Sheffield Hallam University: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·Yorkshire and the Humber·Sheffield
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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 6 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.
125 awarded tenders, 119 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.
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
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet16 procedures · 21%48 Software package and information systems13 procedures · 17%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting8 procedures · 10%80 Education and training services4 procedures · 5%32 Radio, television, communication3 procedures · 4%18 Clothing, footwear, bags2 procedures · 3%30 Office and computing machinery2 procedures · 3%38 Laboratory, optical and precision2 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 · 78 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 97% (76 notices)
- Framework 3% (2 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 46% (36 notices)
- Direct award 24% (19 notices)
- Open 13% (10 notices)
- Route not published 10% (8 notices)
- Selective 6% (5 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 6 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 5 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 78 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 4 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| Academia Ltd | 4 | 3.2% | 3 | 4 | 21 Sept 2026 |
| Waters Ltd | 3 | 2.4% | 1 | 3 | 20 Feb 2026 |
| Logicalis UK Limited | 2 | 1.6% | 2 | 2 | 3 Aug 2026 |
| The Information Lab | 2 | 1.6% | 2 | 2 | 28 Aug 2026 |
| KHIPU NETWORKS LIMITED | 2 | 1.6% | 2 | 2 | 29 Sept 2025 |
| BRUKER UK LIMITED | 2 | 1.6% | 2 | 2 | 20 Feb 2026 |
| Phoenix Software Ltd | 2 | 1.6% | 1 | 2 | 8 Nov 2024 |
| Canon UK Ltd | 2 | 1.6% | 1 | 2 | 2 Dec 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 125 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 119 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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| Media Planning and Buying for Reputation, Business Engagement and Student Recruitment Marketing | Havas People Ltd | 5 Jan 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £10,416,667 ≈ £3.5m/yr |
| Microsoft Software Licensing (EES) | Phoenix Software Ltd | — | — | £7,910,408 † |
| 2324-80-EST- CATERING CONCESSION CONTRACT OPPORTUNITY FOR HOWARD STREET BUILDING | LOOK ME UP LTD T/A HYGGE CAFES | — | — | £5,174,640 † |
| 2324-56-FDR-JZ Security Services | Constant Security Services | — | — | £4,372,892 † |
| 2425-44-DTS-AT Student Records System (SITS) | Tribal Education Limited | — | — | £2,505,780 † |
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 · 25 of 136 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Executive Recruitment Services | Saxton Bampfylde Hever Ltd | 31 Oct 2026 | £214,903 |
| Purchasing of a plagiarism tool | Turnitin, LLC | 1 Aug 2027 | £149,419 |
| Servohydraulic Fatigue Testing Machine | Instron Division of ITW Ltd | 31 Oct 2027 | £259,258 |
| Overseas Market Development - South East Asia | NATION PRIDE SDN BHD | 4 Nov 2027 | £1,893,672 |
| Converis Research Management System, Support and Maintenance | CLARIVATE ANALYTICS | 31 Dec 2027 | £100,756 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 153 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 (£183m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 65 award records on 64 procedures (65 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 44 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 10 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: 25 of 136 published contracts carry a period end; 5 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (8 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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