Education Authority: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Central government·Northern Ireland·Belfast·Central purchasing body on 17 of 233 notices
Official UK PPONPPHJ-6982-JPXY
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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 73 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.
250 awarded tenders, 389 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
4 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Equipment and Fitness Equipment and the Maintenance of Gymnasium Equipment and Fitness Equipment | 30 Sept 2026 | 7d | £8,000,000 |
| ***Pre-Market Engagement*** ICT-26-002 Tachograph Analysis and Support | 30 Sept 2026 | 8d | £360,000 |
| Appointment of Integrated Consultants team for Jones Memorial Primary School, Enniskillen - Accommodation | 12 Oct 2026 | 19d | £153,300 |
| TRN-24-002 Transport of School Meals | 7 Jul 2028 | 653d | £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 work49 procedures · 21%71 Architectural, construction, engineering34 procedures · 15% · 1 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet33 procedures · 14%48 Software package and information systems19 procedures · 8%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances16 procedures · 7%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting16 procedures · 7%50 Repair and maintenance services14 procedures · 6% · 1 open15 Food, drink, tobacco14 procedures · 6%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 · 233 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 80% (186 notices)
- Framework 19% (44 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 1% (3 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 28% (65 notices)
- Limited / restricted 27% (62 notices)
- Selective 25% (59 notices)
- Route not published 18% (43 notices)
- Direct award 2% (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 73 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 30 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 232 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 49 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 | 6.4% | 7 | 28 | 8 Apr 2026 |
| Stephens Catering Equipment Co Ltd | 11 | 4.4% | 4 | 20 | 18 Feb 2026 |
| Greystone Joinery Construction Ltd | 10 | 4% | 4 | 18 | 2 Dec 2025 |
| Maurice Flynn & Sons Ltd | 9 | 3.6% | 3 | 16 | 3 Dec 2025 |
| HENDERSON FOODSERVICE LIMITED | 8 | 3.2% | 7 | 28 | 30 Mar 2026 |
| Woodvale Construction Company | 8 | 3.2% | 5 | 11 | 14 Apr 2026 |
| CHC GROUP LIMITED | 8 | 3.2% | 3 | 15 | 3 Dec 2025 |
| Massey Catering Equipment Limited | 8 | 3.2% | 3 | 13 | 26 Sept 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 15% of 250 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 389 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.
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 · 115 of 567 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 13 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 370 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£3.1bn, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 329 award records on 151 procedures (224 to a single canonical supplier, 102 multi-supplier, 3 with no supplier published). 101 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: 115 of 567 published contracts carry a period end; 13 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (11 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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