Queens University Belfast: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

EducationNorthern IrelandBelfast

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Open now0no live notices
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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.

Notices, last 12 months0-100% vs prior 12 months (3)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Typical bids per lot166.7% single-bid · 3 bid reports
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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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Contracts ending ≤18 months1none within 6 months · 1 estimated
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

Published award value, 24m£2.0mnet · on 3 of 3 published values · top 5 = 100%
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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.

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

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

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

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

  • Contract100%(3 notices)
    3 of 3 notices are Contract (100%).
Procedure route
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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.

  • Open100%(3 notices)
    3 of 3 notices are Open (100%).
Typical bids per lot
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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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

1moderate · n=366.7% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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 3 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

13 of 3 notices amended

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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD111.1%11—
LabPlan LTd111.1%11—
Life Technologies Ltd111.1%11—
10X Genomics111.1%01—
Imagine Eyes111.1%01—
Flywire Payments Ltd111.1%01—
Sphere Fluidics111.1%01—
Gordons Electrical111.1%01—

9 awarded procedures across 9 suppliers: too few to describe concentration.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£2.0mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 3 of 3 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 100%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£820k middle valuemoderate · n=3Middle half £486k–£910k.
Largest published awards
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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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Supply, Delivery, Installation and Maintenance of high content Imaging equipment, capable of temperature and humidity control using a minimum of 96-384 well throughput including consumables and anyLife Technologies Ltd——£1,000,000 †
QUB/2601/25 Contract for the supply, delivery & Installation of an Acoustic Liquid Handling SystemLabPlan LTd——£820,000 †
Research Contractor to Conduct the Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) SurveyIPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD——£152,000 †

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.

An end date does not confirm a new procurement.

9 of 9 contracts carry an end date, 9 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
Tuition Fee Payment Acceptance PlatformFlywire Payments Ltd26 Oct 2027 estimated£1,000,000

Recent procedures

Latest 12 of 12 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Research Contractor to Conduct the Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) SurveySurvey conduction servicesAwarded / complete22 May 2025—
QUB/2601/25 Contract for the supply of an Acoustic Liquid Handling SystemAnalysis apparatusAwarded / complete8 Apr 2025—
QUB/2606/24 Supply of high content Imaging equipment, capable of temperature and humidity control using a minimum of 96-384 well throughput including consumables and any ancillary items.Imaging equipment for medicalAwarded / complete8 Apr 2025—
QUB/2598/24 - Contract for the Supply of a microfluidic system for single cell sorting and antibody discovery workflows and any ancillary or consumables products.Medical equipmentsAwarded / complete6 Dec 2024—
QUB/2663/24 Contract for the Supply, Delivery, Maintenance and Associated Consumables of Two Autoclaves for the School of Pharmacy.AutoclavesOpen18 Oct 2024—
QUB/2485/23 Contract for for a Compact Multi-modal and Multi-scale Retinal Imaging SystemImaging equipment for medicalAwarded / complete14 May 2024—
QUB/2469/23 Contract for Supply, Delivery, Installation, Commissioning, Maintenance and Consumables for Spatial Transcriptomic EquipmentBiomedical equipmentAwarded / complete8 Feb 2024—
QUB/2428/23 - Contract for Supply, Delivery, Installation, Commissioning, Maintenance and Consumables for a triple quadrupole mass spectrometry systemMass spectrometerAwarded / complete24 Oct 2023—
QUB/2262/22 Tuition Fee Payment Acceptance PlatformFinancial information systemsAwarded / complete22 Feb 2023—
QUB/2194/21 Contract for the Supply, Delivery, Installation, Commissioning, Maintenance and Associated Consumables for a Digital Pathology ScannerMedical equipmentsOpen5 Nov 2021—
QUB/2022/21 Computer Network ComponentsNetwork componentsAwarded / complete5 May 2021—
QUB/2062/21 Replacement Library Access SystemAccess gatesUnsuccessful28 Apr 2021—

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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. 9 of 9 published contracts have an end date; 9 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.
  • 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.