Bedford College: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Further education·Education·East of England·Bedford
Official UK PPONPBCW-2828-YLLW
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
14 awarded tenders, 15 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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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.
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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| Trinity Arts & Leisure Centre; Heating & Hot Water Upgrade Project | 5 Oct 2026 | 5d | £250,000 |
| Architectural Services | 30 Oct 2026 | 30d | £1,166,667 |
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
39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances3 procedures · 25%45 Construction work2 procedures · 17% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 17%71 Architectural, construction, engineering1 procedures · 8% · 1 open31 Electrical machinery1 procedures · 8%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 8%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 8%60 Transport services (except waste transport)1 procedures · 8%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 · 12 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% (12 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 50% (6 notices)
- Route not published 50% (6 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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 3 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 12 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 2 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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| Cozy Travel Ltd | 2 | 14.3% | 1 | 2 | 15 Apr 2025 |
| THERMOSERV LIMITED | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 7 Aug 2026 |
| INTER COUNTY SERVICE GROUP LTD | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 10 Jul 2026 |
| Infinity Secure Solutions Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 9 Jul 2026 |
| P Tuckwell Limited | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 3 | 4 Aug 2023 |
| T&B Contractors Limited | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 1 | 30 Dec 2022 |
| Biffa Waste Services Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 1 | 22 Jun 2021 |
| Oliver Landpower Limited | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 1 | 4 Aug 2023 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 29% of 14 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 15 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 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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| Provision of Bus Transport Services | Cozy Travel Ltd | — | — | £1,459,875 † |
| Tresham Kettering Campus Heating & Hot Water Upgrade Project | THERMOSERV LIMITED | 7 Aug 2026 | 1 mo | £259,046 |
| Provision of Security Systems Services | Infinity Secure Solutions Ltd | 9 Jul 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £54,255 ≈ £54k/yr |
| Provision of Window Cleaning Services | INTER COUNTY SERVICE GROUP LTD | 10 Jul 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £43,915 ≈ £44k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 1 of 16 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Provision of Window Cleaning Services | INTER COUNTY SERVICE GROUP LTD | 31 Jul 2027 | Not published |
Recent procedures
Latest 22 of 22 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Provision of Window Cleaning ServicesWindow-cleaning services | Awarded / complete | 4 Sept 2026 | £200,000 |
| Apprenticeship Enrolment, Delivery and Quality Management Platform – Request for Engagement (RFE)Educational software package | Planning | 2 Sept 2026 | £0 |
| Pre-Market Engagement – Provision of Internal Audit ServicesInternal audit services | Planning | 19 Aug 2026 | £0 |
| Pre-Market Engagement – Furniture Supply Solutions for Bedford CollegeInternal audit services | Planning | 12 Aug 2026 | £0 |
| Request for Engagement (RFE) – Catering & Kitchen Equipment QuotationsCatering equipment | Planning | 11 Aug 2026 | £8,000 |
| Pre-Market Engagement: Supply and Delivery of Furniture and Furnishings for the Business HubFurniture | Planning | 11 Aug 2026 | £9,000 |
| Pre-Market Engagement: Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Hot Water Boilers and Chilled/Ambient Water DispensersHeating equipment | Planning | 10 Aug 2026 | £0 |
| Tresham Kettering Campus Heating & Hot Water Upgrade ProjectElectrical installation work of heating and other electrical building-equipment | Awarded / complete | 7 Aug 2026 | £350,000 |
| Provision of Security Systems ServicesTest and evaluation of security equipment | Awarded / complete | 31 Jul 2026 | £200,000 |
| Provision of Bus Transport ServicesRoad transport services | Awarded / complete | 15 Apr 2025 | £1,300,000 |
| Cleaning Service ProvisionCleaning services | Awarded / complete | 23 Jul 2024 | — |
| Waste Service ProvisionRefuse and waste related services | Awarded / complete | 31 May 2024 | — |
| T-LEVEL AGRICULTURIAL MACHINERYAgricultural machinery | Awarded / complete | 4 Aug 2023 | — |
| Building Works at Chisholm House, CorbyBuilding construction work | Awarded / complete | 30 Dec 2022 | — |
| Provision of Bus Transport ServicesRoad transport services | Awarded / complete | 23 Aug 2022 | £900,000 |
| Structural & Civil Engineering Consultant at Corby CollegeCivil engineering consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 13 Jan 2022 | — |
| Mechanical & Electrical Consultant at Corby CollegeMechanical and electrical engineering services | Awarded / complete | 13 Jan 2022 | — |
| Lead Designer/Architect/Interior Design at Corby CollegeArchitectural design services | Awarded / complete | 15 Dec 2021 | — |
| Cleaning ServicesCleaning services | Awarded / complete | 6 Jul 2021 | — |
| Waste Management ServicesRefuse and waste related services | Awarded / complete | 22 Jun 2021 | — |
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 (£4.4m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 4 award records on 4 procedures (4 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 1 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: 1 of 16 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (2 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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