Colchester Institute: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Further education·Education·East of England·Colchester
Registry IDGB-UKPRN-10001535Websitecolchester.ac.uk ↗
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18 awarded tenders, 16 different suppliers.
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas1 procedure · 33%34 Transport equipment and products1 procedure · 33%38 Laboratory, optical and precision1 procedure · 33%41 Collected and purified water1 procedure · 33%44 Construction structures and materials1 procedure · 33%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedure · 33%71 Architectural, construction, engineering1 procedure · 33%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedure · 33%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 3 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract67%(2 notices)
2 of 3 notices are Contract (67%).Framework33%(1 notice)
1 of 3 notices is Framework (33%).
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Direct award67%(2 notices)
2 of 3 notices are Direct award (67%).Open33%(1 notice)
1 of 3 notices is Open (33%).
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Based on 3 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
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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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| Stone Technologies Ltd t/a Converge Technology Solutions | 3 | 16.7% | 0 | 3 | 20 Nov 2023 |
| CSH ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITED | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | 17 Sept 2025 |
| Scrutton Bland LLP | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | 22 Jul 2025 |
| Tribal Education Ltd | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| ACS Business Supplies Ltd | 1 | 5.6% | 0 | 1 | 9 Aug 2022 |
| Swiftclean (UK) Limited | 1 | 5.6% | 0 | 1 | 14 Apr 2022 |
| GSS | 1 | 5.6% | 0 | 1 | 25 Jul 2023 |
| Direct Meats | 1 | 5.6% | 0 | 1 | 12 Jan 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 28% of 18 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 16 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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Largest published awards i | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| EBS Level 3 Support and Subscription Renewal 2026-2027 | Tribal Education Ltd | — | 1 yrs | £148,254 † ≈ £148k/yr |
Contracts endingi
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20 of 20 contracts carry an end date, 2 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| CA12907 - Colchester Institute is looking for a supply of digital media LSIP PC workstations | Stone Technologies Ltd t/a Converge Technology Solutions | 22 Nov 2026 | Not published |
| CA13220 - Colchester Institute are looking for a supply of butchered meat contract | Direct Meats | 31 Jan 2027 | Not published |
| CA13593 - Colchester Institute are looking for a supply of outsourced catering contract | Aramark Ltd | 31 Jul 2027 | £143,944 |
| EBS Level 3 Support and Subscription Renewal 2026-2027 | Tribal Education Ltd | 31 Jul 2027 | £148,254 |
| CA14388 - Colchester Institute are looking to tender for the service of lift maintenance | Eastern Lift Services Ltd | 1 Sept 2027 | Not published |
| Colchester Institute - External Audit Services | MHA Macintyre Hudson | 28 Sept 2027 estimated | £104,033 |
| Colchester Institute Recycling and Waste Management Services - AWARD | CSH ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITED | 30 Sept 2027 | Not published |
| CA10471 - Colchester Institute - Franking Machines | FP Mailing T/A Francotyp Postalia Ltd | 8 Nov 2027 | £6,425 |
Recent procedures
Latest 5 of 5 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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| EBS Level 3 Support and Subscription Renewal 2026-2027 | Awarded / complete | 28 Aug 2026 | — |
| HR Management Software | Awarded / complete | 3 Feb 2026 | — |
| Trident Energy FrameworkDrinking water | Open | 6 Dec 2024 | £645,000,000 |
| Colchester Institute are looking for a supply of outsourced catering contractCanteen and catering services | Awarded / complete | 13 May 2024 | £2,700,000 |
| Colchester Institute - External Audit ServicesAuditing services | Awarded / complete | 24 Oct 2022 | — |
Search all 5 procedures for this authority →
Contracts Finder adds 16 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.
About this data
- 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. 20 of 20 published contracts have an end date; 2 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.