Buckinghamshire New University: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·South East England·High Wycombe
Official UK PPONPZTZ-8956-MMQTWebsitebucks.ac.uk ↗
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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 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.
12 awarded tenders, 10 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 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 systems1 procedures · 11%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 procedures · 11%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 · 9 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% (9 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.
- Direct award 89% (8 notices)
- Selective 11% (1 notices)
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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 9 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| Ward Security Services Ltd | 4 | 33.3% | 0 | 4 | 26 Jun 2024 |
| Nexgen Facilities Services Limited | 3 | 25% | 1 | 3 | 6 Aug 2025 |
| KPMG | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 24 Mar 2026 |
| CIRCUIT LAUNDERETTE SERVICES LTD. | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 5 Sept 2025 |
| Blackboard International B.V. | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 4 Jun 2025 |
| Bidvest Noonan (UK) Limited | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 6 Aug 2025 |
| UNIT4 Business Software Limited | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 30 Jun 2026 |
| Advanced Secure Technologies Ltd | 1 | 8.3% | 1 | 1 | 13 Aug 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 58% of 12 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 10 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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| Unit4 Enterprise Resource Planning | UNIT4 Business Software Limited | 30 Jun 2026 | 5 yrs | £1,590,289 ≈ £318k/yr |
| Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment | Blackboard International B.V. | 4 Jun 2025 | 5.8 yrs | £1,164,100 ≈ £200k/yr |
| The Provision of External Audit Services | KPMG | 24 Mar 2026 | 6 mo · up to 1.7 yrs | £394,200 |
| Supply, Install and Maintenance of Laundry Equipment | CIRCUIT LAUNDERETTE SERVICES LTD. | 5 Sept 2025 | 5 yrs · up to 10 yrs | £333,333 ≈ £67k/yr |
| The Provision of Digital Certificates, Blockchain Paper and Associated Services | Advanced Secure Technologies Ltd | — | 3 yrs | £107,205 † ≈ £36k/yr |
Recent procedures
Latest 15 of 15 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Unit4 Enterprise Resource Planning | Awarded / complete | 26 Aug 2026 | — |
| The Provision of Digital Certificates, Blockchain Paper and Associated Services | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2026 | — |
| Architectural Services - RIBA Stages 3-6 | Awarded / complete | 7 Aug 2026 | — |
| Cleaning, Pest Control and Grounds Maintenance Contract | Awarded / complete | 5 Aug 2026 | — |
| The Provision of External Audit Services | Awarded / complete | 5 Aug 2026 | — |
| BNU-2512-346 Student Management System & Associated ServicesCustom software development services | Open | 12 May 2026 | £9,000,000 |
| Cleaning, Pest Control and Grounds Maintenance Contract | Awarded / complete | 24 Nov 2025 | — |
| Supply, Install & Maintenance of Laundry Equipment | Awarded / complete | 1 Oct 2025 | — |
| Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment | Awarded / complete | 26 Jun 2025 | — |
| The Provision of Security ServicesSecurity services | Awarded / complete | 26 Jun 2024 | — |
| The Provision of Cleaning ServicesCleaning services | Awarded / complete | 26 Jun 2024 | — |
| Facilities Management ServicesBuilding and facilities management services | Awarded / complete | 19 Jul 2023 | — |
| Facilities Management ServicesBuilding and facilities management services | Awarded / complete | 19 Jul 2022 | — |
| Facilities Management ServicesBuilding and facilities management services | Not published | 20 Jul 2023 | — |
| Facilities Management ServicesBuilding and facilities management services | Not published | 20 Jul 2023 | — |
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 (£9.0m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 6 award records on 6 procedures (5 to a single canonical supplier, 1 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: 6 of 13 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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