University of Cumbria: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·North West England·-Carlisle
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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 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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 40%80 Education and training services2 procedures · 40%85 Health and social work services1 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 60% (3 notices)
- Framework 40% (2 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.
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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| Latus Group (IDC) Ltd | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 16 Dec 2024 |
| Malvern House International Ltd | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 31 Mar 2025 |
| Education Cubed Ltd | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 1 | 8 Apr 2025 |
| Terminalfour | 1 | 12.5% | 0 | 1 | 27 Feb 2024 |
| Day Architectural Ltd | 1 | 12.5% | 0 | 1 | 14 Mar 2024 |
| Howarth Litchfield | 1 | 12.5% | 0 | 1 | 14 Mar 2024 |
| Wilson Mason & Partners | 1 | 12.5% | 0 | 1 | 14 Mar 2024 |
| Align Property Partners | 1 | 12.5% | 0 | 1 | 14 Mar 2024 |
8 awarded procedures across 15 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.
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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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| For the provision of an Embedded College offering Integrated Courses ECIC | Malvern House International Ltd | — | — | £1,500,000 † |
| Occupational Therapy Services | Latus Group (IDC) Ltd | — | — | £185,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 20 of 20 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Digital Media Buying Services (2025)Marketing management consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2025 | — |
| For the provision of an Embedded College offering Integrated Courses ECICEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 31 Mar 2025 | — |
| The Provision of Barrow Campus Security ServicesSecurity services | Open | 21 Feb 2025 | £350,000 |
| Occupational Health Services ( Staff and Students)Health services | Awarded / complete | 16 Dec 2024 | — |
| For the provision of a Framework of Partners to deliver training and education services within The Project AcademyEducation and training services | Open | 6 Dec 2024 | £400,000 |
| 1191885Software package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 9 Sept 2024 | — |
| Citadels Project – University of CumbriaArchitectural | Open | 22 May 2024 | £55,000,000 |
| Digital Media Buying ServicesAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 14 Mar 2024 | — |
| Estates Multi Lot Consultancy FrameworkAncillary building services | Awarded / complete | 14 Mar 2024 | — |
| Barrow Campus ProjectArchitectural and related services | Awarded / complete | 14 Mar 2024 | — |
| Web Contents Management SystemIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 27 Feb 2024 | — |
| Leisure Management SystemSoftware package and information systems | Planned | 11 Jan 2024 | — |
| Project Management Services FrameworkConstruction project management services | Open | 29 Nov 2023 | £190,000 |
| Smart Campus Solution ( Carlisle and Barrow)Educational software package | Planned | 23 Mar 2023 | £1,000,000 |
| Catering Services, Internal and External Hospitality and Conferencing food and beverage provision.Beverage-serving services | Open | 12 Dec 2022 | £3,200,000 |
| University of Cumbria - Catering ServicesBeverage-serving services | Open | 3 Nov 2022 | £3,200,000 |
| Provision of External Audit Services for University of CumbriaAccounting services | Open | 31 Aug 2022 | £300,000 |
| Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor for the Citadels ( LOT1) and Barrow campus (LOT 2) ProjectsConstruction consultancy services | Open | 25 Nov 2021 | — |
| For the provision of project management services for th University of Cumbria's Citadels and Barrow Campus ProjectsConstruction project management services | Open | 13 Aug 2021 | — |
| Main Contractor for design and build services for the University of Cumbria's Citadel ProjectConstruction work for university buildings | Open | 5 Aug 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 (£63m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 3 award records on 3 procedures (3 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 8 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-1191885