THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·Northern Ireland·Coleraine
Companies HouseRC000726 ↗Websiteulster.ac.uk ↗
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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 9 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.
13 awarded tenders, 15 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
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Counselling Services | 27 Oct 2026 | 7d | £1,200,000 |
| High Voltage Maintenance Services | 27 Oct 2026 | 7d | £219,616 |
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 work9 procedures · 31%50 Repair and maintenance services8 procedures · 28% · 1 open35 Security, fire-fighting, police5 procedures · 17%38 Laboratory, optical and precision5 procedures · 17%85 Health and social work services3 procedures · 10% · 1 open18 Clothing, footwear, bags3 procedures · 10%31 Electrical machinery3 procedures · 10%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals3 procedures · 10%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 · 29 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.
Contract100%(29 notices)
29 of 29 notices are Contract (100%).
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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.
Open48%(14 notices)
14 of 29 notices are Open (48%).Route not published24%(7 notices)
7 of 29 notices are Route not published (24%).Direct award17%(5 notices)
5 of 29 notices are Direct award (17%).Selective10%(3 notices)
3 of 29 notices are Selective (10%).
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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 9 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 10 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 29 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 5 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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| Surridge Sport | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 2 | 8 Jul 2026 |
| AMAZON BUSINESS EU SARL, UK BRANCH | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 7 Jul 2026 |
| CARECALL (NI) LIMITED | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 6 Jan 2026 |
| ADVANCED OVERWATCH LIMITED | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 9 Jun 2026 |
| Rapid Agency (NI) Ltd | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 12 Dec 2025 |
| Dalkia Scotshield Limited | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 8 Dec 2025 |
| Lena By Inspire | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 6 Jan 2026 |
| Turnitin, LLC | 1 | 7.7% | 1 | 1 | 22 Jul 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 23% of 13 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 15 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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| Derry~Londonderry Teaching and Student Centre Works | GLASGIVEN CONTRACTS LTD | 9 Jul 2026 | 4.8 yrs | £25,061,059 ≈ £5.2m/yr |
| Electricity | POWER NI ENERGY LIMITED | 27 Nov 2025 | 1.3 yrs · up to 2.3 yrs | £7,203,651 ≈ £5.8m/yr |
| Management and Delivery of Ulster University Business School (UUBS) HGU Teaching contracts in China | China Intellectual Education Institute | 7 Nov 2025 | 4.7 yrs · up to 8.7 yrs | £6,836,000 ≈ £1.5m/yr |
| Car Park Equipment and Maintenance | SKIDATA Ireland Ltd | 24 Apr 2026 | 6 yrs · up to 12 yrs | £2,798,749 ≈ £466k/yr |
| Fire Alarm Systems Maintenance Services | Dalkia Scotshield Limited | 8 Dec 2025 | 4 yrs · up to 8 yrs | £1,446,741 ≈ £362k/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 · 9 of 9 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Student Counselling Services | CARECALL (NI) LIMITED, Lena By Inspire | 31 Dec 2026 | £241,770 |
| Electricity | POWER NI ENERGY LIMITED | 31 Mar 2027 | £7,203,651 |
Recent procedures
Latest 29 of 29 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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| Student Record Information System Higher EducationIT services: consulting | Planning | 21 Jan 2026 | £10,000,000 |
| ElectricityElectricity | Awarded / complete | 7 Jan 2026 | £10,525,500 |
| Management and Delivery of Ulster University Business School (UUBS) HGU Teaching contracts in China | Awarded / complete | 23 Dec 2025 | — |
| Procure4Education Northern Ireland 2025Architectural | Planning | 13 Nov 2025 | — |
| DLD Sports Dome WorksConstruction work | Planning | 10 Oct 2025 | — |
| The provision of a similarity detection system | Awarded / complete | 31 Jul 2025 | — |
| Fire Alarms Systems Maintenance ServicesBurglar and fire alarms | Planning | 26 Jun 2025 | — |
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. 9 of 9 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.