North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Other public body·North West England·Salford·Ran 1 procurement for other authorities·Central purchasing body on 7 of 11 notices
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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.
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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.
22 awarded tenders, 196 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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
39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances5 procedures · 45%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals4 procedures · 36%18 Clothing, footwear, bags2 procedures · 18%44 Construction structures and materials2 procedures · 18%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 18%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental2 procedures · 18%31 Electrical machinery1 procedures · 9%34 Transport equipment and products1 procedures · 9%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 · 11 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.
Framework82%(9 notices)
9 of 11 notices are Framework (82%).Contract18%(2 notices)
2 of 11 notices are Contract (18%).
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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.
Open55%(6 notices)
6 of 11 notices are Open (55%).Route not published45%(5 notices)
5 of 11 notices are Route not published (45%).
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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 11 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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| Banner Group Limited | 4 | 18.2% | 2 | 5 | — |
| Rexel UK Limited | 3 | 13.6% | 1 | 19 | — |
| Lyreco UK Limited | 3 | 13.6% | 1 | 7 | — |
| Proactive UK LTD | 3 | 13.6% | 0 | 3 | — |
| Personnel Hygiene Services Ltd T/A PHS Group Plc | 2 | 9.1% | 1 | 16 | — |
| Rentokil Initial UK Ltd | 2 | 9.1% | 1 | 15 | — |
| Thomas Kneale & Co Ltd | 2 | 9.1% | 1 | 7 | — |
| KPMG | 2 | 9.1% | 1 | 4 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 27% of 22 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 196 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
Contracts endingi
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.
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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 · 68 of 137 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photographic Equipment & Consumables | Creative Productions Limited, Proactive UK LTD, Park Cameras Limited +2 | 18 Feb 2028 | £18,000,000 |
| Lots 1-13 Washroom Services | Personnel Hygiene Services Ltd T/A PHS Group Plc | 31 Mar 2028 | £14,000,000 |
| Lots 1-13 Washroom Services | Elis UK Ltd (Formerly Berendsen UK Ltd) | 31 Mar 2028 | £14,000,000 |
| Lots 1-13 Washroom Services | Wessex Products (Leasing) Limited | 31 Mar 2028 | £14,000,000 |
| Lots 1-13 Washroom Services | Hygienic Holdings LTD | 31 Mar 2028 | £14,000,000 |
| Lots 1-13 Washroom Services | Rentokil Initial UK Ltd | 31 Mar 2028 | £14,000,000 |
| Lot 14 Period Dignity Solutions | Personnel Hygiene Services Ltd T/A PHS Group Plc | 31 Mar 2028 | £14,000,000 |
| Lot 14 Period Dignity Solutions | Banner Group Limited | 31 Mar 2028 | £14,000,000 |
| Lot 14 Period Dignity Solutions | Bunzl UK Ltd trading as Greenham | 31 Mar 2028 | £14,000,000 |
| Lot 14 Period Dignity Solutions | Eco Hygiene Care Ltd | 31 Mar 2028 | £14,000,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 43 of 42 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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| IT Equipment Reuse, Recycling and DisposalComputer-related professional services | Open | 6 Aug 2021 | £10,000,000 |
| Global Workforce Management Services Lot 4 Global Workforce Management ServicesBusiness services: law | Awarded / complete | 11 Jun 2021 | £20,000,000 |
| Washroom ServicesCleaning and sanitation services | Awarded / complete | 25 May 2021 | £15,000,000 |
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. 68 of 137 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.