Luminate Education Group: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

DfE school register: Further educationEducationYorkshire and the HumberLeeds

Registry IDGB-UKPRN-10024962Websiteluminate.ac.uk ↗

Open now2next deadline 1 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months8+33% vs prior 12 months (6)
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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 lot2.525% single-bid · 4 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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Published award value, 24m£1.1mnet · on 4 of 4 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
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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

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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
LEG T206 Barracuda MSP Service1 Oct 20261d£140,000
LEG T205 IT Security Operations Centre (SOC) and IT Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP)20 Oct 202620d£640,000

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 · 14 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.

  • Contract 93% (13 notices)
  • Framework 7% (1 notices)
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.

  • Open 100% (14 notices)
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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2.5moderate · n=425% 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.

46 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 14 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

17 of 14 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 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

30.7% below estimateindicative · n=1

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
Matrix Technology Solutions Ltd116.7%1116 Oct 2024
Epic Network Support Ltd116.7%118 Dec 2025
Tilgear116.7%1119 Feb 2025
B&M Waste Services116.7%113 Sept 2025
HQ Communications Group Ltd T/A Invested 116.7%018 Aug 2024
Haas Automation Ltd116.7%0131 Oct 2022

6 awarded procedures across 6 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£1.1mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 4 of 4 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£293k middle valuemoderate · n=4Middle half £158k–£407k.
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
LEG T167 - Waste Services TenderB&M Waste Services3 Sept 20253 yrs · up to 5 yrs£432,875
≈ £144k/yr
Luminate Education Group – LEG T147 – MET HUB Equipment – KCTilgear——£398,361 †
Luminate Education Group - Keighley MET HUB Future Laboratory fit-outMatrix Technology Solutions Ltd——£188,600 †
LEG T185 - Project F - WatchGuard – Renewal & SupportEpic Network Support Ltd8 Dec 20252 yrs£67,088
≈ £34k/yr

Recent procedures

Latest 20 of 20 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
LEG T212 Quarry Hill UPS ReplacementIT services: consultingOpen28 Aug 2026£36,500
LEG T202 Emergency & Mass Evacuation SystemEmergency and security equipmentOpen24 Aug 2026£145,833
LEG T183 CAFM System (Phase 1)Software package and information systemsAwarded / complete24 Jun 2026£100,000
LEG T157 LEG Framework: Curriculum RecruitmentFramework6 lotsRecruitment servicesOpen28 Dec 2025£6,333,333
Luminate Education Group - Tender for the provision of Watchguard - Renewal & Support - Project FIT services: consultingAwarded / complete8 Dec 2025£0
LEG T182 Emergency Mass Evacuation Voice SystemEmergency and security equipmentOpen27 Nov 2025£50,000
Luminate Education Group - Tender for the provision of Waste ServicesRefuse and waste related servicesAwarded / complete25 Sept 2025£625,000
New campus - office to education conversionBuilding completion workPlanned15 May 2025£10,000,000
Construction of a new sports hall facility in LeedsConstruction workPlanned15 May 2025£12,500,000
Construction of new building at campusConstruction workPlanned15 May 2025£16,666,667
Luminate Education Group - MET HUB Equipment KCIndustrial machineryAwarded / complete19 Feb 2025—
Luminate Education Group - Keighley MET HUB Future Laboratory fit-outMachine toolsAwarded / complete16 Oct 2024—
Luminate Education Group - Keighley MET HUB Workshop EquipmentIndustrial machineryOpen9 Aug 2024—
Luminate Education Group - Media Buying, Planning and Digital Marketing Expertise - TenderBusiness services: lawAwarded / complete8 Aug 2024—
Luminate Education Group - Project B Extreme Switching TenderSoftware package and information systemsOpen4 Apr 2024—
Luminate Education Group - ITT Security Operations Centre(SOC) and IT Managed Security Services Provider(MSSP)IT services: consultingOpen3 Oct 2023—
Luminate Education Group - LEG T035 Tender for Workshop MachineryIndustrial machineryAwarded / complete31 Oct 2022—
Luminate Education Group - Infrastructure Project 1NetworksOpen7 Feb 2022£200,000

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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 (£41m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 4 award records on 4 procedures (4 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 2 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: 2 of 5 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 (6 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-108858GB-FTS-109737GB-FTS-121140GB-FTS-43468GB-FTS-63928GB-FTS-93774

Canonical page id: GB-UKPRN-10024962