Durham University: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·North East England·The Palatine Centre, Stockton Road
Find a Tender organisation id169
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18 awarded tenders, 23 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
38 Laboratory, optical and precision2 procedures · 100%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedure · 50%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 2 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract100%(2 notices)
2 of 2 notices are Contract (100%).
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Limited / restricted50%(1 notice)
1 of 2 notices is Limited / restricted (50%).Open50%(1 notice)
1 of 2 notices is Open (50%).
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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| Stanley Travel (North East) Ltd | 2 | 11.1% | 0 | 2 | 7 Sept 2021 |
| Transport2 Ltd T/A Kura | 2 | 11.1% | 0 | 2 | 7 Sept 2021 |
| Jim Hughes Coaches Limited | 2 | 11.1% | 0 | 2 | 7 Sept 2021 |
| Vesper Technologies Ltd | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | 11 Feb 2025 |
| Nanometrics Inc | 1 | 5.6% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Options MBS | 1 | 5.6% | 0 | 1 | 29 Oct 2020 |
| Lynne Howlett Coaching | 1 | 5.6% | 0 | 1 | 29 Oct 2020 |
| Brightspace Thinking | 1 | 5.6% | 0 | 1 | 29 Oct 2020 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 18 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 23 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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| 6-off Broadband Ocean-Bottom Seismographs | Nanometrics Inc | — | — | £511,360 † |
Contracts endingi
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17 of 23 contracts carry an end date, 1 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Facilities Management | Mitie Limited | 30 Sept 2027 | £15,000,000 |
| Mass Spectrometer | BRUKER UK LIMITED | 7 Nov 2027 | £765,275 |
Recent procedures
Latest 16 of 16 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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| 6-off Broadband Ocean-Bottom SeismographsLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 23 Jan 2025 | — |
| Dilution FridgeLaboratory | Open | 17 Jan 2025 | £333,333 |
| Online Programme Management (OPM) Partnership for Online Course DevelopmentAdult-education services at university level | Open | 2 May 2024 | £50,000 |
| Lattice Light Sheet MicroscopeFluorescent microscopes | Awarded / complete | 16 Jan 2024 | — |
| Solar PV PanelsSolar panels | Awarded / complete | 13 Apr 2023 | £416,667 |
| Dianthus Nano SystemDrug detection apparatus | Awarded / complete | 4 Jan 2023 | — |
| Accurate Mass Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (Orbitrap)Gas chromatographs | Awarded / complete | 8 Dec 2022 | — |
| Mass SpectrometerMass spectrometer | Awarded / complete | 27 Oct 2022 | — |
| Hild Bede Development & 19th CollegeArchitectural design services | Planned | 22 Jul 2022 | — |
| Hyperspectral Imaging SystemsInstruments for checking physical characteristics | Awarded / complete | 14 Feb 2022 | £300,000 |
| Coach and Mini Bus HireHire of buses and coaches with driver | Awarded / complete | 25 Nov 2021 | — |
| Gas Appliance and Mechanical Services Maintenance, Service and RepairGas appliance maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 3 Sept 2021 | — |
| Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) magnetometerDetection and analysis apparatus | Open | 17 Aug 2021 | £650,000 |
| Co-Sourced Internal AuditInternal audit services | Open | 15 Apr 2021 | £210,000 |
| Philanthropic Campaign ConsultancyAdvertising and marketing services | Open | 2 Mar 2021 | £227,000 |
| 1.2 kW XAFS SpectrometerSpectrometers | Open | 19 Feb 2021 | £300,000 |
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Contracts Finder adds 11 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. 17 of 23 published contracts have an end date; 1 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.