServicesSchool catering services | Open | 29 Apr 2024 | £700,000 |
| Academies for Character and Excellence - IT Managed ServiceComputer expansion services | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2024 | — |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£5.2m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 10 award records on 5 procedures (6 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier, 2 with no supplier published). 0 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 8 of 10 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (3 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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