The City of Liverpool College: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Further education·Education·North West England·The Learning Exchange, Liverpool
Registry IDGB-UKPRN-10003955
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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 12 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.
46 awarded tenders, 58 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.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| The City of Liverpool College Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) Marketing and Communications | 31 Jul 2027 | 304d | £150,000 |
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting6 procedures · 6% · 1 open45 Construction work5 procedures · 5%50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 4%44 Construction structures and materials3 procedures · 3%51 Installation services (except software)3 procedures · 3%80 Education and training services3 procedures · 3%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 1%32 Radio, television, communication1 procedures · 1%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 · 94 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 95% (89 notices)
- Framework 4% (4 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 1% (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.
- Direct award 67% (63 notices)
- Open 17% (16 notices)
- Route not published 6% (6 notices)
- Selective 5% (5 notices)
- Limited / restricted 4% (4 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 12 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 12 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 94 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 6 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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| Krol Corlett Construction Limited | 4 | 8.7% | 3 | 5 | 12 Aug 2026 |
| Kimpton | 3 | 6.5% | 3 | 4 | 22 Jun 2026 |
| Frank Rogers Building Contractor Ltd | 2 | 4.3% | 2 | 3 | 10 Jul 2026 |
| THE OPEN UNIVERSITY | 2 | 4.3% | 2 | 2 | 6 Nov 2025 |
| City & Guilds of London Institute | 2 | 4.3% | 2 | 2 | 6 Aug 2026 |
| Personnel Hygiene Services Ltd T/A PHS Group Plc | 2 | 4.3% | 2 | 2 | 24 Apr 2025 |
| National Electrotechnical Training | 2 | 4.3% | 2 | 2 | 6 Nov 2025 |
| Pearson Education Limited | 2 | 4.3% | 2 | 2 | 6 Aug 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 15% of 46 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 58 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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| Exam Boards Awarding Body | Pearson Education Limited | 6 Aug 2026 | 1 yrs | £1,280,898 ≈ £1.3m/yr |
| Legal Services to The City of Liverpool College (Inclusive of Group Companies) | Hill Dickinson LLP | 11 Jun 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £800,000 ≈ £267k/yr |
| Subcontracting for Delivery of Devolved Adult Skills Fund LCRCA | Sysco Business Services | — | — | £712,517 † |
| Subcontracting for Delivery of Devolved Adult Skills Fund LCRCA | Sysco Business Services | — | — | £464,818 † |
| Summer Works Vauxhall Road | Krol Corlett Construction Limited | 3 Jul 2026 | 2 mo | £370,509 |
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 · 47 of 71 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Merseytravel - Public transport costs - students & staff in Merseyside area | Merseytravel, Merseytravel | 17 Oct 2026 | £906,709 |
| Merseyrail - Public transport costs - students in Merseyside area | MERSEYRAIL ELECTRICS 2002 LIMITED | 17 Oct 2026 | £169,619 |
| Stagecoach Services Ltd - Public transport costs - Students in Merseyside area | Stagecoach Service Ltd | 17 Oct 2026 | £31,806 |
| VLE/Moodle Provision | People Fluent t/a Open LMS | 30 Jun 2027 | £99,700 |
| VLE/MOODLE | People Fluent t/a Open LMS | 30 Jun 2027 | £133,292 |
| Non Devolved | Sysco Business Skills Academy | 31 Jul 2027 | £33,000 |
| Free Courses for Jobs | Sysco Business Skills Academy | 31 Jul 2027 | £330,000 |
| Stakeholder, Political Engagement & Reputation Communications PR | SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS GROUP LIMITED | 31 Aug 2027 | £108,000 |
| Exam Boards Awarding Body Spends | City & Guilds, City & Guilds of London Institute | 31 Aug 2027 | £1,373,801 |
| Exam Board Awarding Body | Pearson Education Limited | 31 Aug 2027 | £1,280,898 |
Soonest 10 of 12 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 104 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Temporary Agency Security Staff | Awarded / complete | 15 Dec 2025 | — |
| Corporate Recruitment | Awarded / complete | 21 Nov 2025 | — |
| Generator Hire - Additional | Awarded / complete | 20 Nov 2025 | — |
| Open University Validated Partners | Awarded / complete | 18 Nov 2025 | — |
| National Electrotechnical Training Annual Licence and Assessment Fees | Awarded / complete | 18 Nov 2025 | — |
| Public transport costs for both students & staff - Rail & Bus | Awarded / complete | 13 Nov 2025 | — |
| General Furniture | Awarded / complete | 13 Nov 2025 | — |
| M&E Asset Capture and Statutory Based PPM PlannerInstallation services of equipment for measuring | Awarded / complete | 10 Nov 2025 | £30,000 |
| National Electrotechnical Training Annual Licence and Assessment Fees | Awarded / complete | 7 Nov 2025 | — |
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 (£19m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 66 award records on 38 procedures (54 to a single canonical supplier, 12 multi-supplier). 27 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: 47 of 71 published contracts carry a period end; 12 end within 18 months, 3 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (4 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-UKPRN-10003955