University of Chester: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Charity·North West England·Chester
Charity Commission525938 ↗Websitechester.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 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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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, 13 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
50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 60%31 Electrical machinery1 procedures · 20%35 Security, fire-fighting, police1 procedures · 20%42 Industrial machinery1 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 60% (3 notices)
- Selective 20% (1 notices)
- Route not published 20% (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 4 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 4 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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| Net Natives Limited | 2 | 14.3% | 0 | 2 | 21 Dec 2023 |
| GRANT THORNTON UK LLP | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 3 Jan 2025 |
| Allied Lift Services Division (UK) Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 1 Sept 2026 |
| Kimpton | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 25 Jul 2025 |
| Walker Fire UK Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 2 Jul 2026 |
| Grok Global Services Inc | 1 | 7.1% | 1 | 1 | 13 Mar 2026 |
| Oxford Medical Simulation Limited | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 2 | 30 Mar 2022 |
| Churches Fire Security Ltd | 1 | 7.1% | 0 | 2 | 20 Oct 2022 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 29% of 14 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 13 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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| Gas Maintenance Services and Pressure Systems | Kimpton | — | — | £1,200,000 † |
| Award Contract for the Provision of External Audit Services | GRANT THORNTON UK LLP | — | — | £900,000 † |
| Provision of Lift Maintenance Services 2026 | Allied Lift Services Division (UK) Ltd | 1 Sept 2026 | 3.2 yrs · up to 5.2 yrs | £750,000 ≈ £237k/yr |
| Professional Admissions Services | Grok Global Services Inc | — | 3 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £480,000 † ≈ £160k/yr |
Recent procedures
Latest 14 of 14 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Provision of Lift Maintenance Services 2026Goods lifts | Awarded / complete | 16 Sept 2026 | £750,000 |
| Statutory Compliance and Planned Preventative Maintenance Services on Fire Safety EquipmentBurglar and fire alarms | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | £4,500,000 |
| Professional Admissions Services | Awarded / complete | 13 Mar 2026 | — |
| Gas Maintenance Services and Pressure SystemsGas appliance maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 25 Jul 2025 | £1,200,000 |
| External Audit Services 2024Auditing services | Awarded / complete | 3 Jan 2025 | £800,000 |
| 24/7 Student Assistance ProgrammeCounselling services | Awarded / complete | 25 Sept 2024 | — |
| Card Acquiring TenderBanking services | Awarded / complete | 24 Jul 2024 | — |
| Higher Education Marketing Agency to Support the Implementation of Student Recruitment CampaignsMarketing services | Awarded / complete | 21 Dec 2023 | — |
| Supply of Legionella Control ServicesHygiene services | Awarded / complete | 13 Mar 2023 | — |
| Provision of Maintenance Services for Fire Alarm Systems and Fire Extinguishers to the University of ChesterBurglar and fire alarms | Awarded / complete | 20 Oct 2022 | — |
| Provision of Door Inspection and Survey to the University of ChesterSurveying services | Awarded / complete | 8 Sept 2022 | — |
| Design and Redevelopment of University of Chester’s Corporate WebsiteWorld wide web (www) site design services | Awarded / complete | 20 May 2022 | — |
| Oxford Medical Simulation (OMS) VR Platform LicensesIndustry specific software package | Awarded / complete | 30 Mar 2022 | — |
| 2022 and 2023 Student Recruitment CampaignsAdvertising campaign services | Awarded / complete | 27 Oct 2021 | — |
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 (£2.8m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 5 award records on 5 procedures (5 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 3 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 1 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: 3 of 16 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 (5 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-CHC-525938