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 8 of 11 notices
Official UK PPONPLZJ-2257-TGCV
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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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, 197 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.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 18%22 Printed matter and related products1 procedures · 9%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 9%34 Transport equipment and products1 procedures · 9%35 Security, fire-fighting, police1 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.
- Framework 82% (9 notices)
- Contract 18% (2 notices)
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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 64% (7 notices)
- Route not published 36% (4 notices)
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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% | 3 | 5 | 13 Aug 2025 |
| Lyreco UK Limited | 3 | 13.6% | 2 | 7 | 13 Aug 2025 |
| Rexel UK Limited | 3 | 13.6% | 1 | 19 | 13 Aug 2025 |
| Proactive UK LTD | 3 | 13.6% | 0 | 3 | 5 Mar 2024 |
| Personnel Hygiene Services Ltd T/A PHS Group Plc | 2 | 9.1% | 1 | 16 | 29 May 2025 |
| Rentokil Initial UK Ltd | 2 | 9.1% | 1 | 15 | 29 May 2025 |
| Thomas Kneale & Co Ltd | 2 | 9.1% | 1 | 7 | 25 Mar 2026 |
| KPMG | 2 | 9.1% | 1 | 4 | 26 Aug 2025 |
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); 197 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.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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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.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 41 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 |
Recent procedures
Latest 42 of 41 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Value Laboratory EquipmentChecking and testing apparatus | Planning | 2 Oct 2026 | £150,000,000 |
| eMarketplace to Facilitate Tailend SpendElectronic marketplace retailing services | Awarded / complete | 3 Jul 2026 | £50,000,000 |
| Residential Textiles and Linen ServicesArticles for the bathroom and kitchen | Awarded / complete | 25 Mar 2026 | — |
| Sustainable Fleet SolutionsMotor vehicles | Planning | 7 Nov 2025 | £15,000,000 |
| Pension Scheme (Defined Contribution) and Employee BenefitsAccident and health insurance services | Awarded / complete | 29 Aug 2025 | £19,000,000 |
| Global Mobility ServicesBusiness services: law | Awarded / complete | 26 Aug 2025 | £9,000,000 |
| Medical Simulation and Training EquipmentDental and subspecialty instruments and devices | Awarded / complete | 14 Aug 2025 | — |
| White Goods & Associated Products and ServicesBoiling rings | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2025 | £11,000,000 |
| Washroom Services and Period Dignity SolutionsCleaning and sanitation services | Awarded / complete | 29 May 2025 | — |
| Medical Simulation and Training Equipment.Medical equipments | Planned | 4 Dec 2024 | — |
| Framework Agreement for Office, Paper, EOS & Library Supplies (OPELS)Ballpoint pens | Awarded / complete | 26 Nov 2024 | — |
| White Goods and Associated Electrical AppliancesDomestic appliances | Planned | 20 Nov 2024 | £10,000,000 |
| Washroom Services and Period Dignity SolutionsSanitary towels or tampons | Planned | 11 Sept 2024 | — |
| Facilities ServicesGas appliance maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 3 Sept 2024 | — |
| Electronic Components & Associated ProductsAccumulators | Awarded / complete | 27 Aug 2024 | £88,000,000 |
| Residential Textiles, Student Start Packs and Window CoveringsBed linen | Planned | 22 Aug 2024 | £4,000,000 |
| Global Workforce Mobility ServicesBusiness services: law | Planned | 13 Aug 2024 | £4,000,000 |
| Cleaning SolutionsAccessories for vacuum cleaners | Awarded / complete | 24 May 2024 | — |
| Facilities ServicesGas appliance maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 15 May 2024 | — |
| Photographic Equipment & ConsumablesApparatus for photographic laboratories | Awarded / complete | 5 Mar 2024 | £18,000,000 |
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 (£98m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 34 award records on 7 procedures (16 to a single canonical supplier, 18 multi-supplier). 0 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: 41 of 137 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (27 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
+3 further identifiers not listed here.
Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PLZJ-2257-TGCV