University of East Anglia: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·East of England·Norwich
Companies HouseRC000651 ↗
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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 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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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.
141 awarded tenders, 188 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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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, consulting4 procedures · 3%15 Food, drink, tobacco3 procedures · 2%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services3 procedures · 2%71 Architectural, construction, engineering3 procedures · 2%09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas2 procedures · 1%34 Transport equipment and products2 procedures · 1%45 Construction work2 procedures · 1%60 Transport services (except waste transport)2 procedures · 1%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 · 141 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 96% (135 notices)
- Framework 4% (6 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.
- Direct award 69% (97 notices)
- Route not published 16% (22 notices)
- Open 6% (8 notices)
- Selective 6% (8 notices)
- Limited / restricted 4% (6 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 7 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 7 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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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 141 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 5 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| R.G. CARTER LIMITED | 4 | 2.8% | 2 | 5 | 17 Aug 2026 |
| Jisc Services Ltd | 3 | 2.1% | 3 | 3 | 16 Sept 2025 |
| Elsevier B.V. | 3 | 2.1% | 3 | 3 | 18 May 2026 |
| Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | 3 | 2.1% | 3 | 3 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| Hybrid News Limited | 2 | 1.4% | 2 | 2 | 28 Sept 2026 |
| Templar Executives Limited | 2 | 1.4% | 2 | 2 | 6 Nov 2025 |
| STUDENT ROOM GROUP LIMITED | 2 | 1.4% | 2 | 2 | 28 Sept 2026 |
| Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | 2 | 1.4% | 2 | 2 | 20 Oct 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 141 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 188 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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| Waste Management Services | Norse Eastern Limited | 5 Jun 2026 | 10 yrs · up to 15 yrs | £7,312,696 ≈ £731k/yr |
| Grocery, Frozen and Chilled | BFS GROUP LIMITED | 27 May 2026 | 2 yrs | £1,416,666 ≈ £708k/yr |
| Legal Services | MILLS AND REEVE | 16 Sept 2026 | 1.3 yrs | £1,331,400 ≈ £1.1m/yr |
| CCTV and Access Control Maintenance | Check Your Security Ltd | 27 Nov 2025 | 4 yrs | £650,000 ≈ £163k/yr |
| Hot Beverage, Equipment and Maintenance | The Nairobi Coffee & Tea Co Ltd | 15 May 2026 | 4 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £494,629 ≈ £124k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 122 of 182 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| MAYTAS Apprenticeship Student Record System | Tribal Education Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £33,002 |
| Creative Campaign Development | ARK | 30 Sept 2026 | £130,000 |
| Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | 6 Oct 2026 | £190,000 |
| Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital | 15 Oct 2026 | £102,690 |
| Planning & Listed Building advice & application submissions | Bidwells | 31 Oct 2026 | £46,380 |
| Workload Allocation Model System (WAMS) | Simitive Limited | 2 Nov 2026 | £109,434 |
| Sainsbury Centre - Brand Identity Brief | NORTH ASSOCIATES LTD | 17 Nov 2026 | £97,014 |
| Estates Facilities Management System FSI GO and Consultancy Days | MRI Software Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £33,364 |
| Participant recruitment and management via Prolific | Prolific Academic Limited | 1 Dec 2026 | £37,625 |
| To complete Flood drying out remediation measure within New Science Building | AJS Restoration Services Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £100,000 |
Soonest 10 of 40 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 168 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£165m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 149 award records on 122 procedures (124 to a single canonical supplier, 24 multi-supplier, 1 with no supplier published). 2 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 110 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: 122 of 182 published contracts carry a period end; 40 end within 18 months, 14 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (8 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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