Office for Students: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public body·Central government·South West England·Bristol
Official UK PPONPYZM-6681-RPZP
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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 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.
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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.
42 awarded tenders, 54 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.
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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 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
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 open48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 3%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 · 31 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.
- Contract 90% (28 notices)
- Framework 10% (3 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 61% (19 notices)
- Direct award 26% (8 notices)
- Route not published 10% (3 notices)
- Limited / restricted 3% (1 notices)
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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 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
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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 31 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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.
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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| KPMG | 3 | 7.1% | 3 | 3 | 20 Jul 2026 |
| Ecorys UK Limited | 3 | 7.1% | 3 | 3 | 24 Feb 2026 |
| Public First Limited | 2 | 4.8% | 2 | 2 | 6 Jun 2025 |
| Advance HE | 2 | 4.8% | 2 | 2 | 6 Aug 2026 |
| Shift Insight Ltd | 2 | 4.8% | 1 | 3 | 21 Mar 2025 |
| IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD | 2 | 4.8% | 0 | 2 | 30 May 2024 |
| I.F.F RESEARCH LIMITED | 1 | 2.4% | 1 | 3 | 21 Mar 2025 |
| YOUGOV PLC | 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.
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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.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe 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 |
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| 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 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 · 19 of 50 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| 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
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.
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