Jisc: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)South West EnglandBristolRan 3 procurements for other authorities

Official UK PPONPGYD-1575-ZHXXWebsitejisc.ac.uk ↗

Open now3next deadline 5 Nov 2026
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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 months72+67% vs prior 12 months (43)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Top-3 supplier share11%of 171 awarded procedures · 184 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.

171 awarded tenders, 184 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months225 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£21mnet · 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.

Open notices

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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Digital Transformation and Research & Innovation Consultancy Open FrameworkFramework2 lots5 Nov 202616d£1,000,000
Electronic Research and Laboratory Notebook DPSDPS4 Nov 2027380d£1,500,000
Digital Preservation Systems DPSDPS19 Feb 2029853d£10,000,000

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 · 115 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.

  • Framework72%(83 notices)
    83 of 115 notices are Framework (72%).
  • Contract28%(32 notices)
    32 of 115 notices are Contract (28%).
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.

  • Direct award67%(77 notices)
    77 of 115 notices are Direct award (67%).
  • Route not published20%(23 notices)
    23 of 115 notices are Route not published (20%).
  • Open10%(11 notices)
    11 of 115 notices are Open (10%).
  • Limited / restricted2%(2 notices)
    2 of 115 notices are Limited / restricted (2%).
  • Selective2%(2 notices)
    2 of 115 notices are Selective (2%).
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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

9indicative · n=20% 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 6 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

72 daysrobust · n=6
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 113 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

012 of 113 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 2 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% at estimateindicative · n=2

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
SAGE Publications Ltdframework/DPS on 174.1%1729 Oct 2025
Elsevier B.V.framework/DPS on 263.5%285 May 2026
Proquest LLCframework/DPS on 352.9%267 Oct 2026
BMJ Publishing Group Limitedframework/DPS on 342.3%359 Sept 2026
Portland Press Limited framework/DPS on 242.3%2712 Aug 2026
cengage learning (EMEA) Ltdframework/DPS on 242.3%2613 Apr 2026
Cambridge University Pressframework/DPS on 331.8%3429 May 2026
Oxford University Press Limitedframework/DPS on 331.8%3314 Jul 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 171 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 184 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.

£21mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 5 of 5 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 100%; a further 6 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.
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.

£276k middle valuerobust · n=5Middle half £200k–£541k.
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
FinOps solutionIBM UNITED KINGDOM LIMITED7 Nov 20252 yrs · up to 4 yrs£20,000,000
≈ £10m/yr
Forsta PlusFORSTA WORLDWIDE LTD4 Sept 20263 yrs£541,000
≈ £180k/yr
Portwall Lane Cleaning Services 2026SKWEEKY KLEEN SOUTH WEST LTD11 Sept 20262 yrs · up to 4 yrs£276,000
≈ £138k/yr
Development of LSM platformSalesforce UK Limited2 Oct 20256 mo · up to 1 yrs£200,000
Report on quantifying the technical debt in the UK higher education sector: Developing the financial evidence for collaborative efficienciesTPX Impact Limited—4 mo£156,425 †

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 · 87 of 270 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 22 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 219 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Request for Information: Cloud managed service team outsourcing on-call customer supportCloud managed service team outsourcing on-call customer supportComputer facilities management servicesPlanning20 Oct 2026—
JSTOR Path to Open 2027-2029FrameworkAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026—
American Chemical Society Journals 2027FrameworkAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026—
Bristol University Press Journals Collection Read and Publish 2027-2029FrameworkAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026—
Forsta PlusData-acquisition systemAwarded / complete16 Oct 2026£541,000
ProQuest Film, Music & Performing Arts Collection 2026-2029FrameworkAwarded / complete9 Oct 2026—
ProQuest Archives (access fees) 2026-2029FrameworkAwarded / complete8 Oct 2026—
Complete exhibitor packagesFrameworkExhibition standsAwarded / complete7 Oct 2026£456,000
Portwall Lane Cleaning Services 2026Office cleaning servicesAwarded / complete1 Oct 2026£276,000
Consultancy and training AI offerSystems and technical consultancy servicesPlanning25 Sept 2026£1,200,000
American Mathematical Society (AMS) MathSciNet, Journals and eBooksFrameworkAwarded / complete16 Sept 2026—
The Company of Biologists Read and Publish 2027-2028FrameworkAwarded / complete10 Sept 2026—
BMJ Read and Publish 2027FrameworkAwarded / complete9 Sept 2026—
SIC and SOC Coding of the Graduate Outcomes surveyContent or data standardization and classification servicesOpen9 Sept 2026£1,250,000
De Gruyter Read and Publish 2027FrameworkAwarded / complete9 Sept 2026—
SIEM/SOAR Solution for Jisc Security Operations CentreInformation technology servicesOpen2 Sept 2026£9,250,000
Brill Journals Read and Publish 2027FrameworkAwarded / complete28 Aug 2026—
Cold Spring Harbor Journals Read & Publish 2027-2028FrameworkAwarded / complete28 Aug 2026—
Optica Publishing Group Read and Publish Journals 2027FrameworkAwarded / complete20 Aug 2026—
Portland Press Journals Read and Publish 2027-2029FrameworkAwarded / complete12 Aug 2026—

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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. 87 of 270 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
  • Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.