University of Northumbria at Newcastle: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

DfE school register: Higher education institutionsEducationNorth East EnglandNewcastle upon Tyne

Official UK PPONPNBP-4638-XHJPWebsitenorthumbria.ac.uk ↗

Open now0no live 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.

Notices, last 12 months26+44% vs prior 12 months (18)
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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 share15%of 52 awarded procedures · 128 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.

52 awarded tenders, 128 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months53 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£1.3mnet · on 7 of 7 published values · top 5 = 91%
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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.

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 · 44 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.

  • Contract91%(40 notices)
    40 of 44 notices are Contract (91%).
  • Framework9%(4 notices)
    4 of 44 notices are Framework (9%).
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.

  • Limited / restricted30%(13 notices)
    13 of 44 notices are Limited / restricted (30%).
  • Direct award25%(11 notices)
    11 of 44 notices are Direct award (25%).
  • Open20%(9 notices)
    9 of 44 notices are Open (20%).
  • Route not published20%(9 notices)
    9 of 44 notices are Route not published (20%).
  • Selective5%(2 notices)
    2 of 44 notices are Selective (5%).
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.

1.5indicative · n=250% of lots drew a single bid
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 44 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

05 of 44 notices amended

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
Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited35.8%33—
Softcat Plcframework/DPS on 135.8%23—
Wagstaff Bros Limited23.8%2219 Aug 2026
BMG LABTECH LIMITED23.8%2228 Jan 2026
Global Life Sciences Solutions Operations UK Ltd23.8%2227 Jan 2026
Rider Levett Bucknall Ltdframework/DPS on 223.8%13—
Atkins Limitedframework/DPS on 223.8%03—
Esh Constructionframework/DPS on 223.8%02—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 15% of 52 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 128 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.

£1.3mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 7 of 7 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 91%; a further 15 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.

£221k middle valuerobust · n=7Middle half £109k–£276k.
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
Call-Off terms and conditions for the supply of Equipment, and/or Materials and/or ServicesIllumina Cambridge Ltd——£300,000 †
OXFORD INSTRUMENTS UK - TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF QUOTATION AND SALE FOR GOODS AND SERVICES - May 2020 onwardsOxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited——£290,000 †
NEEST Aruba Network Equipment under Lot 5 JISC Network Equipment FrameworkSoftcat Plc——£262,498 †
Call-Off terms and conditions for the supply of High Value Laboratory EquipmentFEI UK Limited——£220,820 †
Glass Meeting Pods for Coach Lane CampusWagstaff Bros Limited—2 mo£129,166 †

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 · 26 of 60 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 82 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Independent Evaluation of the AHRC Creative Communities ProgrammeAwarded / complete13 Oct 2026—
Low-pressure Fischer-Tropsch reactorAwarded / complete8 Oct 2026—
T25/0037 - Apple Equipment and Associated ServicesFrameworkComputer equipment and suppliesAwarded / complete10 Sept 2026£200,000,000
Glass Meeting Pods for Coach Lane CampusAwarded / complete1 Sept 2026—
Glass Meeting Pods for Coach Lane CampusAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026—
Service and Maintenance Contract for Genomic Sequencing PlatformAwarded / complete6 Jul 2026—
Service & Maintenance Contract for Orbitrap ID-X Tribrid Mass SpectrometerAwarded / complete22 Jun 2026—
Acoustic Release systemsAwarded / complete18 Jun 2026—
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)Awarded / complete15 Jun 2026—
Single-Point Acoustic Doppler Current Meters x 7Awarded / complete11 Jun 2026—
Moored Conductivity, Temperature, and Depth sensorsAwarded / complete4 Jun 2026—
T23/0003 (previously T22/0085) CHASE project Lead Design role & architectural servicesArchitectural design servicesAwarded / complete29 Apr 2026£5,000,000
Terrestrial laser scannerAwarded / complete7 Apr 2026—
Drone Mapping/Surveying SystemAwarded / complete17 Mar 2026—
Measurement of saliva samplesAwarded / complete6 Mar 2026—
Protein Purification SystemAwarded / complete13 Feb 2026—
Multi-mode Plate ReaderAwarded / complete13 Feb 2026—
Azure Cloud SaaSFrameworkApplication service providersAwarded / complete7 Feb 2026—
Theia ALD system annual service contractAwarded / complete5 Feb 2026—
Polymer processing equipmentAwarded / complete4 Feb 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. 26 of 60 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.