THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·West Midlands·BIRMINGHAM
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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 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.
187 awarded tenders, 169 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.
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 systems10 procedures · 6%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting8 procedures · 5%71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 4%50 Repair and maintenance services5 procedures · 3%38 Laboratory, optical and precision4 procedures · 2%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances3 procedures · 2%45 Construction work3 procedures · 2%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 procedures · 2%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 · 174 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 87% (151 notices)
- Framework 13% (23 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 57% (99 notices)
- Route not published 21% (36 notices)
- Open 9% (15 notices)
- Limited / restricted 8% (14 notices)
- Selective 6% (10 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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 8 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 174 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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| FEI UK Limited | 4 | 2.1% | 2 | 4 | 29 Jul 2026 |
| SThree Partnership LLP | 3 | 1.6% | 3 | 3 | 29 Jul 2026 |
| Becton, Dickinson U.K. Limited | 3 | 1.6% | 2 | 3 | 22 Jul 2026 |
| Medidata Solutions International Limited | 3 | 1.6% | 1 | 3 | 21 Jan 2025 |
| ServiceNow | 3 | 1.6% | 0 | 4 | 26 Jan 2024 |
| Advance HE | 2 | 1.1% | 2 | 2 | 21 Apr 2026 |
| Indusomal Technologies UK Limited | 2 | 1.1% | 2 | 2 | 3 Mar 2026 |
| Braywhite & Co | 2 | 1.1% | 2 | 2 | 3 Mar 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 5% of 187 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 169 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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| Provision of Technical Services to the High Temperature Research Centre | The Manufacturing Technology Centre Ltd | — | — | £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 † |
| Glo-BNHL Central Review of Imaging and Clinical Data | Medidata Solutions International Limited | — | — | £685,056 † |
| StARS project- INDUSOMAL TECHNOLOGIES UK Limited | Indusomal Technologies UK Limited | — | — | £448,500 † |
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 · 106 of 194 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| INDICATE-2 siemens machines and cartridges and QC | Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics Limited (trading as Siemens Healthineers) | 31 Oct 2026 | £95,600 |
| ABCA2 IRMS Breath testing system | Sercon Ltd | 27 Mar 2027 | £69,070 |
| Annual Service Contract | Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited | 30 May 2027 | £94,080 |
| Provision of Leadership Development Programme | NOUS GROUP (UK) LTD. | 1 Jul 2027 | Not published |
| Delivery of online courses | FutureLearn Ltd | 31 Jul 2027 | £90,000 |
| service contract quote 76129 | Becton, Dickinson U.K. Limited | 30 Sept 2027 | £67,293 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 286 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 (£34m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 121 award records on 121 procedures (120 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 115 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- 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: 106 of 194 published contracts carry a period end; 6 end within 18 months, 2 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (24 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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