Department for Education: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified Test Framework 2027/2031 | 6 Oct 2026 | 6d | £3,184,440 |
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
80 Education and training services83 procedures · 25% · 1 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet34 procedures · 10%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting33 procedures · 10%85 Health and social work services20 procedures · 6%71 Architectural, construction, engineering17 procedures · 5%73 Research and development services12 procedures · 4%48 Software package and information systems9 procedures · 3%75 Administration, defence and social security9 procedures · 3%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 · 332 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 95% (315 notices)
- Framework 5% (17 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.
- Limited / restricted 27% (91 notices)
- Route not published 27% (88 notices)
- Open 23% (76 notices)
- Direct award 16% (54 notices)
- Selective 7% (23 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 59 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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| Mutual Ventures | 9 | 2.3% | 5 | 10 | 11 Aug 2026 |
| Mott MacDonald | 8 | 2.1% | 4 | 9 | 11 Sept 2026 |
| National Childrens Bureau | 6 | 1.6% | 2 | 6 | 8 Jul 2026 |
| Education Development Trust | 6 | 1.6% | 1 | 6 | 10 Jan 2025 |
| Cognizant Worldwide Ltd | 6 | 1.6% | 0 | 6 | 4 Sept 2024 |
| Teach First | 5 | 1.3% | 3 | 5 | 19 May 2026 |
| RM Education Ltd | 5 | 1.3% | 0 | 5 | 16 Jul 2024 |
| MCAVOY MODULAR OFFSITE LIMITED | 4 | 1% | 4 | 11 | 10 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.
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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.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
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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| Explore education statistics platform support | See Contracts Finder Notice for full supplier list | — | 4 yrs | £813,000,000 † ≈ £203m/yr |
| Media Buying Call Off 2026 | Wavemaker Ltd | 22 Apr 2026 | 4 yrs | £300,000,000 ≈ £75m/yr |
| High Potential Initial Teacher Training and Leadership Development Programme 2022/23 con_8477 | Teach First | — | 7.5 yrs | £137,264,507 † ≈ £18m/yr |
| Copyright Licences for Schools - Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) | THE COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY LTD | 1 Apr 2026 | 6 yrs | £109,481,016 ≈ £18m/yr |
| Future High Potential Initial Teacher Training Programme 2027 - 2029 cohorts | Teach First | 19 May 2026 | 5.4 yrs · up to 7.4 yrs | £89,000,000 ≈ £16m/yr |
Contracts endingi
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.
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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
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Freelance Policy Advisor (con_28516) | Kevin Wang | 1 Oct 2026 | £24,500 |
| Knowledge Pass - Project Delivery (con_28890) | The Knowledge Academy | 15 Oct 2026 | £30,000 |
| Perspective License (con_29279) | Pendragon, Wilmington Publishing and Information Ltd | 21 Oct 2026 | £26,800 |
| Attendance Mentors Expansion | Empowering Educational International Limited (Etio) | 30 Oct 2026 | £14,997,424 |
| LISTENING TO CHILDREN IN KINSHIP CARE: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF LIVED EXPERIENCE (con_31011) | Coram | 31 Oct 2026 | £49,805 |
| Freelance Policy Advisor (con_29030) | Isobel Miller | 4 Nov 2026 | £24,500 |
| con_29270 - Benchmarking tool for Schools Pilot | TCM Technology Ltd | 16 Nov 2026 | £82,250 |
| Health workforce specification for children in complex situations at risk of deprivation of liberty | Anna Freud/UCL/SLaM | 27 Nov 2026 | £149,510 |
| FENCCSS (Further Education Network & Cyber Security Services) | Jisc | 30 Nov 2026 | £42,000,000 |
| Freelance Policy Advisor - Frances MacLellan (con_29552) | FRANCES MACLELLAN | 1 Dec 2026 | £24,500 |
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
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Building Equal Access to Chess in Schools - Contract DetailsEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2026 | £750,000 |
| School Teacher Recruitment Marketing CampaignAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2026 | £7,200,000 |
| Further Education Network Connectivity and Cyber Security Services (FENCCSS) | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2026 | — |
| General Qualifications Logistics ServiceCourier services | Planning | 10 Aug 2026 | £49,000,000 |
| DfE Solar Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) PilotElectricity | Planning | 6 Aug 2026 | £0 |
| Technical & Vocational Subject Teaching Professional DevelopmentEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2026 | £19,416,667 |
| National Data Dashboard for Children's Social Care Placements | Awarded / complete | 4 Aug 2026 | — |
| Matrix Standard administration and managementEducation and training services | Open | 3 Aug 2026 | £3,000,000 |
| Engagement on Data Insight, Data Standards, and Digital Support SolutionsEducational software package | Planned | 3 Aug 2026 | — |
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.
+9 further identifiers not listed here.
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