University of Bristol: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·Nationwide (UK)·Bristol
Companies HouseRC000648 ↗Websitebristol.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.
71 awarded tenders, 78 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
42 Industrial machinery3 procedures · 21%38 Laboratory, optical and precision2 procedures · 14%50 Repair and maintenance services2 procedures · 14%32 Radio, television, communication1 procedures · 7%66 Financial and insurance services1 procedures · 7%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet1 procedures · 7%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 · 14 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% (14 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.
- Limited / restricted 36% (5 notices)
- Direct award 29% (4 notices)
- Open 29% (4 notices)
- Selective 7% (1 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 14 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 2 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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| FEI UK Limited | 5 | 7% | 1 | 6 | 14 Feb 2025 |
| SA Global | 2 | 2.8% | 0 | 2 | 9 Apr 2024 |
| Cygnet Texkimp Limited | 2 | 2.8% | 0 | 2 | 28 Feb 2024 |
| Sirona Dental Systems GmbH | 2 | 2.8% | 0 | 2 | 29 Nov 2022 |
| Loop Technology Limited | 1 | 1.4% | 1 | 1 | 7 Jan 2025 |
| Electroimpact UK, Ltd | 1 | 1.4% | 1 | 1 | 21 Jan 2025 |
| iCOMAT Ltd | 1 | 1.4% | 1 | 1 | 21 Jan 2025 |
| CRFS LTD | 1 | 1.4% | 1 | 1 | 13 Feb 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 71 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 78 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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| Fiduciary Management Services for Pension & Assurance Scheme | VAN LANSCHOT KEMPEN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT (UK) LTD | — | — | £13,500,000 † |
| HRM-CAP WP1.1 - NCF Deposition System | Loop Technology Limited | — | — | £3,100,000 † |
| Non-Terrestrial Networks Monitoring & Testing | Keysight Technologies UK Limited | — | — | £3,000,000 † |
| Spectrum Monitoring Systems | CRFS LTD | — | — | £2,000,000 † |
| Spectrum Emulation Systems | National Instruments Corp. U.K. Ltd | — | — | £2,000,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 113 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Isambard AI – Purchase Power Agreement | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2026 | — |
| Isambard AIDF Contract Change v2 | Awarded / complete | 19 Jun 2026 | — |
| Hydraulic System Support - 5 Year Maintenance ContractRepair and maintenance services for pumps | Open | 11 May 2026 | £240,000 |
| Isambard AI Data Facility (AIDF) Main Contractor Appointment | Awarded / complete | 20 Mar 2026 | — |
| Design and Build Consultant including Planning Application Services and Principal Designer Role | Awarded / complete | 4 Feb 2026 | — |
| Procurement of a Multi-purpose Confocal Imaging SystemChecking and testing apparatus | Open | 30 Oct 2025 | £600,000 |
| Fiduciary Management Services for Pension & Assurance SchemeInsurance and pension services | Awarded / complete | 11 Jul 2025 | £13,500,000 |
| Cloud Resale and FinOps for Education & Research in AWSAdded-value database services | Awarded / complete | 26 Feb 2025 | — |
| Procurement of a CryoFIB SEMLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 14 Feb 2025 | £1,500,000 |
| Non-Terrestrial Networks & Spectrum Monitoring & TestingCommunications network | Awarded / complete | 13 Feb 2025 | — |
| Supply of a machine head capable of carbon fibre material deposition using Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS) technology in both 2D and 3D applications.Miscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery | Awarded / complete | 21 Jan 2025 | — |
| An automated fibre placement machine headMiscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery | Awarded / complete | 21 Jan 2025 | — |
| Supply of upgraded deposition systemMiscellaneous general and special-purpose machinery | Awarded / complete | 7 Jan 2025 | — |
| www.tenders.bris.ac.ukRepair and maintenance services of electrical and mechanical building installations | Open | 1 Oct 2024 | — |
| Cold Storage ContractLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 27 Sept 2024 | — |
| Merchant AcquirerBanking services | Awarded / complete | 17 Sept 2024 | — |
| Removals, Relocation and Re-use FrameworkRefuse disposal and treatment | Awarded / complete | 5 Sept 2024 | — |
| Wing Accelerator WP5.2 - In process 3D Inspection System (NDA)Industrial machinery | Open | 9 Aug 2024 | — |
| University of Bristol Group Pension Plan Insurances (UBGPP)Insurance and pension services | Awarded / complete | 23 Jul 2024 | — |
| Procurement of 1 UV Laser Writer for Maskless LithographyInstallation services of laboratory equipment | Awarded / complete | 4 Jul 2024 | — |
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 (£82m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 9 award records on 7 procedures (9 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 9 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: 3 of 84 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 (6 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-COH-RC000648