Cardiff Metropolitan University: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Education·Wales (Cymru)·Cardiff
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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.
88 awarded tenders, 89 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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
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 systems4 procedures · 6%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting3 procedures · 4%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 1%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 procedures · 1%80 Education and training services1 procedures · 1%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental1 procedures · 1%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 · 69 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.
Contract99%(68 notices)
68 of 69 notices are Contract (99%).Framework1%(1 notices)
1 of 69 notices are Framework (1%).
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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 award71%(49 notices)
49 of 69 notices are Direct award (71%).Limited / restricted16%(11 notices)
11 of 69 notices are Limited / restricted (16%).Route not published7%(5 notices)
5 of 69 notices are Route not published (7%).Open4%(3 notices)
3 of 69 notices are Open (4%).Selective1%(1 notices)
1 of 69 notices are Selective (1%).
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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 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 69 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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| Proquest LLC | 4 | 4.5% | 4 | 4 | — |
| Jisc | 4 | 4.5% | 4 | 4 | 6 Aug 2026 |
| Henky Wijaya | 3 | 3.4% | 3 | 3 | — |
| ENROLY LTD | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Gecko Labs ltd | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | — |
| THE COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY LTD | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | 17 Aug 2026 |
| EBSCO INTERNATIONAL INC. | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | — |
| LSEG | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 88 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 89 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| Premises Cleaning | Atlas FM Limited | 1 May 2026 | 5 yrs · up to 7 yrs | £8,632,202 ≈ £1.7m/yr |
| Finance System Upgrade and Cloud Migration | UNIT4 Business Software Limited | 26 Nov 2025 | 6 yrs | £865,000 ≈ £144k/yr |
| Venue Hire, Graduation Ceremonies | Wales Millennium Centre | — | — | £760,000 † |
| Adobe ETLA 2026-2029 | Jisc | — | 3 yrs | £700,000 ≈ £233k/yr |
| Kitchen refurbishment and associated works at Cyncoed | BECT BUILDING CONTRACTORS LIMITED | — | 1 mo | £214,000 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Published end dates only · 67 of 101 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Undergraduate Prospectus 2027 and 2028 Entry | Zenith Print and Packaging Limited | 1 Dec 2026 | £96,600 |
| Digital Verification Service | First Advantage Europe Limited | 31 Dec 2026 | £66,600 |
| Written Translation from English into Welsh | ATEBOL CYFYNGEDIG, Bilingual Cardiff - Cardiff Council, Bla Translation Ltd +3 | 28 Feb 2027 | £240,000 |
| Simultaneous Interpretation from English into Welsh | ATEBOL CYFYNGEDIG, Alaw Hughes, Bilingual Cardiff - Cardiff Council +3 | 28 Feb 2027 | £20,000 |
| Provision of Local Exhaust Ventilation (LEV) Plant Maintenance Services | Independent Air Quality Consultancy Services Ltd | 12 Mar 2027 | £57,700 |
| Consultancy Services | Professor Richard Tong | 30 Apr 2027 | £41,666 |
| Student engagement and event management platform | Gecko Labs ltd | 24 May 2027 | £66,000 |
| Residences Summer Deep Clean | HPS Services FM Ltd | 30 Jun 2027 | £57,000 |
| Doctoral Research Manager | Haplo Services | 31 Jul 2027 | £45,000 |
| Provision of Internal Audit Services | Uniac | 31 Jul 2027 | £97,750 |
Soonest 10 of 22 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 95 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| LSEG cloud-based platform | Awarded / complete | 5 Oct 2026 | — |
| Consultancy Services | Awarded / complete | 5 Oct 2026 | — |
| Washroom Equipment and Services | Awarded / complete | 5 Oct 2026 | — |
| ProQuest Central Database | Awarded / complete | 9 Sept 2026 | — |
| Commercial Growth & Sponsorship Partner | Awarded / complete | 28 Aug 2026 | — |
| Mansafe System | Awarded / complete | 21 Aug 2026 | — |
| Adobe ETLA 2026-2029 | Awarded / complete | 17 Aug 2026 | — |
| Copyright Licensing Agency | Awarded / complete | 17 Aug 2026 | — |
| Panopto EDU Platform | Awarded / complete | 17 Aug 2026 | — |
| Kitchen refurbishment and associated works at Cyncoed | Awarded / complete | 17 Aug 2026 | — |
| Provision of Internal Audit Services | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2026 | — |
| Doctoral Research Manager | Awarded / complete | 4 Aug 2026 | — |
| Premises CleaningCleaning services | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | £7,300,000 |
| Renewal of Student Record System | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | — |
| Law Trove ‘Complete Law Collection’ and ‘Criminology & Criminal Justice Collection’ | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | — |
| Solar Installation at D Block, Cyncoed Campus | Awarded / complete | 6 Jul 2026 | — |
| Residences Summer Deep Clean | Awarded / complete | 22 Jun 2026 | — |
| Glass Lift Replacement | Awarded / complete | 10 Jun 2026 | — |
| Campus Protection (Security) ServicesSecurity services | Planned | 1 Jun 2026 | £4,500,000 |
| Database specialising in consumer data and market intelligence | Awarded / complete | 26 May 2026 | — |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 67 of 101 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.