UNIVERSITY OF DERBY: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)DfE school register: Higher education institutionsEducationEast MidlandsDerby

Companies House03079282 ↗Websitederby.ac.uk ↗

What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 18 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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  • Contract94%(17 notices)
    17 of 18 notices are Contract (94%).
  • Framework6%(1 notice)
    1 of 18 notices is Framework (6%).
Procedure route
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  • Direct award33%(6 notices)
    6 of 18 notices are Direct award (33%).
  • Open33%(6 notices)
    6 of 18 notices are Open (33%).
  • Selective17%(3 notices)
    3 of 18 notices are Selective (17%).
  • Route not published11%(2 notices)
    2 of 18 notices are Route not published (11%).
  • Limited / restricted6%(1 notice)
    1 of 18 notices is Limited / restricted (6%).
Bids per lot, few lots
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Based on 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Fewer than 5 lots: a median, not a typical figure.

4moderate · n=30% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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Based on 3 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

95 daysmoderate · n=3
Notice amendments
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Based on 18 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

06 of 18 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Based on 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

0% at estimateindicative · n=2

Who wins here
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All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Seddon Construction Limited213.6%02121 Aug 2024
Academia Ltd152.6%41526 Aug 2026
Softcat Plc81.4%089 May 2024
GLOBAL FIRE SYSTEMS LIMITED71.2%2727 Mar 2026
XMA Limited71.2%078 Aug 2024
DOVETAIL AND SLATE LIMITEDframework/DPS on 161%2618 Oct 2024
GVAV Limited61%1629 Jan 2025
UCAS Media Ltd61%0614 Feb 2024

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 8% of 580 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 460 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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£2.0mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 7 of 7 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 91%; a further 5 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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£324k middle valuerobust · n=7Middle half £195k–£388k.
Largest published awards
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SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
HUDL Sports Performance and Analysis Software (Enhanced)Hudl—3 yrs£524,732
≈ £175k/yr
Provision of Education and Training Technologies SuiteONEADVANCED LIMITED——£451,641 †
Consultancy ProjectCBRE Limited—1 yrs£325,000
≈ £325k/yr
PebblePad ePortfolio systemPEBBLE LEARNING LTD—2.7 yrs£323,505
≈ £121k/yr
Managed Email Delivery PlatformQuba Digital Limited—3.8 yrs£240,000
≈ £63k/yr

Contracts ending
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615 of 654 contracts carry an end date, 34 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
eTrackr LicenceVLE SUPPORT LIMITED27 Nov 2026£41,775
CMIS Timetabling Items RenewalAdvanced Business Software & Solution Ltd30 Nov 2026£159,817
Checkpoint Firewall SupportBYTES TECHNOLOGY GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED3 Dec 2026£104,026
Pitch MaintenanceREPLAY Maintenance Ltd14 Dec 2026£25,920
One to one Executive CoachingAdvance HE16 Dec 2026 estimated£250,000 ceiling
One to one Executive CoachingMelissa Roberts Ltd16 Dec 2026 estimated£250,000 ceiling
One to one Executive CoachingNew Level Results Ltd16 Dec 2026 estimated£250,000 ceiling
One to one Executive CoachingNotion Limited16 Dec 2026 estimated£250,000 ceiling
One to one Executive CoachingOn The Up Consulting Ltd16 Dec 2026 estimated£250,000 ceiling
One to one Executive CoachingPrimeast Ltd16 Dec 2026 estimated£250,000 ceiling

Soonest 10 of 76 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 55 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Diagnostic Assessment Reports _ SpLDFrameworkMiscellaneous servicesAwarded / complete10 Jan 2025£297,000
Catering Services to the New Business SchoolCatering servicesOpen27 Sept 2024£1,500,000
Print Services FrameworkFramework3 lotsPrinting and related servicesOpen17 Jul 2024£1,300,000
Travel Management ServicesTravel agency and similar servicesPlanned8 May 2024—
Marketing and Advertising ServicesAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete27 Nov 2023—
Sports Coaches7 lotsCoaching servicesAwarded / complete2 Oct 2023£210,800
Help to Grow Programme - Mentor RecruitmentDPSRecruitment servicesAwarded / complete4 Sept 2023£910,000
Virtual Learning EnvironmentTurkish bath servicesAwarded / complete30 Aug 2023£1,000,000
Security equipment maintenanceFrameworkRepair and maintenance servicesOpen6 Jul 2023£1,200,000
M&E FrameworkFramework7 lotsMechanical and electrical engineering servicesOpen27 Jun 2023£6,000,000
Banking ServicesBanking servicesOpen23 Jun 2023£1,200,000
Banking ServicesBanking and investment servicesPlanned16 May 2023£1,600,000
One to one Executive CoachingFrameworkCoaching servicesAwarded / complete2 Feb 2023£250,000
Sustainable Energy InfrastructureEnergy and related servicesPlanned1 Feb 2023—
Occupational Health Services for StaffHealth servicesAwarded / complete15 Sept 2022£200,000
EXECUTIVE AND ACADEMIC RECRUITMENTFramework2 lotsRecruitment servicesAwarded / complete9 Sept 2022—
End Point Assessors for Minerals Products Technician ApprenticesFrameworkServices furnished by businessAwarded / complete18 Aug 2022£281,600
Supply of an Apprenticeship systemSoftware package and information systemsPlanned11 Jul 2022£500,000
CHINESE TAX CONSULTANCYTax consultancy servicesAwarded / complete29 Jun 2022£500,000
India ConsultancyRecruitment servicesAwarded / complete7 Jun 2022£400,000

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Contracts Finder adds 571 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. 615 of 654 published contracts have an end date; 34 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.