Northern Regional College: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·Northern Ireland·Ballymena
Official UK PPONPCDC-7356-WJNZ
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
42 Industrial machinery1 procedures · 50%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedures · 50%How they buy
Last 24 months · 2 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
- Contract 100% (2 notices)
- Open 100% (2 notices)
Who wins here
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heron Bros. Ltd. | 4 | 50% | 0 | 4 | 4 Jun 2024 |
| Rumour Mill Creative Communications | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 22 Nov 2024 |
| Mills CNC Limited | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 6 Feb 2026 |
| T.I. MACHINERY SALES LIMITED | 1 | 12.5% | 0 | 1 | 15 Feb 2022 |
| DESIGN ETHOS LTD | 1 | 12.5% | 0 | 1 | 22 Dec 2021 |
8 awarded procedures across 5 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID 5314168 - DfE - NRC - Provision of Public Relations, Media Relations and Communication Services | Rumour Mill Creative Communications | — | — | £250,000 † |
| ID 6183310 - DFE - NORTHERN REGIONAL COLLEGE - PURCHASE OF 3 AXIS CNC MILLING CENTRES | Mills CNC Limited | 6 Feb 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £223,896 ≈ £224k/yr |
Contracts ending
Published end dates only · 1 of 8 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| ID 6183310 - DFE - NORTHERN REGIONAL COLLEGE - PURCHASE OF 3 AXIS CNC MILLING CENTRES | Mills CNC Limited | 22 Feb 2027 | £223,896 |
Recent procedures
Latest 8 of 8 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 (£220k, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 2 award records on 2 procedures (2 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). Typical award uses single-supplier VAT-exclusive GBP values below £5bn, excludes framework/DPS ceilings and — as a heuristic for republished framework totals — any amount repeated three or more times inside this authority’s 24-month awards; 1 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Contract end dates: 1 of 8 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (7 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PCDC-7356-WJNZ