Cheshire College South and West: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

DfE school register: Further educationEducationNorth West EnglandCrewe

Registry IDGB-UKPRN-10005972Websiteccsw.ac.uk ↗

Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months1-75% vs prior 12 months (4)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Top-3 supplier share27%of 11 awarded procedures · 19 suppliers
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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.

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£300knet · on 1 of 1 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
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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 buy
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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

How they buy
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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

Commercial tool
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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)
Procedure route
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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)
Typical bids per lot
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

7.5indicative · n=20% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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.

Last 24 months.

43 of 5 notices amended

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Pauls Coaches218.2%0423 May 2023
Mikro Coaches Limited218.2%0323 May 2023
Bluestorm Design & Marketing Ltdframework/DPS on 119.1%1130 Oct 2024
One Agency Media Limitedframework/DPS on 119.1%1130 Oct 2024
Ubiquity Groupframework/DPS on 119.1%1130 Oct 2024
CSP AUDIO VISUAL LIMITED19.1%1130 Oct 2024
ELITE OFFICE FURNITURE (UK) LTD.19.1%1120 Dec 2024
Bates Office Services19.1%1120 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.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£300kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 1 of 1 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Cheshire College South & West - Marketing Technical Theatre - ITTCSP AUDIO VISUAL LIMITED——£300,000 †

Recent procedures

Latest 14 of 14 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Security ServicesSecurity servicesOpen7 May 2026£210,000
Cheshire College S&W - Security Services - ITTSecurity servicesOpen14 Feb 2025—
Cheshire College S&W - Furniture Provision - ITTFurnitureAwarded / complete20 Dec 2024—
Cheshire College South & West - Marketing Technical Theatre - ITTAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete30 Oct 2024—
CCSW - Marketing Out of Home (OOH) Framework - ITTFrameworkAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete30 Oct 2024—
Cheshire College (South & West) - The Maintenance of Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning & Refrigeration PlantsHeating engineering services for buildingsAwarded / complete19 Aug 2024—
CHESHIRE COLLEGE S&W – OPEN TENDER – WASTE MANAGEMENT SERVICES – ITTRefuse and waste related servicesAwarded / complete9 Nov 2023—
Grounds Maintenance Services for Cheshire South and West4 lotsGrounds maintenance servicesCancelled20 Oct 2023—
CHESHIRE COLLEGE SOUTH & WEST - STUDENT TRANSPORTATION SERVICES10 lotsTransport services (excl. Waste transport)Awarded / complete23 May 2023—
Cheshire South & West Student Transport Services7 lotsTransport services (excl. Waste transport)Awarded / complete28 Mar 2023—
ITT - Cheshire South & West ICT Refresh and Continued SupplyComputer equipment and suppliesAwarded / complete28 Mar 2023—
CPC/PM/02/2020: Minor Works - RefurbishmentEngineering works and construction worksAwarded / complete20 Feb 2023—
Cheshire College South & West - Building Cleaning ServicesBuilding-cleaning servicesAwarded / complete28 Jun 2022—
Cheshire College S&W - Supply and Installation of Engineering Machines and Robotics4 lotsCNC latheAwarded / complete10 Jun 2022—

Search all 14 procedures for this authority →

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.

GB-FTS-44808

Canonical page id: GB-UKPRN-10005972