University of Bristol: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·South West England·Bristol
Companies HouseRC000648 ↗Websitebristol.ac.uk ↗
Top-3 supplier share9%of 347 awarded procedures · 288 suppliers
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347 awarded tenders, 288 different suppliers.
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
38 Laboratory, optical and precision26 procedures · 217%48 Software package and information systems11 procedures · 92%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting9 procedures · 75%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet5 procedures · 42%50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 33%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals3 procedures · 25%34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 25%42 Industrial machinery3 procedures · 25%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 12 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
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Contract100%(12 notices)
12 of 12 notices are Contract (100%).
Procedure route
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Limited / restricted42%(5 notices)
5 of 12 notices are Limited / restricted (42%).Direct award33%(4 notices)
4 of 12 notices are Direct award (33%).Open25%(3 notices)
3 of 12 notices are Open (25%).
Bids per lot, few lots
3indicative · n=10% of lots drew a single bidi
Based on 1 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Fewer than 5 lots: a median, not a typical figure.
Notice amendments
01 of 12 notices amendedi
Based on 12 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
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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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| Jisc Commercial Limited | 12 | 3.5% | 0 | 12 | 1 Jan 2024 |
| Ebsco International Incorporated | 11 | 3.2% | 3 | 11 | 4 Aug 2025 |
| FEI UK Limited | 7 | 2% | 1 | 8 | 4 Jan 2024 |
| Dell Corporation Ltd | 7 | 2% | 1 | 7 | 22 Jan 2026 |
| Academia Ltd | 6 | 1.7% | 4 | 6 | 12 Oct 2026 |
| VWR International Ltd | 5 | 1.4% | 2 | 5 | 18 Dec 2024 |
| Illumina Cambridge Ltd | 5 | 1.4% | 2 | 5 | 8 Aug 2025 |
| Softcat Plc | 4 | 1.2% | 2 | 4 | 28 Apr 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 9% of 347 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 288 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
Published award value (24m)
£17mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 12 of 12 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 69%.i
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
£1.4m middle valuerobust · n=12Middle half £663k–£2.0m.i
Largest published awards i | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 † |
| Supply of a machine head capable of carbon fibre material deposition using Rapid Tow Shearing (RTS) technology in both 2D and 3D applications. | iCOMAT Ltd | — | — | £1,600,000 † |
Contracts endingi
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383 of 408 contracts carry an end date, 44 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purchase of a gas chromatograph triple quadrupole mass spectrometer and single quadrupole instrument | Thermo Fisher Scientifc | 20 Nov 2026 | £203,999 |
| Purchase of a GC triple quadrupole mass spectrometer and GC MS instrument | Thermo Fisher Scientific | 20 Nov 2026 | £203,999 |
| Research Funding Search Tool | Ex Libris UK Ltd. | 25 Nov 2026 estimated | £264,134 |
| Puchase of IR Detectors for School of Chemistry | Phase Tech Spectroscopy | 29 Nov 2026 | £220,000 |
| Procurement of 2 Single Photon Detectors | ID Quantique SA | 30 Nov 2026 | £32,615 |
| Supply of Test Frame for Cryogenic Testing | Instron Division of ITW Ltd | 30 Nov 2026 | £188,822 |
| Waste Collection Services - Biodegradable Waste | Hills Waste Solutions Ltd | 30 Nov 2026 | £50,973 |
| Student Debt Recovery Services | STA INTERNATIONAL | 6 Dec 2026 | £350,000 |
| Poppulo Installation and Subscription | Academia Ltd | 12 Dec 2026 | £56,032 |
| APS Read and Publish 2023-2025 | Ebsco International Incorporated | 31 Dec 2026 | £97,219 |
Soonest 10 of 69 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 114 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | £450,000 |
| Merchant AcquirerBanking services | Awarded / complete | 17 Sept 2024 | — |
| Removals, Relocation and Re-use FrameworkRefuse disposal and treatment | Awarded / complete | 5 Sept 2024 | £2,000,000 |
| 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 | £5,000,000 |
| Procurement of 1 UV Laser Writer for Maskless LithographyInstallation services of laboratory equipment | Awarded / complete | 4 Jul 2024 | £206,000 |
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Contracts Finder adds 369 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.
About this data
- 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. 383 of 408 published contracts have an end date; 44 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.