Birmingham City University: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·West Midlands·Birmingham
Official UK PPONPMDM-3781-JGCD
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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.
23 awarded tenders, 22 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.
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting7 procedures · 22%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet5 procedures · 16%45 Construction work3 procedures · 9%48 Software package and information systems3 procedures · 9%80 Education and training services3 procedures · 9%85 Health and social work services3 procedures · 9%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 6%51 Installation services (except software)2 procedures · 6%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 · 32 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 97% (31 notices)
- Framework 3% (1 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.
- Limited / restricted 38% (12 notices)
- Open 38% (12 notices)
- Route not published 13% (4 notices)
- Direct award 6% (2 notices)
- Selective 6% (2 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 4 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 32 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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| OHWorks Ltd | 2 | 8.7% | 2 | 2 | 14 Nov 2025 |
| Softcat Plc | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| SKI BOUND LIMITED | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 29 Jul 2026 |
| Beckman Coulter United Kingdom Limited | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 13 May 2026 |
| AMP Biomass Fuels Ltd | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 29 Jan 2025 |
| AMETROS FACILITIES MANAGEMENT LIMITED | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 29 Jul 2026 |
| Exponential-E Limited | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 19 Nov 2025 |
| GBM Digital Technologies Ltd (Trading as Sync) | 1 | 4.3% | 1 | 1 | 27 Aug 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 17% of 23 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 22 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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| Occupational Health Services for University Students | OHWorks Ltd | — | — | £4,100,000 † |
| IT242 - Advanced Threat Protection | Softcat Plc | — | — | £3,523,892 † |
| PS120 Occupational Health Services for Students | OHWorks Ltd | — | — | £2,314,000 † |
| IT197 - Unified Communications Solution | Exponential-E Limited | — | — | £1,395,607 † |
| IT220 - Apple and Related Goods and Services | GBM Digital Technologies Ltd (Trading as Sync) | — | — | £1,250,000 † |
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 · 6 of 22 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| FM307 - University Locks Summer Clean | AMETROS FACILITIES MANAGEMENT LIMITED | 19 Jun 2027 | £68,889 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 64 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| IT217 - Safety ApplicationSecurity software package | Awarded / complete | 30 Nov 2025 | — |
| IT197 - Unified Communications SolutionTelecommunications services | Awarded / complete | 19 Nov 2025 | — |
| PS120 Occupational Health Services for StudentsHealth services | Awarded / complete | 14 Nov 2025 | — |
| BSL ServicesCommunity health services | Awarded / complete | 17 Sept 2025 | — |
| Occupational Health Services for University StudentsHospital and related services | Awarded / complete | 15 Aug 2025 | £7,500,000 |
| Inflatable Volleyball Dome ProvisionConstruction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus) | Open | 19 May 2025 | £210,000 |
| Strategic Planning and Media Buying - Full Agency ServiceAdvertising and marketing services | Open | 21 Feb 2025 | £9,000,000 |
| IT166 - Remote Software Access SolutionSoftware programming and consultancy services | Open | 3 Feb 2025 | £2,000,000 |
| FM223 Biomass FuelSolid fuels | Awarded / complete | 29 Jan 2025 | — |
| Strategic Planning and Media Buying - Full Agency ServiceAdvertising and marketing services | Planned | 6 Dec 2024 | £7,000,000 |
| Legal Service Framework AgreementBusiness services: law | Open | 28 Aug 2024 | £1,500,000 |
| For the provision of an Online Assessment Platform - Light Touch ProcedureTechnical and vocational secondary education services | Open | 21 Jun 2024 | £700,000 |
| FM163 - Student Accommodation Laundry ServicesLaundry-operation services | Open | 2 May 2024 | £261,812 |
| FM163 - Student Accommodation Laundry ServicesLaundry-operation services | Open | 26 Apr 2024 | — |
| FM148 - University Locks Summer CleanAccommodation cleaning services | Open | 8 Feb 2024 | £400,000 |
| FM163 - Uni Locks Laundry ServicesLaundry washing | Planned | 8 Feb 2024 | — |
| PS106 - BCU Brand Awareness Market EngagementAdvertising and marketing services | Planned | 19 Jan 2024 | — |
| Selection Questionnaire to establish a DPS for the Provision of Specialist Consultancy ServicesAdvertising consultancy services | Open | 24 Jul 2023 | £1,500,000 |
| Selection Questionnaire to establish a DPS for the Provision of Specialist Consultancy Services - Steamhouse 2023Advertising consultancy services | Open | 14 Jul 2023 | £1,500,000 |
| IT115 - Cisco Call ManagerLicense management software development services | Open | 10 May 2023 | £250,000 |
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 (£33m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 18 award records on 18 procedures (18 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 14 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 2 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- 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: 6 of 22 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 (21 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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