Solihull College and University Centre: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Further education·Education·West Midlands·Solihull
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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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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
45 Construction work5 procedures · 83%35 Security, fire-fighting, police2 procedures · 33%50 Repair and maintenance services2 procedures · 33%31 Electrical machinery1 procedures · 17%34 Transport equipment and products1 procedures · 17%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances1 procedures · 17%42 Industrial machinery1 procedures · 17%44 Construction structures and materials1 procedures · 17%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 · 6 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 100% (6 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.
- Open 67% (4 notices)
- Selective 33% (2 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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 3 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 6 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 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcema Ltd | 1 | 20% | 1 | 1 | 15 Apr 2026 |
| RMF Training Academy Ltd | 1 | 20% | 0 | 1 | 24 Jun 2021 |
| Complete Detection Systems Limited | 1 | 20% | 0 | 1 | 9 Jun 2023 |
| SIGN SOLUTIONS (SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETING AGENCY) LTD | 1 | 20% | 0 | 1 | 26 Jun 2023 |
| B&M Waste Services | 1 | 20% | 0 | 1 | 4 Aug 2021 |
5 awarded procedures across 5 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
Recent procedures
Latest 14 of 14 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| CCTV installation works and PPMElectrical installation work | Open | 19 Jun 2026 | £235,000 |
| Motor Vehicle Workshop and Brickwork Workshop at Woodlands campusBuilding construction work | Awarded / complete | 15 Apr 2026 | £1,350,000 |
| The provision of furniture and related servicesBedroom | Awarded / complete | 14 Jan 2026 | £740,000 |
| Supply and installation of access control and a barrier system at Woodlands CampusAccess control system | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2025 | £208,334 |
| Skills for Jobs Subcontract deliveryAdult and other education services | Open | 1 Jul 2025 | £500,000 |
| Waste Management Services provisionContainers for waste material | Awarded / complete | 13 Jun 2025 | £200,400 |
| Recruitment Agency ProvisionRecruitment services | Open | 16 Jul 2024 | £5,000,000 |
| Subcontract delivery of Adult Skills Fund programmes (previously AEB) for Construction SkillsAdult and other education services | Open | 3 May 2024 | £15,000,000 |
| Provision of Outsourced Cleaning ServicesCleaning services | Open | 25 Mar 2024 | £1,450,000 |
| Provision of outsourced Deaf support servicesInterpretation services | Awarded / complete | 26 Jun 2023 | — |
| Provision of Fire Safety SystemsBurglar and fire alarms | Awarded / complete | 9 Jun 2023 | — |
| Landscaping works at Stratford-upon-Avon CollegeElectrical installation work | Planned | 9 Feb 2023 | £975,000 |
| Provision of Waste Management ServicesContainers for waste material | Awarded / complete | 4 Aug 2021 | — |
| AEB subcontract provision for Construction Skills TrainingIndustrial training services | Awarded / complete | 24 Jun 2021 | — |
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 (£21m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 1 award records on 1 procedures (1 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 0 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 1 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: 1 of 5 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 (3 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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