Cardiff University: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·Wales (Cymru)·Cardiff·Central purchasing body on 28 of 159 notices
Official UK PPONPHVT-4343-HWYRWebsitecardiff.ac.uk ↗
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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 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 25 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
205 awarded tenders, 260 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.
Open notices
4 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Occupational Health Platform | 21 Oct 2026 | 1d | £200,000 |
| Uncrewed Ocean Surface Vehicle (USV) | 23 Oct 2026 | 3d | £100,000 |
| Air Conditioning Service & Maintenance | 13 Nov 2026 | 23d | £8,837,500 |
| Flexible Lifelong Learning | 17 Nov 2026 | 28d | £5,000,000 |
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 systems16 procedures · 10% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting12 procedures · 8% · 1 open50 Repair and maintenance services8 procedures · 5% · 1 open33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals7 procedures · 4%71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 4%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental6 procedures · 4%45 Construction work4 procedures · 3%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet4 procedures · 3%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 · 159 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.
Contract94%(149 notices)
149 of 159 notices are Contract (94%).Framework6%(10 notices)
10 of 159 notices are Framework (6%).
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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 award42%(66 notices)
66 of 159 notices are Direct award (42%).Open25%(40 notices)
40 of 159 notices are Open (25%).Limited / restricted16%(26 notices)
26 of 159 notices are Limited / restricted (16%).Route not published14%(23 notices)
23 of 159 notices are Route not published (14%).Selective3%(4 notices)
4 of 159 notices are Selective (3%).
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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 25 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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 25 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 159 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 18 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| CDW Limited | 4 | 2% | 4 | 4 | — |
| NST TRAVEL GROUP LIMITED | 4 | 2% | 3 | 4 | 24 Nov 2025 |
| CriticalArc Limited | 3 | 1.5% | 3 | 3 | — |
| Becton, Dickinson U.K. Limited | 3 | 1.5% | 2 | 3 | — |
| Bidvest Noonan (UK) Limited | 3 | 1.5% | 2 | 3 | 2 Sept 2026 |
| Pure Klass Cleaning Ltd | 3 | 1.5% | 0 | 6 | — |
| BERRY SUPPORT SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 3 | 1.5% | 0 | 5 | — |
| A QUALITY SERVICE LTD | 3 | 1.5% | 0 | 5 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 5% of 205 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 260 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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| Cleaning Services, South Campus, Cardiff University | Bidvest Noonan (UK) Limited | 21 Jul 2025 | 1.9 yrs · up to 3.9 yrs | £9,906,427 ≈ £5.2m/yr |
| Main Contract - NEC4 Option A | Bray and Slaughter | 26 Aug 2026 | 1.3 yrs | £9,894,368 ≈ £7.4m/yr |
| Security Systems Maintenance and Support | PROTECTORCOMMS LIMITED | — | — | £4,295,813 † |
| Car Parking Management | UK PARKING CONTROL LIMITED | 2 Jun 2026 | 2.9 yrs · up to 4.9 yrs | £3,880,000 ≈ £1.3m/yr |
| SOC | CDW Limited | — | — | £3,369,489 † |
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 · 101 of 252 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| MEG Maintenance Service | CTF MEG Neuro Innovations Inc. | 31 Oct 2026 | £91,000 |
| Purchase of 3 portable human MRI open software systems | Open Imaging B.V. | 17 Dec 2026 | £345,000 |
| CU.2055.HM - Overleaf Commons renewal | DIGITAL SCIENCE UK LIMITED | 22 Dec 2026 | £52,016 |
| Autonomous Underwater Research Vehicle | Planet Ocean Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £605,095 |
| North Wales Project Manager Extension | Bangor University | 31 Dec 2026 | £27,000 |
| Purchase of Zetaview Evolution twin NTA | Analytik Ltd | 1 Jan 2027 | £93,570 |
| UG Internships Abroad | Gradcore | 6 Jan 2027 | £42,000 |
| T1D-Plus study with Dexcom | 91,200, Dexcom International Limited | 20 Jan 2027 | £76,000 |
| Service contract for OIPT Plasma Tools | Oxford Instruments | 22 Feb 2027 | £70,558 |
| Purchase of maskless laser lithography system | Raith GmbH | 6 Mar 2027 | €478,290 |
Soonest 10 of 36 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 274 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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| Radiopharmaceuticals 18FDG | Awarded / complete | 24 Jul 2026 | — |
| Car Parking ManagementCar park management services | Awarded / complete | 23 Jul 2026 | £2,880,000 |
| Residences Low Occupancy Water FlushingPreventive maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 13 Jul 2026 | £150,000 |
| Fire Alarm Testing and Maintenance at Cardiff UniversityBurglar and fire alarms | Awarded / complete | 13 Jul 2026 | £4,861,111 |
| Electric VehiclesElectric vehicles | Awarded / complete | 8 Jul 2026 | — |
| Thermal ManikinInstruments for checking physical characteristics | Open | 29 Jun 2026 | £118,000 |
| Structured CablingNetwork cabling | Open | 29 Jun 2026 | £190,000 |
| PSMA Radiopharmaceuticals | Awarded / complete | 26 Jun 2026 | — |
| Amersham Typhoon IP | Awarded / complete | 26 Jun 2026 | — |
| Posijet Consumables | Awarded / complete | 26 Jun 2026 | — |
| Client Technical Advisor - Cathays CampusConstruction consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 23 Jun 2026 | £333,333 |
| Asbestos Consultancy and Removal/Remediation FrameworkAsbestos removal services | Awarded / complete | 18 Jun 2026 | £490,000 |
| Decommissioning of Cyclotron VaultDismantling works | Planning | 18 Jun 2026 | £2,000,000 |
| Residences Extractor Fan CleaningBuilding-cleaning services | Awarded / complete | 9 Jun 2026 | £130,167 |
| VMWare 2026Software package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 2 Jun 2026 | — |
| Nutanix HardwareData-processing machines (hardware) | Awarded / complete | 28 May 2026 | — |
| 4GU Report | Awarded / complete | 26 May 2026 | — |
| SafeZoneSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 15 May 2026 | — |
| SafeZoneSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 15 May 2026 | — |
| SafeZoneSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 15 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. 101 of 252 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.