University of Cumbria: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

DfE school register: Higher education institutionsEducationNorth West England-Carlisle

Companies House1191885 ↗

Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months0-100% vs prior 12 months (5)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Published award value, 24m£1.7mnet · on 2 of 3 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
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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 buy
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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

How they buy
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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

Commercial tool
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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)
Procedure route
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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)
Typical bids per lot
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

2.5indicative · n=20% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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.

Last 24 months.

34 of 5 notices amended

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Latus Group (IDC) Ltd112.5%1116 Dec 2024
Malvern House International Ltd112.5%1131 Mar 2025
Education Cubed Ltd framework/DPS on 1112.5%118 Apr 2025
Terminalfour112.5%0127 Feb 2024
Day Architectural Ltd  framework/DPS on 1112.5%0114 Mar 2024
Howarth Litchfield   framework/DPS on 1112.5%0114 Mar 2024
Wilson Mason & Partnersframework/DPS on 1112.5%0114 Mar 2024
Align Property Partners   framework/DPS on 1112.5%0114 Mar 2024

8 awarded procedures across 15 suppliers — too few to describe concentration.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£1.7mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 2 of 3 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
For the provision of an Embedded College offering Integrated Courses ECICMalvern House International Ltd——£1,500,000 †
Occupational Therapy ServicesLatus Group (IDC) Ltd——£185,000 †

Recent procedures

Latest 20 of 20 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Digital Media Buying Services (2025)Framework2 lotsMarketing management consultancy servicesAwarded / complete8 Apr 2025—
For the provision of an Embedded College offering Integrated Courses ECICEducation and training servicesAwarded / complete31 Mar 2025—
The Provision of Barrow Campus Security ServicesSecurity servicesOpen21 Feb 2025£350,000
Occupational Health Services ( Staff and Students)Health servicesAwarded / complete16 Dec 2024—
For the provision of a Framework of Partners to deliver training and education services within The Project AcademyFramework10 lotsEducation and training servicesOpen6 Dec 2024£400,000
1191885Software package and information systemsAwarded / complete9 Sept 2024—
Citadels Project – University of Cumbriacentral purchasing bodyArchitecturalOpen22 May 2024£55,000,000
Digital Media Buying Services2 lotsAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete14 Mar 2024—
Estates Multi Lot Consultancy FrameworkFrameworkcentral purchasing body7 lotsAncillary building servicesAwarded / complete14 Mar 2024—
Barrow Campus ProjectArchitectural and related servicesAwarded / complete14 Mar 2024—
Web Contents Management SystemIT services: consultingAwarded / complete27 Feb 2024—
Leisure Management SystemSoftware package and information systemsPlanned11 Jan 2024—
Project Management Services FrameworkFrameworkConstruction project management servicesOpen29 Nov 2023£190,000
Smart Campus Solution ( Carlisle and Barrow)Educational software packagePlanned23 Mar 2023£1,000,000
Catering Services, Internal and External Hospitality and Conferencing food and beverage provision.Beverage-serving servicesOpen12 Dec 2022£3,200,000
University of Cumbria - Catering ServicesBeverage-serving servicesOpen3 Nov 2022£3,200,000
Provision of External Audit Services for University of CumbriaAccounting servicesOpen31 Aug 2022£300,000
Cost Manager/Quantity Surveyor for the Citadels ( LOT1) and Barrow campus (LOT 2) Projects2 lotsConstruction consultancy servicesOpen25 Nov 2021—
For the provision of project management services for th University of Cumbria's Citadels and Barrow Campus Projects4 lotsConstruction project management servicesOpen13 Aug 2021—
Main Contractor for design and build services for the University of Cumbria's Citadel ProjectConstruction work for university buildingsOpen5 Aug 2021—

Search all 20 procedures for this authority →

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.

GB-FTS-106238GB-FTS-114365GB-FTS-24680GB-FTS-25514GB-FTS-66445GB-FTS-70528

Canonical page id: GB-COH-1191885