Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessments: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Local authorityNorthern IrelandBelfast

Official UK PPONPCWP-8538-ZXYY

Open now0no live notices

Notices, last 12 months10% vs prior 12 months (1)

Contracts ending ≤18 months32 within 6 months · 1 estimated

Published award value, 24m£660knet · on 2 of 2 published values · top 5 = 100%

What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedure · 50%

80 Education and training services1 procedure · 50%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 2 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool

Contract100%(2 notices)
2 of 2 notices are Contract (100%).

Procedure route

Open50%(1 notice)
1 of 2 notices is Open (50%).
Route not published50%(1 notice)
1 of 2 notices is Route not published (50%).

Bids per lot, few lots

Based on 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Fewer than 5 lots: a median, not a typical figure.

2indicative · n=10% of lots drew a single bid

Award vs estimate

Based on 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

0% at estimateindicative · n=1

Who wins here
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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
COMPUTER SYSTEMS INTEGRATION LIMITED	2	25%	1	2	—
ALCHEMY DESIGN & TRAINING LTD	1	12.5%	1	1	25 Sept 2025
Zellis UK Ltd	1	12.5%	0	2	—
UNIT4 Business Software Limited	1	12.5%	0	1	24 Nov 2023
The Psychometric Centre, Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education	1	12.5%	0	1	—
The Royal Mail Group Limited (t/a Parcelforce Worldwide)	1	12.5%	0	1	—
DELL PRODUCTS	1	12.5%	0	1	—

8 awarded procedures across 7 suppliers: too few to describe concentration.

Published award value (24m)

£660kSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 2 of 2 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 100%.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
ID 5940214 - DE - Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) - Confidential Typesetting Services	ALCHEMY DESIGN & TRAINING LTD	25 Sept 2025	2 yrs · up to 4 yrs	£583,333 ≈ £292k/yr
ICT-26-001 Disaster Recovery IBM Power System	COMPUTER SYSTEMS INTEGRATION LIMITED	—	3 mo	£76,675 †

Contracts ending
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6 of 9 contracts carry an end date, 3 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
CCEA - SaaS Finance System	UNIT4 Business Software Limited	30 Nov 2026	£307,000
Contract	The Royal Mail Group Limited (t/a Parcelforce Worldwide)	15 Apr 2027 estimated	£2,533,333
ID 5940214 - DE - Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) - Confidential Typesetting Services	ALCHEMY DESIGN & TRAINING LTD, ALCHEMY DESIGN & TRAINING LTD	7 Oct 2027	£583,333

Recent procedures

Latest 9 of 10 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
ICT-26-001 Disaster Recovery IBM Power System	Awarded / complete	18 Mar 2026	—
DE - Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) - Confidential Typesetting ServicesDigital printing services	Awarded / complete	8 Oct 2025	£583,333
ID 5584099 DAC 86/24 DE CCEA - Hr and Payroll SystemIT services: consulting	Awarded / complete	23 Oct 2024	—
BSP-23-019 Provision of Courier Services for CCEAcentral purchasing bodyCourier services	Awarded / complete	30 Apr 2024	£2,533,333
ICT-23-026 - CCEA – IBM Power Systemcentral purchasing bodyComputer equipment and supplies	Awarded / complete	16 Apr 2024	£123,333
CCEA IBM Power SystemComputer equipment and supplies	Planned	14 Feb 2024	—
ICT-23-001 CCEA - ICT Infrastructure Server Procurementcentral purchasing bodyComputer equipment and supplies	Awarded / complete	12 Jun 2023	£171,000
DE CCEA Specialist Support for the Development of Computer-Adaptive TestsCustom software development services	Awarded / complete	5 Feb 2021	—
DE - CCEA - GCSE Baseline Computer Adaptive Assessment - PMEBusiness transaction and personal business software package	Planned	13 Jan 2021	—

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Contracts Finder adds 1 more procedure 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. 6 of 9 published contracts have an end date; 3 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.