Harper Adams University: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·West Midlands·Newport
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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 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.
10 awarded tenders, 12 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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
63 Supporting and auxiliary transport; travel2 procedures · 22%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 22%98 Other community, social and personal services2 procedures · 22%15 Food, drink, tobacco1 procedures · 11%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 11%66 Financial and insurance services1 procedures · 11%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 procedures · 11%80 Education and training services1 procedures · 11%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 · 9 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 100% (9 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.
- Open 67% (6 notices)
- Limited / restricted 22% (2 notices)
- Route not published 11% (1 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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 9 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| Softcat Plc | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 10 Apr 2026 |
| VEOLIA ES (UK) LIMITED | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 7 May 2025 |
| Harlech Foodservice Limited | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 10 Apr 2026 |
| BFS GROUP LIMITED | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 10 Apr 2026 |
| APPLYBOARD UK LTD | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 1 May 2025 |
| Severn Trent Services UK Limited | 1 | 10% | 0 | 1 | 20 Jun 2023 |
| Rider Levett Bucknall UK Ltd | 1 | 10% | 0 | 1 | 18 Jul 2022 |
| GRANT THORNTON UK LLP | 1 | 10% | 0 | 1 | 22 Jul 2021 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 30% of 10 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 12 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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| Provision of International Recruitment Services, Harper Adams University | APPLYBOARD UK LTD | — | — | £40,000,000 † |
| Grocery Provisions, Frozen & Chilled Foods | Harlech Foodservice Limited | — | — | £800,000 † |
| Academic Operations Platform | Softcat Plc | — | — | £577,250 † |
| Provision of Waste Management Services for Harper Adams University | VEOLIA ES (UK) LIMITED | — | — | £555,681 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 16 of 16 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£216k, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 5 award records on 4 procedures (5 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 4 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: 0 of 12 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (3 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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