Ulster University: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

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Open now3next deadline 19 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months25+1150% vs prior 12 months (2)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot311.1% single-bid · 9 bid reports
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share27%of 11 awarded procedures · 11 suppliers
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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.

11 awarded tenders, 11 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months21 within 6 months
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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 award value, 24m£20mnet · on 7 of 11 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 98%
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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

3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Supply of Sports Kits and Leisurewear to Ulster University19 Oct 202625d£336,000
Student Counselling Services27 Oct 202633d£1,200,000
High Voltage Maintenance Services27 Oct 202634d£219,616

What they buy
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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 work8 procedures · 30%
50 Repair and maintenance services7 procedures · 26% · 1 open
18 Clothing, footwear, bags3 procedures · 11% · 1 open
85 Health and social work services3 procedures · 11% · 1 open
31 Electrical machinery3 procedures · 11%

How they buy
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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 · 27 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 100% (27 notices)
Procedure route
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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 52% (14 notices)
  • Route not published 22% (6 notices)
  • Direct award 15% (4 notices)
  • Selective 11% (3 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=911.1% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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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.

Last 24 months.

46 daysrobust · n=10
Notice amendments
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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 26 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

0.513 of 26 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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.

Last 24 months.

5.3% below estimaterobust · n=5

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
AMAZON BUSINESS EU SARL, UK BRANCH19.1%117 Jul 2026
ADVANCED OVERWATCH LIMITED19.1%119 Jun 2026
Rapid Agency (NI) Ltd19.1%1112 Dec 2025
Dalkia Scotshield Limited19.1%118 Dec 2025
SDL Group Limited (t/a Surridge Sport)19.1%118 Jul 2026
Lena By Inspire19.1%116 Jan 2026
Turnitin, LLC19.1%1122 Jul 2025
China Intellectual Education Institute19.1%117 Nov 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 27% of 11 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 11 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£20mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 7 of 11 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 98%; a further 4 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£1.9m inc. VAT, kept apart).
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£1.4m medianrobust · n=7Middle half £743k–£4.8m.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
ElectricityPOWER NI ENERGY LIMITED27 Nov 20251.3 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 ChinaChina Intellectual Education Institute7 Nov 20254.7 yrs · up to 8.7 yrs£6,836,000
≈ £1.5m/yr
Car Park Equipment and MaintenanceSKIDATA Ireland Ltd24 Apr 20266 yrs · up to 12 yrs£2,798,749
≈ £466k/yr
Fire Alarm Systems Maintenance ServicesDalkia Scotshield Limited8 Dec 20254 yrs · up to 8 yrs£1,446,741
≈ £362k/yr
Amazon Prime Business AccountAMAZON BUSINESS EU SARL, UK BRANCH7 Jul 20263.9 yrs£1,252,130
≈ £320k/yr

Contracts ending
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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 · 9 of 10 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
Student Counselling ServicesLena By Inspire, Lena By Inspire31 Dec 2026£241,770
ElectricityPOWER NI ENERGY LIMITED31 Mar 2027£7,203,651

Recent procedures

Latest 27 of 27 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Bloomberg Terminal LicensesAwarded / complete11 Sept 2026—
Sports Kits and Leisurewear2 lotsClothingAwarded / complete19 Aug 2026£360,000
Amazon Prime Business AccountAwarded / complete17 Aug 2026—
CCTV Maintenance ServicesClosed circuit television servicesAwarded / complete24 Jul 2026£247,000
Creative Design ServicesAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete16 Jul 2026£1,291,000
Car Park Equipment and MaintenanceCar park control equipmentAwarded / complete16 Jul 2026£2,600,000
Derry~Londonderry Teaching and Student Centre WorksConstruction workAwarded / complete9 Jul 2026£29,000,000
Smoke Ventilation Maintenance ServicesFire suppression systemAwarded / complete23 Jun 2026£1,385,066
Pharmacogenomic (PGx) Testing ServiceLaboratory servicesOpen17 Jun 2026£600,000
Media Planning, Buying and Advertising Request For InformationMarket and economic research; polling and statisticsPlanning16 Jun 2026£800,000
Integrated Project Management Information System (PMIS)IT services: consultingAwarded / complete2 Apr 2026£260,000
Smoke Ventilation Maintenance ServicesFire suppression systemAwarded / complete2 Apr 2026£1,385,066
Derry~Londonderry Northland Road Sports Dome (UU Dome)Design and constructionOpen1 Apr 2026£12,000,000
Student Counselling ServicesAwarded / complete3 Mar 2026—
Centre for Digital Healthcare Technology Main BuildBuilding construction workOpen2 Mar 2026£19,200,000
Provision of a Pharmacogenomic lab testing service Request For InformationResearch and development services and related consultancy servicesPlanning20 Feb 2026£790,000
Fire Alarms Maintenance ServicesBurglar and fire alarmsAwarded / complete5 Feb 2026£1,253,160
Student Record Information System Higher EducationIT services: consultingPlanning21 Jan 2026£10,000,000
ElectricityElectricityAwarded / complete7 Jan 2026£10,525,500
Management and Delivery of Ulster University Business School (UUBS) HGU Teaching contracts in ChinaAwarded / complete23 Dec 2025—

Search all 27 procedures for this authority →

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 (£59m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 11 award records on 11 procedures (11 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 0 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 4 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: 9 of 10 published contracts carry a period end; 2 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.