Queen's University Belfast: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Education·Northern Ireland·Belfast
Registry IDGB-NIC-101788
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 70 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.
147 awarded tenders, 203 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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 260068 Contract for the supply, delivery, commission, installation, consumables, & maintenance of a Twin-Screw Extruder for Compounding and Recycling | 12 Nov 2026 | 22d | £608,625 |
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
38 Laboratory, optical and precision37 procedures · 42%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting12 procedures · 13%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals10 procedures · 11%42 Industrial machinery9 procedures · 10% · 1 open31 Electrical machinery6 procedures · 7%50 Repair and maintenance services6 procedures · 7%85 Health and social work services6 procedures · 7%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances3 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 · 89 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.
Contract98%(87 notices)
87 of 89 notices are Contract (98%).Framework2%(2 notices)
2 of 89 notices are Framework (2%).
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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.
Open88%(78 notices)
78 of 89 notices are Open (88%).Route not published8%(7 notices)
7 of 89 notices are Route not published (8%).Direct award3%(3 notices)
3 of 89 notices are Direct award (3%).Selective1%(1 notices)
1 of 89 notices are Selective (1%).
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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 70 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 45 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 89 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 22 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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| Particular Sciences Ltd | 2 | 1.4% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Premier Scientific Ltd | 2 | 1.4% | 1 | 8 | — |
| Dalkia Scotshield Limited | 2 | 1.4% | 1 | 2 | 4 Jun 2026 |
| VIS Security Solutions Limited | 2 | 1.4% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Sartorius UK Limited | 2 | 1.4% | 1 | 2 | 22 Jun 2026 |
| Waters Ltd | 2 | 1.4% | 1 | 2 | — |
| Bidvest Noonan (UK) Limited | 2 | 1.4% | 1 | 2 | — |
| AfaraEd | 2 | 1.4% | 1 | 2 | 10 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 4% of 147 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 203 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| Measured Term Contract for Building, Mechanical and Electrical Minor Works and Maintenance Services | DOWN DEVELOPMENTS LTD | — | — | £12,266,046 † |
| 250229 Design, Supply, Delivery, Installation and Maintenance of an Agile Multifunctional Composite Automation Cell | Electroimpact UK, Ltd | 3 Dec 2025 | 5 yrs · up to 15.1 yrs | £11,000,452 ≈ £2.2m/yr |
| Provision of Campus Security Services | Bidvest Noonan (UK) Limited | — | — | £7,926,884 † |
| Contract for Advertising and Communication Campaigns (Rest of World Markets), Lot 1 – Appointment of an International Digital Marketing and Communications Partner | Akerolabs Ltd | — | — | £3,500,000 † |
| QUB/2689/24 Contract for Managed Telecommunications Service for Student Accommodation Wi-Fi and Broadband | Wifinity Ltd | — | — | £3,000,000 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Published end dates only · 43 of 189 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 12 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 200 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- 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. 43 of 189 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.