The David Ross Education Trust: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)·East Midlands·Loughborough
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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.
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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.
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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.
10 awarded tenders, 12 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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 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
48 Software package and information systems3 procedures · 38%80 Education and training services2 procedures · 25%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services1 procedures · 13%60 Transport services (except waste transport)1 procedures · 13%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental1 procedures · 13%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 · 8 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.
Contract88%(7 notices)
7 of 8 notices are Contract (88%).Framework13%(1 notices)
1 of 8 notices are Framework (13%).
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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.
Open38%(3 notices)
3 of 8 notices are Open (38%).Selective25%(2 notices)
2 of 8 notices are Selective (25%).Route not published25%(2 notices)
2 of 8 notices are Route not published (25%).Limited / restricted13%(1 notices)
1 of 8 notices are Limited / restricted (13%).
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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 often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 8 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| INNOVATE SERVICES LIMITED (06420662) | 1 | 10% | 1 | 3 | 19 Jun 2026 |
| P.C.Coaches of Lincoln Ltd | 1 | 10% | 1 | 2 | — |
| NATIONAL EDUCATION GROUP LTD | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Pristine Clean Services Ltd | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Affinity Workforce Solutions | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | 23 Sept 2026 |
| BLAND'S (RUTLAND) LTD | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Price & Buckland | 1 | 10% | 0 | 1 | — |
| Denford Associates Ltd | 1 | 10% | 0 | 1 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 30% of 10 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 12 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 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.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| Supply Teachers and Education Recruitment - Lot 2 Managed Service | Affinity Workforce Solutions | 23 Sept 2026 | 4 yrs | £13,400,000 ≈ £3.4m/yr |
| Lot: (1) Lot 1 David Ross Education Trust Tender for Catering Services - N.Yorks and Lincolnshire | INNOVATE SERVICES LIMITED (06420662) | 19 Jun 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £6,489,124 ≈ £2.2m/yr |
| Lot: (2) Lot 2 - The David Ross Education Trust - Leicestershire and Northamptonshire | INNOVATE SERVICES LIMITED (06420662) | 19 Jun 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £6,003,456 ≈ £2.0m/yr |
| Lot: (3) Lot 3 - The David Ross Education Trust - London | INNOVATE SERVICES LIMITED (06420662) | 19 Jun 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £1,327,970 ≈ £443k/yr |
| CRA Bus Tender | P.C.Coaches of Lincoln Ltd | — | — | £277,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 13 of 13 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| CRA Bus TenderHire of buses and coaches with driver | Awarded / complete | 28 Sept 2026 | — |
| Learning Management SystemEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 25 Sept 2026 | £200,000 |
| Education Cleaning ServicesSchool cleaning services | Awarded / complete | 25 Sept 2026 | — |
| Supply Teachers and Education Recruitment - Lot 2 Managed Service | Awarded / complete | 23 Sept 2026 | — |
| Provision of a Human Resources Information System and Payroll ServiceTime accounting or human resources software package | Open | 16 Sept 2026 | £1,600,000 |
| The David Ross Education Trust Tender for Catering ServicesSchool catering services | Awarded / complete | 3 Jul 2026 | £7,201,564 |
| Procurement and Contract Management SystemProcurement software package | Planning | 12 Jun 2026 | — |
| PR, Marketing and Communication ServicesMarketing services | Awarded / complete | 20 Dec 2024 | £500,000 |
| Primary Education Resources Request for Information Dec 2024Pre-school education services | Planned | 9 Dec 2024 | — |
| Planned Preventative Maintenance and Statutory ComplianceRepair and maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 26 Jul 2024 | £4,267,500 |
| Recruitment Advertising Teaching and LeadershipAdvertising services | Awarded / complete | 7 Sept 2023 | £400,000 |
| PE Kit for participating David Ross Education Trust schoolsClothing | Awarded / complete | 30 May 2023 | £200,000 |
| Finance Management System for David Ross Education TrustFinancial analysis and accounting software development services | Awarded / complete | 21 Mar 2022 | £2,000,000 |
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. 8 of 14 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- 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.