Office for Students: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public bodyCentral governmentSouth West EnglandBristol

Official UK PPONPYZM-6681-RPZP

Open now1next deadline 7 Oct 2026

Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months15-6% vs prior 12 months (16)

Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot90% single-bid · 7 bid reports

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 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share19%of 42 awarded procedures · 54 suppliers

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.

42 awarded tenders, 54 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months52 within 6 months

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 award value, 24m£5.4mnet · on 21 of 22 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 76%

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

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

Notice	Deadline	Days left	Published value
Office for Students: Bristol Office Cleaning	7 Oct 2026	7d	£333,333

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

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting15 procedures · 48%

80 Education and training services3 procedures · 10%

72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 6%

90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental1 procedures · 3% · 1 open

48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 3%

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 · 31 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool

How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

Contract 90% (28 notices)
Framework 10% (3 notices)

Procedure route

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 61% (19 notices)
Direct award 26% (8 notices)
Route not published 10% (3 notices)
Limited / restricted 3% (1 notices)

Typical bids per lot

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 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

9robust · n=70% of lots drew a single bid

Deadline → award

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 4 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

32 daysmoderate · n=4

Notice amendments

How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.

Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.

Based on 31 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

317 of 31 notices amended

Award vs estimate

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 13 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

8% below estimaterobust · n=13

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

Supplier	Procedures	Share	Last 24m	Award records	Last activity
KPMGframework/DPS on 1	3	7.1%	3	3	20 Jul 2026
Ecorys UK Limited	3	7.1%	3	3	24 Feb 2026
Public First Limitedframework/DPS on 1	2	4.8%	2	2	6 Jun 2025
Advance HEframework/DPS on 1	2	4.8%	2	2	6 Aug 2026
Shift Insight Ltdframework/DPS on 1	2	4.8%	1	3	21 Mar 2025
IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD	2	4.8%	0	2	30 May 2024
I.F.F RESEARCH LIMITEDframework/DPS on 1	1	2.4%	1	3	21 Mar 2025
YOUGOV PLCframework/DPS on 1	1	2.4%	1	2	21 Mar 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 42 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 54 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)

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.

£5.4mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 21 of 22 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 76%; a further 1 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£17k inc. VAT, kept apart).

Typical single-supplier award (24m)

What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£66k middle valuerobust · n=21Middle half £30k–£242k.

Largest published awards i 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.	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
Provision of support services for TRAC and understanding academic and financial sustainability of the UK higher education sector	KPMG	20 Jul 2026	2 yrs · up to 4 yrs	£2,083,333 ≈ £1.0m/yr
AI Project Delivery & Development	UNIFEYE LTD	11 Feb 2026	1 yrs · up to 2 yrs	£657,000 ≈ £657k/yr
Office for Students: Provision of Support Services for TRAC	KPMG	11 Aug 2025	1 yrs	£530,000 ≈ £530k/yr
Contract for services to evaluate the Office for Students regulation of quality	Ecorys UK Limited	21 Aug 2025	6 yrs · up to 8 yrs	£500,000 ≈ £83k/yr
Contract for Impact Evaluation of the OfS APP approach	Ecorys UK Limited	24 Feb 2026	1.5 yrs · up to 4.8 yrs	£334,588 ≈ £223k/yr

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.
A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 19 of 50 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
Sector AI Report	Advance HE	31 Dec 2026	£1
AI Project Delivery & Development	UNIFEYE LTD	15 Mar 2027	£657,000
Social Listening Tool	Fenix Media Limited t/a Pulsar	17 Aug 2027	£27,000
Contract for Impact Evaluation of the OfS APP approach	Ecorys UK Limited	30 Sept 2027	£334,588
Office for Students: Mental Health Awareness Training	Medigold health consultancy limited	12 Oct 2027	£30,000

Recent procedures

Latest 49 of 49 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
Provision of support services for TRAC and understanding academic and financial sustainability of the UK higher education sectorFinancial management consultancy services	Awarded / complete	21 Sept 2026	£2,083,333
Sector AI Report	Awarded / complete	6 Aug 2026	—
Hard FM ServicesBuilding and facilities management services	Open	4 Aug 2026	£625,000
Office for Students: Contract for Fit and Proper (FPP) checksBusiness services: law	Awarded / complete	30 Jun 2026	£96,000
Equality of Opportunity Risk Register Research and RecommendationsBusiness services: law	Awarded / complete	19 Jun 2026	£33,333
Legal ServicesFramework2 lotsLegal services	Open	28 May 2026	£1,041,667
eProcurement System	Awarded / complete	22 Apr 2026	—
Contract for Impact Evaluation of the OfS APP approachEvaluation consultancy services	Awarded / complete	8 Apr 2026	£345,000
AI Project Delivery & DevelopmentSoftware programming and consultancy services	Awarded / complete	17 Mar 2026	£833,333
AI Project Delivery & DevelopmentSoftware programming and consultancy services	Planning	2 Jan 2026	£833,333
Efficiency and Value for Money Consultancy	Awarded / complete	4 Dec 2025	—
Office for Students: Provision of Support Services for TRAC	Awarded / complete	3 Nov 2025	—
Office for Students: Mental Health Awareness TrainingTraining services	Awarded / complete	30 Oct 2025	£60,000
Contract for services to evaluate the Office for Students regulation of qualityEvaluation consultancy services	Awarded / complete	9 Oct 2025	£500,000
Social Listening Tool	Awarded / complete	24 Sept 2025	—
Research and recommendations on collaborative outreachEvaluation consultancy services	Awarded / complete	11 Sept 2025	£33,333
Litigation support	Awarded / complete	1 Sept 2025	—
Board DevelopmentBusiness services: law	Awarded / complete	1 Sept 2025	£50,000
Board DevelopmentBusiness services: law	Planning	20 Jun 2025	£50,000
Contract for services to evaluate the Office for Students regulation of qualityEvaluation consultancy services	Planning	12 Jun 2025	£600,000

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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 (£7.4m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 26 award records on 24 procedures (22 to a single canonical supplier, 4 multi-supplier). 15 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 1 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
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: 19 of 50 published contracts carry a period end; 5 end within 18 months, 2 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-125770GB-FTS-142893GB-FTS-4137GB-FTS-60699GB-FTS-65469GB-FTS-65470

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PYZM-6681-RPZP