OPEN UNIVERSITY(THE): Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·South East England·MILTON KEYNES
Find a Tender organisation id117060
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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 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.
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, consulting3 procedures · 75%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 procedures · 25%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 · 4 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 75% (3 notices)
- Framework 25% (1 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.
- Limited / restricted 75% (3 notices)
- Route not published 25% (1 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 4 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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| Visual Electronic Services Ltd | 2 | 25% | 0 | 2 | 25 Feb 2022 |
| Qubit Labs | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 2 | 14 Feb 2025 |
| MATRIX GRAPHICS LIMITED | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 2 | 4 Feb 2025 |
| Norman Managed Services | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 2 | 16 Dec 2024 |
| 23RED LIMITED | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 27 Jan 2025 |
| Amnet ContentSource Pvt. Ltd | 1 | 12.5% | 0 | 1 | 8 Jan 2024 |
| Integra Software Services Private Limited | 1 | 12.5% | 0 | 1 | 8 Jan 2024 |
| KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. | 1 | 12.5% | 0 | 1 | 8 Jan 2024 |
8 awarded procedures across 10 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
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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 Pan UK Integrated Comms - Public Relations (B2B, B2C) & Social Media Strategy/PRO/ OJEU/2020 | 23RED LIMITED | — | 6 mo | £2,300,000 † |
| Provision of Out of hours support for the computing and distribution Helpdesk | Norman Managed Services | — | — | £550,000 † |
| Provision of software development and associated activities | Qubit Labs | — | — | £450,000 † |
| Provision of Out of hours support for the computing and distribution Helpdesk | Norman Managed Services | — | — | £325,000 † |
| Provision of software development and associated activities | Qubit Labs | — | — | £300,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 11 of 11 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Provision of software development and associated activitiesCustom software development services | Awarded / complete | 14 Feb 2025 | — |
| Production Agency & Brand HubMarketing services | Awarded / complete | 4 Feb 2025 | — |
| Provision of Out of hours support for the computing and distribution HelpdeskCall centre | Awarded / complete | 16 Dec 2024 | — |
| Prospectus Services/RES/PRO/2024Marketing services | Awarded / complete | 5 Jul 2024 | — |
| The Open University learning content services/OPEN/PRO/2023Design support services | Awarded / complete | 8 Jan 2024 | — |
| Contract for Security MaintenanceClosed-circuit surveillance system | Awarded / complete | 25 Feb 2022 | — |
| Contract for Security MaintenanceClosed-circuit surveillance system | Awarded / complete | 25 Feb 2022 | — |
| External Assurance Services/PRO/PIN/2021Auditing services | Planned | 8 Jul 2021 | — |
| Associate Lecturer Workload Management SystemIndustry specific software package | Planned | 28 May 2021 | £1,000,000 |
| Information Rights Software/PRO/PIN/2021Security software package | Planned | 30 Mar 2021 | — |
| Provision of Pan UK Integrated Comms - Public Relations (B2B, B2C) & Social Media Strategy/PRO/ OJEU/2020Public relations services | Not published | 27 Jan 2025 | — |
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 (£1.0m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 7 award records on 4 procedures (7 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 5 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: 1 of 14 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 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.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-117060