BMet College: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Education·West Midlands·Birmingham
Official UK PPONPDMQ-8438-WVCJWebsitebmet.ac.uk ↗
Open now0no live noticesNotices, last 12 months5+400% vs prior 12 months (1)Published award value, 24m£211knet · on 1 of 1 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
80 Education and training services4 procedures · 67%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services1 procedures · 17%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedures · 17%How they buy
Last 24 months · 6 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Contract 100% (6 notices)
Procedure route
- Open 83% (5 notices)
- Selective 17% (1 notices)
Typical bids per lot1indicative · n=1Median of published bid counts per lot on contested contract notices · 100% of lots drew a single bid. Direct awards and framework / DPS lots are left out — vehicles draw a different crowd.
Notice amendments0Median amendments per notice · 1 of 6 notices amended.
Award vs estimate57.9% below estimateindicative · n=1Median (estimate − award) / estimate on single-supplier GBP pairs per lot, same VAT basis on both sides; vehicles excluded. Negative = awarded above estimate.
Who wins here
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PEARLTECH UK LIMITED | 1 | 33.3% | 1 | 1 | 2 Sept 2026 |
| Solo Service Group | 1 | 33.3% | 0 | 1 | 14 Jul 2022 |
| MERIDIAN CCTV LIMITED | 1 | 33.3% | 0 | 1 | 19 Jun 2023 |
3 awarded procedures across 3 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
Published award value (24m)£211kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 1 of 1 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%. Not spend and not a budget: notices sometimes republish a framework total or a mis-scaled figure — the largest rows are listed below so you can check.
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INVITATION TO TENDER FOR PROVISION OF LEARNER FIND | PEARLTECH UK LIMITED | 2 Sept 2026 | 3 yrs | £210,770 ≈ £70k/yr |
Recent procedures
Latest 8 of 8 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| INVITATION TO TENDER FOR PROVISION OF LEARNER FINDEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 2 Sept 2026 | £500,000 |
| Innovation and Enterprise Support Education and training services | Open | 9 Jun 2026 | £120,000 |
| Rail Training Support ServicesEducation and training services | Open | 21 Apr 2026 | £660,000 |
| Financial Literacy TrainingEducation and training services | Open | 13 Mar 2026 | £24,000 |
| Birmingham Metropolitan College Tender for Catering ServiceCatering services | Open | 21 Oct 2025 | £5,400,000 |
| Birmingham Metroplitan College Tender for People Systems ProjectPersonnel and payroll services | Open | 19 Feb 2025 | £400,000 |
| Birmingham Metropolitan College Contract for CCTVClosed circuit television services | Awarded / complete | 19 Jun 2023 | — |
| Birmingham Metropolitan College Tender for Cleaning ServivesBuilding-cleaning services | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2022 | — |
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 (£6.4m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 1 award records on 1 procedures (1 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). Typical award uses single-supplier VAT-exclusive GBP values below £5bn, excludes framework/DPS ceilings and — as a heuristic for republished framework totals — any amount repeated three or more times inside this authority’s 24-month awards; 0 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts (per lot, contested notices only, PA 2023 final-stage tenders where published), deadline-to-award and amendments come from the nightly buyer analytics row (v8, award-identity grain). Evidence tiers: robust ≥5, moderate 3–4, indicative 1–2.
- Contract end dates: 1 of 3 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 (2 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PDMQ-8438-WVCJ