Department for Education: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Ministerial departmentNHS ODS: GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTCentral governmentGreater LondonLondonRan 3 procurements for other authorities

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Open now1next deadline 6 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months215+84% vs prior 12 months (117)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Typical bids per lot410.2% single-bid · 59 bid reports
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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 59 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share6%of 386 awarded procedures · 687 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.

386 awarded tenders, 687 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months11028 within 6 months
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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.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£2.0bnnet · on 216 of 334 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 74%
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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.

Open notices

1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Modified Test Framework 2027/2031Framework6 Oct 20266d£3,184,440

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 · 332 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 95% (315 notices)
  • Framework 5% (17 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.

  • Limited / restricted 27% (91 notices)
  • Route not published 27% (88 notices)
  • Open 23% (76 notices)
  • Direct award 16% (54 notices)
  • Selective 7% (23 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 59 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

4robust · n=5910.2% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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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 33 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

49 daysrobust · n=33
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 332 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

092 of 332 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 33 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0.4% below estimaterobust · n=33

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
Mutual Ventures92.3%51011 Aug 2026
Mott MacDonald82.1%4911 Sept 2026
National Childrens Bureau61.6%268 Jul 2026
Education Development Trustframework/DPS on 361.6%1610 Jan 2025
Cognizant Worldwide Ltd61.6%064 Sept 2024
Teach Firstframework/DPS on 251.3%3519 May 2026
RM Education Ltd51.3%0516 Jul 2024
MCAVOY MODULAR OFFSITE LIMITEDframework/DPS on 241%41110 Jul 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 386 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 687 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.

£2.0bnSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 216 of 334 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 74%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£124k middle valuerobust · n=216Middle half £25k–£2.1m; 28 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
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
Explore education statistics platform supportSee Contracts Finder Notice for full supplier list—4 yrs£813,000,000 †
≈ £203m/yr
Media Buying Call Off 2026Wavemaker Ltd22 Apr 20264 yrs£300,000,000
≈ £75m/yr
High Potential Initial Teacher Training and Leadership Development Programme 2022/23 con_8477Teach First—7.5 yrs£137,264,507 †
≈ £18m/yr
Copyright Licences for Schools - Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA)THE COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY LTD1 Apr 20266 yrs£109,481,016
≈ £18m/yr
Future High Potential Initial Teacher Training Programme 2027 - 2029 cohortsTeach First19 May 20265.4 yrs · up to 7.4 yrs£89,000,000
≈ £16m/yr

Contracts ending
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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.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 408 of 988 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 110 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 657 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
UK6 - Step Up to Social Work Cohort 10 ContractorRecruitment servicesAwarded / complete9 Sept 2026£458,333
Family Finding Programme RolloutWelfare services for children and young peopleAwarded / complete9 Sept 2026£7,000,000
The Fosterline ServiceHelpdesk and support servicesPlanning28 Aug 2026£0
Regenerative Schools Pilot - Academic Assurance PartnerDesign and execution of research and developmentAwarded / complete27 Aug 2026£1,487,500
Thameside Primary SchoolAwarded / complete27 Aug 2026—
Merrylands Primary SchoolAwarded / complete27 Aug 2026—
The Cavendish SchoolAwarded / complete27 Aug 2026—
Bishop Walsh Catholic SchoolAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026—
Stepney All Saints Church of England Secondary SchoolAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026—
The Holy Family Catholic SchoolAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026—
St James Daisy Hill, Church of England Primary SchoolAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026—
Cherry Tree AcademyAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026—
Working Collaboratively Opportunity – Supporting School Access to Adrenaline Auto-Injectors (AAIs)Miscellaneous medical devices and productsPlanning26 Aug 2026£0
Developing a Digital and Data Skills PathwayDevelopment consultancy servicesAwarded / complete22 Aug 2026£500,000
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Inclusion Continuing Professional Development (CPD) FrameworkFrameworkAdult and other education servicesPlanned18 Aug 2026£640,000,000
Schools Gigabit BroadbandCommunications system maintenance servicesPlanning14 Aug 2026£20,000,000
T Level Industry Placement Support ServicesEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete13 Aug 2026£2,000,000
Early Years (EY) Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Provision of Phase 1 Materials and TrainingEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete13 Aug 2026£3,166,667
Inquiry Response Support 2026Awarded / complete12 Aug 2026—
RCC and Fostering Hubs Delivery Partner Preliminary Market Engagement NoticeBusiness and management consultancy servicesAwarded / complete11 Aug 2026£3,333,333

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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 (£3.2bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 348 award records on 218 procedures (334 to a single canonical supplier, 14 multi-supplier). 146 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: 408 of 988 published contracts carry a period end; 110 end within 18 months, 28 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (33 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-101316GB-FTS-102050GB-FTS-102323GB-FTS-102948GB-FTS-102967GB-FTS-103457GB-FTS-117088GB-FTS-119208GB-FTS-123509GB-FTS-125307GB-FTS-155446GB-FTS-155992GB-FTS-165GB-FTS-18168GB-FTS-20059GB-FTS-21594GB-FTS-24099GB-FTS-27190GB-FTS-28443GB-FTS-47521GB-FTS-47644GB-FTS-49352GB-FTS-53343GB-FTS-53948

+9 further identifiers not listed here.

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PDZG-3487-DPVD