Office for Students: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public body·Central government·South West England·Bristol
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Based on 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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198 awarded tenders, 151 different suppliers.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leadership, management and professional skills development Open framework | 17 Nov 2026 | 2d | £1,273,332 |
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting41 procedures · 152%48 Software package and information systems11 procedures · 41%80 Education and training services5 procedures · 19% · 1 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 procedures · 11%32 Radio, television, communication2 procedures · 7%73 Research and development services2 procedures · 7%98 Other community, social and personal services2 procedures · 7%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedure · 4%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 27 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract93%(25 notices)
25 of 27 notices are Contract (93%).Framework7%(2 notices)
2 of 27 notices are Framework (7%).
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Open52%(14 notices)
14 of 27 notices are Open (52%).Direct award30%(8 notices)
8 of 27 notices are Direct award (30%).Route not published11%(3 notices)
3 of 27 notices are Route not published (11%).Limited / restricted4%(1 notice)
1 of 27 notices is Limited / restricted (4%).Selective4%(1 notice)
1 of 27 notices is Selective (4%).
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Based on 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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Based on 6 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 27 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 4 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
Who wins herei
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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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| Academia Ltd | 6 | 3% | 4 | 6 | 5 Mar 2026 |
| Savanta Group Limited | 6 | 3% | 3 | 7 | 11 May 2026 |
| Softcat Plc | 6 | 3% | 3 | 6 | 29 Jan 2026 |
| Microsoft Ltd | 5 | 2.5% | 2 | 5 | 23 Feb 2026 |
| Teneo Financial Advisory Limited | 4 | 2% | 3 | 4 | 23 Feb 2026 |
| KPMG LLP | 4 | 2% | 0 | 4 | 31 Jul 2024 |
| Methods Business & Digital Technology Ltd | 4 | 2% | 0 | 4 | 5 Sept 2023 |
| Deloitte LLP | 3 | 1.5% | 3 | 3 | 13 Apr 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 9% of 198 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 151 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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Largest published awards i | 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 |
| Hard FM Services | Shield Mechanical, Electrical and Facilities Services Ltd | 27 Oct 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £500,000 ≈ £167k/yr |
Contracts endingi
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214 of 222 contracts carry an end date, 17 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| GB-Bristol: Services to support Organisation Design | PA CONSULTING SERVICES LTD | 20 Nov 2026 | £214,500 |
| Office for Students - Bristol Office Cleaning | Albany Cleaning Solutions | 23 Nov 2026 estimated | £304,000 |
| GB-Bristol: Tableau Licensing | Academia Ltd | 19 Dec 2026 | £74,613 |
| GB-Bristol: IT Desktop Solutions | CCS Media Ltd | 28 Dec 2026 | £735,000 |
| Sector AI Report | Advance HE | 31 Dec 2026 | £1 |
| GB-Bristol: Amazon Business | Amazon EU S.à r.l. | 23 Jan 2027 | £80,000 |
| GB-Bristol: Command and House Papers Service | HH Associates Ltd | 2 Feb 2027 | £10,000 |
| Office for Students: Executive Search Services | GatenbySanderson Limited | 7 Feb 2027 estimated | £450,000 |
| Managed Cyber Security Service for the Office for Students | ITHQ Ltd | 26 Feb 2027 estimated | £354,712 |
| Office for Students: Recruitment Advertising Services | Penna plc | 27 Feb 2027 estimated | £400,000 |
Soonest 10 of 42 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 49 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Consultation analysisMarket and economic research; polling and statistics | Awarded / complete | 28 Oct 2022 | £450,000 |
| Office for Students - Contract for Learning in relation to Regulatory Theory and its applicationSpecialist training services | Awarded / complete | 1 Sept 2022 | £150,000 |
| Office for Students - Contract for Student mental health 'what works' projectEvaluation consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 13 Jun 2022 | £300,000 |
| Contract for an employer broker service for the Office for Students Postgraduate Conversion Course ProgrammeBusiness services: law | Awarded / complete | 19 May 2022 | £108,333 |
| Managed Cyber Security Service for the Office for StudentsIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 25 Mar 2022 | £320,000 |
| Office for Students - Hard Facilities Management ServicesBuilding and facilities management services | Awarded / complete | 9 Mar 2022 | £1,000,000 |
| Hosting and Maintenance of Office for Students WebsiteIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 12 Aug 2021 | £296,000 |
| Workday Support ServicesSoftware programming and consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Jul 2021 | £250,000 |
| Evaluation of the joint RE and OfS funding competition to improve access and participation for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students in postgraduate research studyEvaluation consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 28 May 2021 | — |
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Contracts Finder adds 185 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.
About this data
- 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. 214 of 222 published contracts have an end date; 17 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
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