THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·West Midlands·BIRMINGHAM
Companies HouseRC000645 ↗
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1,941 awarded tenders, 1,002 different suppliers.
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
38 Laboratory, optical and precision28 procedures · 16%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet26 procedures · 15%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting21 procedures · 12%45 Construction work19 procedures · 11%71 Architectural, construction, engineering16 procedures · 9%48 Software package and information systems8 procedures · 5%50 Repair and maintenance services8 procedures · 5%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services5 procedures · 3%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 172 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract87%(150 notices)
150 of 172 notices are Contract (87%).Framework13%(22 notices)
22 of 172 notices are Framework (13%).
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Direct award58%(99 notices)
99 of 172 notices are Direct award (58%).Route not published22%(38 notices)
38 of 172 notices are Route not published (22%).Open8%(14 notices)
14 of 172 notices are Open (8%).Limited / restricted7%(12 notices)
12 of 172 notices are Limited / restricted (7%).Selective5%(9 notices)
9 of 172 notices are Selective (5%).
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Based on 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Fewer than 5 lots: a median, not a typical figure.
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Based on 8 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 172 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
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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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| CDW Limited | 65 | 3.3% | 1 | 65 | 7 Dec 2024 |
| Prolinx Limited | 53 | 2.7% | 1 | 53 | 7 Aug 2024 |
| CRUNCH DMC LIMITED | 35 | 1.8% | 4 | 35 | 20 Nov 2024 |
| GVAV Limited | 34 | 1.8% | 1 | 34 | 31 Jul 2024 |
| Pertemps Recruitment Partnership Ltd | 32 | 1.6% | 0 | 32 | 29 Jul 2024 |
| GTH Construction Limited | 28 | 1.4% | 2 | 28 | 5 Nov 2024 |
| Chiel Construction Ltd | 23 | 1.2% | 3 | 23 | 20 Jan 2025 |
| BRUKER UK LIMITED | 16 | 0.8% | 1 | 17 | 28 Mar 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 1,941 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 1,002 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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Largest published awards i | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Provision of Technical Services to the High Temperature Research Centre | Manufacturing Technology Centre | — | — | £30,391,540 † |
| Provision of Health Insurance Cover to University of Birmingham Dubai | Orient Insurance P.J.S.C. | — | — | £3,703,848 † |
| Sequencing Technologies in Clinical Research | Oxford Nanopore Technologies | — | — | £3,000,000 † |
| Workflow Automation and Business Process Integration Platform | ServiceNow | — | 3 yrs | £2,062,723 ≈ £688k/yr |
| Glo-BNHL Central Review of Imaging and Clinical Data | Medidata Solutions International Limited | — | — | £685,056 † |
Contracts endingi
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1,868 of 1,955 contracts carry an end date, 16 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 32 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 348 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
Search all 348 procedures for this authority →
Contracts Finder adds 1,743 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.
About this data
- 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. 1,868 of 1,955 published contracts have an end date; 16 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.