South & City College Birmingham: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Further education·Education·West Midlands·Birmingham
Find a Tender organisation id157871
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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
32 Radio, television, communication1 procedures · 50%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 50%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 50%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 · 2 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 50% (1 notices)
- Framework 50% (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 50% (1 notices)
- Selective 50% (1 notices)
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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| GVAV Limited | 1 | 25% | 1 | 3 | 25 Nov 2025 |
| Mayne Communications Ltd | 1 | 25% | 1 | 2 | 25 Nov 2025 |
| Universal AV Services Ltd | 1 | 25% | 1 | 2 | 25 Nov 2025 |
| Julian Roche Associates Limited (Trading as Roche Audio Visual) | 1 | 25% | 1 | 2 | 25 Nov 2025 |
| Pure Audio Visual Ltd | 1 | 25% | 1 | 2 | 25 Nov 2025 |
| Softcat Plc | 1 | 25% | 1 | 1 | 13 Aug 2025 |
| IDNS Ltd | 1 | 25% | 1 | 1 | 25 Nov 2025 |
| Information Data & Network Supplies Ltd | 1 | 25% | 1 | 1 | 25 Nov 2025 |
4 awarded procedures across 15 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.
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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| HR Information System | Softcat Plc | — | — | £640,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 9 of 9 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| NWUPC Audio Visual FrameworkAudio-visual equipment | Awarded / complete | 25 Nov 2025 | £64,700,000 |
| HR Information SystemSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2025 | — |
| Agency Staff Supply TenderSupply services of personnel including temporary staff | Open | 13 Apr 2023 | £15,000,000 |
| Communication Support WorkerSupply services of personnel including temporary staff | Open | 3 Apr 2023 | £195,000 |
| Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Maintenance ServicesMechanical and electrical engineering services | Open | 30 Mar 2023 | £450,000 |
| Keyholding & Cover GuardingSecurity services | Open | 30 Mar 2023 | £600,000 |
| Cloud Based Financial Management & Accounting SoftwareFinancial analysis and accounting software package | Open | 3 Oct 2022 | £250,000 |
| External Audit ServicesAuditing services | Awarded / complete | 18 May 2022 | — |
| Internal Audit ServicesInternal audit services | Awarded / complete | 18 May 2022 | — |
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 (£16m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 5 award records on 2 procedures (3 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier). 1 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 7 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-157871