the Education Authority: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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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 42 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.
253 awarded tenders, 385 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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
Open notices
3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre Market Engagement Exercise for a Speech and Language Therapy Service for Nettlefield Primary School | 26 Oct 2026 | 5d | £258,000 |
| Fixed Asset Management System | 9 Nov 2026 | 19d | £800,000 |
| TRN-24-002 Transport of School Meals | 7 Jul 2028 | 624d | £21,000,000 |
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
45 Construction work41 procedures · 21%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet34 procedures · 18% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering22 procedures · 11%48 Software package and information systems15 procedures · 8%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting13 procedures · 7%80 Education and training services11 procedures · 6%15 Food, drink, tobacco10 procedures · 5%30 Office and computing machinery10 procedures · 5%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 · 192 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.
Contract85%(163 notices)
163 of 192 notices are Contract (85%).Framework14%(26 notices)
26 of 192 notices are Framework (14%).Dynamic purchasing system2%(3 notices)
3 of 192 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (2%).
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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 / restricted26%(49 notices)
49 of 192 notices are Limited / restricted (26%).Open26%(49 notices)
49 of 192 notices are Open (26%).Route not published24%(47 notices)
47 of 192 notices are Route not published (24%).Selective22%(42 notices)
42 of 192 notices are Selective (22%).Direct award3%(5 notices)
5 of 192 notices are Direct award (3%).
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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 42 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 32 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 192 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 26 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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| Irwin ME Ltd | 16 | 6.3% | 5 | 28 | — |
| Maurice Flynn and Sons Ltd | 13 | 5.1% | 4 | 21 | — |
| Stephens Catering Equipment Co Ltd | 11 | 4.3% | 2 | 20 | 18 Feb 2026 |
| Greystone Joinery Construction Ltd | 10 | 4% | 3 | 18 | — |
| Henderson Foodservice Limited | 8 | 3.2% | 3 | 32 | 23 Feb 2026 |
| CHC Group Ltd | 8 | 3.2% | 3 | 15 | — |
| MASSEY CATERING EQUIPMENT LIMITED | 8 | 3.2% | 2 | 13 | — |
| Woodvale Construction Company | 8 | 3.2% | 2 | 11 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 15% of 253 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 385 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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| Education Network for Northern Ireland - "Education Network (NI)" | Capita Managed IT Solutions | — | — | £721,000,000 † |
| Education Network for Northern Ireland - "Education Network (NI)" | Capita Managed IT Solutions | — | — | £721,000,000 † |
| Education Network for Northern Ireland - "Education Network (NI)" | Capita Managed IT Solutions | — | — | £175,000,000 † |
| Provision of Planned and Responsive Maintenance and Minor Works - Armagh M&E Lot 2 Reference number Armagh M&E Lot 2 | CHC Group Ltd | — | 3.8 yrs | £131,265,000 † ≈ £34m/yr |
| Provision of Planned and Responsive Maintenance and Minor Works - Belfast Building Lot 1 Reference number Belfast Building Lot 1 | Maurice Flynn and Sons Ltd | — | 3.8 yrs | £66,150,000 † ≈ £17m/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Published end dates only · 163 of 568 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 15 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 380 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
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. 163 of 568 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.