Department of Education: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Central governmentNorthern IrelandBangor

Official UK PPONPTYH-9512-JWZZWebsiteeducation-ni.gov.uk ↗

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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.

Notices, last 12 months30% vs prior 12 months (3)
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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 lot233.3% single-bid · 3 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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share28%of 18 awarded procedures · 17 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.

18 awarded tenders, 17 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months1none 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.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published award value, 24m£4.6mnet · on 5 of 5 published values · top 5 = 100%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

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 · 6 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.

  • Contract100%(6 notices)
    6 of 6 notices are Contract (100%).
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.

  • Open67%(4 notices)
    4 of 6 notices are Open (67%).
  • Direct award33%(2 notices)
    2 of 6 notices are Direct award (33%).
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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2moderate · n=333.3% 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 3 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

33 daysmoderate · n=3
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 6 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

0.53 of 6 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 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0.2% below estimatemoderate · n=3

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
National Childrens Bureau211.1%1211 Feb 2026
INEQE GROUP LIMITED211.1%02—
Pearson Education Limited15.6%111 Dec 2025
Queen's University Belfast15.6%1130 Apr 2026
Ruth Miskin Literacy Limited15.6%1120 Feb 2026
InnerDrive Ltd15.6%1119 May 2025
HODDER STOUGHTON EDUCATIONAL LIMITED15.6%02—
BEING COMMUNICATIONS LTD15.6%01—

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); 17 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£4.6mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 5 of 5 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 100%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£399k middle valuerobust · n=5Middle half £327k–£766k.
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
DE - Teacher Education and Professional Learning - Replacement for Professional Qualification for Headship for Northern IrelandQueen's University Belfast30 Apr 20263.1 yrs · up to 5.1 yrs£3,000,000
≈ £973k/yr
ID 5967233 - DE - Statistics and Research - The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2027Pearson Education Limited1 Dec 20253.3 yrs · up to 3.8 yrs£766,300
≈ £236k/yr
ID 5998126 - DE - Independent evaluation of the RAISE programmeNational Childrens Bureau11 Feb 20262 yrs · up to 4 yrs£399,160
≈ £200k/yr
ID 5963878 - DAC 57/25 - DE - PROVISION OF AN ONLINE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PLATFORM ON THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING FOR POST PRIMARY SCHOOLSInnerDrive Ltd19 May 20251 yrs£327,474
≈ £327k/yr
DAC 84/25 – DE – CURRICULUM REFORM – IMPROVING LITERACY IN PRIMARY SCHOOLSRuth Miskin Literacy Limited20 Feb 20263 yrs£152,000
≈ £51k/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.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published end dates only · 5 of 20 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 23 of 23 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
DE - Teacher Education and Professional Learning - Replacement for Professional Qualification for Headship for Northern IrelandEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete15 May 2026£2,150,000
DE – CURRICULUM REFORM – IMPROVING LITERACY IN PRIMARY SCHOOLSAwarded / complete9 Mar 2026—
ID 5998126 - DE - Independent evaluation of the RAISE programmeEvaluation consultancy servicesAwarded / complete3 Mar 2026£400,000
ID 5967233 - DE - Statistics and Research - The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2027Research and development services and related consultancy servicesAwarded / complete23 Dec 2025£796,000
ID 5963878 - DAC 57/25 - DE - PROVISION OF AN ONLINE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING PLATFORM ON THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING FOR POST PRIMARY SCHOOLSAwarded / complete3 Jun 2025—
DE - 5888500E - St. Josephs Primary School, Belfast - CCTV and Door Access ControlsConstruction workOpen27 Mar 2025£75,000
Strule Shared Education Campus Main Works ContractBuilding construction workAwarded / complete26 Jul 2024—
ID 5077729 - DfE - BMC - Belfast Met Website Development and Hostingcentral purchasing bodyContent management software development servicesAwarded / complete23 Jul 2024£200,000
ID 4549411 - DE - An Outcome based Evaluation of Limavady Shared Education Campus for Department of Education NIcentral purchasing bodyBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete8 Aug 2023£350,000
ID 4458407 DE - Standardisation of Pre-School Education Programme Scoping Studycentral purchasing bodyBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesAwarded / complete1 Mar 2023£200,000
DE 3924804 Strule Shared Education Campus Main Works Contract (OPEN)central purchasing bodyBuilding construction workOpen9 Aug 2022£120,000,000
DE - Delivery of a Mobile Application to Provide Advice and Guidance to Keep Children Safe Onlinecentral purchasing bodySoftware programming and consultancy servicesAwarded / complete8 Jul 2022£525,000
ID 3703924 -DE - Review of Special Educational Needs (SEN) service provision and processescentral purchasing bodyAccounting and auditing servicesAwarded / complete6 May 2022£190,000
DAC 33/22 – DE – GCSE Revision eBooks.central purchasing bodyIT services: consultingAwarded / complete7 Mar 2022—
DAC 158/21 - DE - CCEA - Specialist support for the development of Computer Adaptive Tests (CATs)IT services: consultingAwarded / complete24 Feb 2022—
DE - Trends in International Mathematics and Science (TIMSS) 2023central purchasing bodyResearch consultancy servicesAwarded / complete17 Dec 2021£750,000
ID 3833392 - DE - Delivery of an App to provide advice and guidance to keep children safe online - PMEBusiness transaction and personal business software packagePlanned5 Nov 2021—
ID 3682929 - DE - Education Authority Landscape ReviewAccounting and auditing servicesAwarded / complete20 Oct 2021£179,000
ID 3499311 - DE - Review of Education AuthorityAccounting and auditing servicesCancelled28 Sept 2021£180,000
ID 3273916 - DE CCEA - Confidential Typesetting ContractDigital printing servicesOpen20 Jul 2021£679,000

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About this data
  • Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
  • 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. 5 of 20 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
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