University of Bath: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·South West England·Bath
Find a Tender organisation id153486Websitebath.ac.uk ↗
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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.
14 awarded tenders, 102 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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
71 Architectural, construction, engineering2 procedures · 40%38 Laboratory, optical and precision1 procedures · 20%45 Construction work1 procedures · 20%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting1 procedures · 20%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 · 5 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 100% (5 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 100% (5 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 often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 5 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 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| Optimax Imaging Inspection & Measurement Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 19 Feb 2025 |
| Oxford Economics | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 23 Dec 2024 |
| Colm Watling | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 3 | 29 Mar 2023 |
| Helix Research & Enterprise Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 3 | 29 Mar 2023 |
| Sealey Associates Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 3 | 29 Mar 2023 |
| Custom Commercial Services Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 3 | 29 Mar 2023 |
| Health Innovation Wessex Limited | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 2 | 29 Mar 2023 |
| Revolution9 Consulting Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 2 | 29 Mar 2023 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 21% of 14 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 102 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.
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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| 3D Optical Measuring System | Optimax Imaging Inspection & Measurement Ltd | — | — | £260,000 † |
| Economic Impact Assessment Report | Oxford Economics | — | — | £60,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 41 of 41 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Creative Agency Support ServicesMarketing services | Awarded / complete | 21 Mar 2023 | — |
| Spectral Flow CytometerCytometers | Open | 7 Feb 2023 | £300,000 |
| Creative Agency Support ServicesMarketing services | Open | 16 Jan 2023 | £370,000 |
| IAAPS Extended Photo Voltaic ArraySolar photovoltaic modules | Awarded / complete | 19 Dec 2022 | — |
| Upgrade to IAAPS Propulsion Facilities for Safe Hydrogen OperationMachinery for the production and use of mechanical power | Open | 25 Nov 2022 | £800,000 |
| Provision of Digital Technology ServicesComputer support and consultancy services | Open | 22 Nov 2022 | £1,500,000 |
| University of Bath Lift Maintenance and ServicingLift-maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 21 Oct 2022 | — |
| Peptide Synthesis Screening PlatformChecking and testing apparatus | Open | 30 Sept 2022 | £300,000 |
| Provision of Water Hygiene Monitoring and Inspection ServicesMonitoring and control services | Open | 17 May 2022 | £600,000 |
| Provision of Sports Public Relations ServicesPublic relations services | Open | 5 May 2022 | £750,000 |
| Target Bath: Outreach ProgrammeMarketing services | Awarded / complete | 8 Nov 2021 | — |
| IAAPS Turbocharger Test FacilityInstruments for vehicles | Open | 21 Oct 2021 | £600,000 |
| Financial Advisor ServicesFinancial consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 27 Sept 2021 | — |
| Global Mobility and Shadow PayrollPayroll management services | Awarded / complete | 1 Sept 2021 | — |
| Media Planning and Buying ServicesMarketing services | Open | 23 Jul 2021 | £300,000 |
| Metering ServicesEngineering services | Open | 11 May 2021 | £200,000 |
| Global Mobility and Shadow PayrollPayroll management services | Open | 28 Apr 2021 | £250,000 |
| Financial Advisor ServicesFinancial consultancy services | Open | 22 Apr 2021 | £50,000 |
| PAYMENT PLATFORM SERVICESInternational payment transfer services | Awarded / complete | 19 Feb 2021 | — |
| Commercial Flooring - Supply, Fit and RepairsFloor and wall covering work | Open | 27 Jan 2021 | £450,000 |
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 (£9.7m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 2 award records on 2 procedures (2 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 2 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: 0 of 28 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (22 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-FTS-153486