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 ↗

Open now0no live notices

Notices, last 12 months10+25% vs prior 12 months (8)

Top-3 supplier share8%of 580 awarded procedures · 460 suppliers

580 awarded tenders, 460 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months7636 within 6 months · 21 estimated

Published award value, 24m£2.0mnet · on 7 of 7 published values · top 5 = 91%

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

48 Software package and information systems34 procedures · 189%

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting16 procedures · 89%

71 Architectural, construction, engineering4 procedures · 22%

34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 17%

80 Education and training services3 procedures · 17%

22 Printed matter and related products2 procedures · 11%

30 Office and computing machinery2 procedures · 11%

33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 11%

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

Contract94%(17 notices)
17 of 18 notices are Contract (94%).
Framework6%(1 notice)
1 of 18 notices is Framework (6%).

Procedure route

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

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

Based on 3 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

95 daysmoderate · n=3

Notice amendments

Based on 18 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

06 of 18 notices amended

Award vs estimate

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

Supplier	Procedures	Share	Last 24m	Award records	Last activity
Seddon Construction Limited	21	3.6%	0	21	21 Aug 2024
Academia Ltd	15	2.6%	4	15	26 Aug 2026
Softcat Plc	8	1.4%	0	8	9 May 2024
GLOBAL FIRE SYSTEMS LIMITED	7	1.2%	2	7	27 Mar 2026
XMA Limited	7	1.2%	0	7	8 Aug 2024
DOVETAIL AND SLATE LIMITEDframework/DPS on 1	6	1%	2	6	18 Oct 2024
GVAV Limited	6	1%	1	6	29 Jan 2025
UCAS Media Ltd	6	1%	0	6	14 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)

£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)

£324k middle valuerobust · n=7Middle half £195k–£388k.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
HUDL Sports Performance and Analysis Software (Enhanced)	Hudl	—	3 yrs	£524,732 ≈ £175k/yr
Provision of Education and Training Technologies Suite	ONEADVANCED LIMITED	—	—	£451,641 †
Consultancy Project	CBRE Limited	—	1 yrs	£325,000 ≈ £325k/yr
PebblePad ePortfolio system	PEBBLE LEARNING LTD	—	2.7 yrs	£323,505 ≈ £121k/yr
Managed Email Delivery Platform	Quba 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

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
eTrackr Licence	VLE SUPPORT LIMITED	27 Nov 2026	£41,775
CMIS Timetabling Items Renewal	Advanced Business Software & Solution Ltd	30 Nov 2026	£159,817
Checkpoint Firewall Support	BYTES TECHNOLOGY GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED	3 Dec 2026	£104,026
Pitch Maintenance	REPLAY Maintenance Ltd	14 Dec 2026	£25,920
One to one Executive Coaching	Advance HE	16 Dec 2026 estimated	£250,000 ceiling
One to one Executive Coaching	Melissa Roberts Ltd	16 Dec 2026 estimated	£250,000 ceiling
One to one Executive Coaching	New Level Results Ltd	16 Dec 2026 estimated	£250,000 ceiling
One to one Executive Coaching	Notion Limited	16 Dec 2026 estimated	£250,000 ceiling
One to one Executive Coaching	On The Up Consulting Ltd	16 Dec 2026 estimated	£250,000 ceiling
One to one Executive Coaching	Primeast Ltd	16 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

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
Fire Risk SurveysFire-prevention services	Awarded / complete	28 Apr 2022	£240,000
Leadership and Management TrainingStaff training services	Open	22 Apr 2022	£150,000
Internal & External Audit ServicesFramework2 lotsFinancial auditing services	Awarded / complete	5 Apr 2022	£1,900,000
Payment Processing AgentsFinancial transaction processing and clearing-house services	Awarded / complete	25 Mar 2022	—
Student Bus ServicesFramework2 lotsRoad transport services	Awarded / complete	14 Feb 2022	£5,000,000
Sports Centre ManagementSport-related services	Awarded / complete	7 Jan 2022	£600,000
Mechanical & Electrical Goods and Services2 lotsElectrical installation work	Awarded / complete	4 Jan 2022	£4,000,000
Security ServicesSecurity services	Open	10 Nov 2021	—
Fire Detection & Safety Systems Servicing &MaintenanceFire-detection systems	Awarded / complete	5 Nov 2021	£600,000
Library Systems ReplacementIndustry specific software package	Awarded / complete	13 Oct 2021	£500,000

Search all 55 procedures for this authority →

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.