Cheshire College South and West: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Further education·Education·North West England·Crewe
Registry IDGB-UKPRN-10005972Websiteccsw.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.
11 awarded tenders, 19 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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 80%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances1 procedures · 20%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 · 5 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 80% (4 notices)
- Framework 20% (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.
- Open 80% (4 notices)
- Selective 20% (1 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 2 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 5 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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| Pauls Coaches | 2 | 18.2% | 0 | 4 | 23 May 2023 |
| Mikro Coaches Limited | 2 | 18.2% | 0 | 3 | 23 May 2023 |
| Bluestorm Design & Marketing Ltd | 1 | 9.1% | 1 | 1 | 30 Oct 2024 |
| One Agency Media Limited | 1 | 9.1% | 1 | 1 | 30 Oct 2024 |
| Ubiquity Group | 1 | 9.1% | 1 | 1 | 30 Oct 2024 |
| CSP AUDIO VISUAL LIMITED | 1 | 9.1% | 1 | 1 | 30 Oct 2024 |
| ELITE OFFICE FURNITURE (UK) LTD. | 1 | 9.1% | 1 | 1 | 20 Dec 2024 |
| Bates Office Services | 1 | 9.1% | 1 | 1 | 20 Dec 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 27% of 11 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 19 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.
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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| Cheshire College South & West - Marketing Technical Theatre - ITT | CSP AUDIO VISUAL LIMITED | — | — | £300,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 14 of 14 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Security ServicesSecurity services | Open | 7 May 2026 | £210,000 |
| Cheshire College S&W - Security Services - ITTSecurity services | Open | 14 Feb 2025 | — |
| Cheshire College S&W - Furniture Provision - ITTFurniture | Awarded / complete | 20 Dec 2024 | — |
| Cheshire College South & West - Marketing Technical Theatre - ITTAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 30 Oct 2024 | — |
| CCSW - Marketing Out of Home (OOH) Framework - ITTAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 30 Oct 2024 | — |
| Cheshire College (South & West) - The Maintenance of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration PlantsHeating engineering services for buildings | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2024 | — |
| CHESHIRE COLLEGE S&W – OPEN TENDER – WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES – ITTRefuse and waste related services | Awarded / complete | 9 Nov 2023 | — |
| Grounds Maintenance Services for Cheshire South and WestGrounds maintenance services | Cancelled | 20 Oct 2023 | — |
| CHESHIRE COLLEGE SOUTH & WEST - STUDENT TRANSPORTATION SERVICESTransport services (excl. Waste transport) | Awarded / complete | 23 May 2023 | — |
| Cheshire South & West Student Transport ServicesTransport services (excl. Waste transport) | Awarded / complete | 28 Mar 2023 | — |
| ITT - Cheshire South & West ICT Refresh and Continued SupplyComputer equipment and supplies | Awarded / complete | 28 Mar 2023 | — |
| CPC/PM/02/2020: Minor Works - RefurbishmentEngineering works and construction works | Awarded / complete | 20 Feb 2023 | — |
| Cheshire College South & West - Building Cleaning ServicesBuilding-cleaning services | Awarded / complete | 28 Jun 2022 | — |
| Cheshire College S&W - Supply and Installation of Engineering Machines and RoboticsCNC lathe | Awarded / complete | 10 Jun 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 (£210k, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 3 award records on 3 procedures (1 to a single canonical supplier, 2 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: 0 of 24 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 (1 historical Find a Tender publication identifier)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-UKPRN-10005972