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University of Essex: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: Royal Charter CompanyDfE school register: Higher education institutionsEducationEast of EnglandColchester

Official UK PPONPQBL-6931-JNGJCompanies HouseRC000652 ↗Websiteessex.ac.uk ↗

Open now0no live notices
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Notices, last 12 months8-33% vs prior 12 months (12)
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Top-3 supplier share6%of 34 awarded procedures · 103 suppliers
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34 awarded tenders, 103 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months1611 within 6 months · 14 estimated
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Published award value, 24m£13mnet · on 7 of 7 published values · top 5 = 96%
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What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting5 procedures · 25%
45 Construction work2 procedures · 10%
48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 10%
50 Repair and maintenance services2 procedures · 10%
64 Postal and telecommunications services2 procedures · 10%
66 Financial and insurance services2 procedures · 10%
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 10%
85 Health and social work services2 procedures · 10%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 20 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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  • Contract80%(16 notices)
    16 of 20 notices are Contract (80%).
  • Framework20%(4 notices)
    4 of 20 notices are Framework (20%).
Procedure route
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  • Direct award45%(9 notices)
    9 of 20 notices are Direct award (45%).
  • Open30%(6 notices)
    6 of 20 notices are Open (30%).
  • Route not published15%(3 notices)
    3 of 20 notices are Route not published (15%).
  • Limited / restricted5%(1 notice)
    1 of 20 notices is Limited / restricted (5%).
  • Selective5%(1 notice)
    1 of 20 notices is Selective (5%).
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.

1moderate · n=3100% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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Based on 4 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

49 daysmoderate · n=4
Notice amendments
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Based on 20 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

07 of 20 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Based on 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

5% below estimatemoderate · n=3

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
SSE Energy Supply Limitedframework/DPS on 225.9%04—
CorEnergy Limitedframework/DPS on 225.9%04—
Water Plus Limitedframework/DPS on 225.9%02—
Forbes Solicitorsframework/DPS on 112.9%17—
Weightmans LLPframework/DPS on 112.9%17—
Bevan Brittanframework/DPS on 112.9%17—
Eversheds LLPframework/DPS on 112.9%16—
Freeths LLPframework/DPS on 112.9%16—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 34 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 103 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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£13mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 7 of 7 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 96%; a further 6 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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£304k middle valuerobust · n=7Middle half £263k–£1.8m.
Largest published awards
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SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
T1170 - Advertising and MarketingHybrid News Limited27 Mar 20263 yrs · up to 7 yrs£8,333,333
≈ £2.8m/yr
Gas Maintenance Works and Remedial WorksAthena mechanical services ltd—3 yrs · up to 7 yrs£2,916,666 †
≈ £972k/yr
T1184 Blood Sample Collection and AnalysisRandox Laboratories Ltd30 Apr 20262 yrs · up to 6 yrs£745,238
≈ £373k/yr
Morocco Social Survey In Rural CommunitiesSocial Laboratory -SOLAB25 Nov 20255 mo · up to 0.6 yrs£303,894
Oxford Law Trove SubscriptionOxford University Press Limited19 Aug 20263 yrs£275,000
≈ £92k/yr

Contracts ending
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49 of 53 contracts carry an end date, 40 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
Electricity Supply and Additional ServicesDrax Energy Solutions Limited, SSE Energy Supply Limited, Total Energies Gas & Power25 Jan 2027 estimated£320,000,000 ceiling
Natural Gas SupplySSE Energy Supply Limited, Total Energies Gas & Power25 Jan 2027 estimated£200,000,000 ceiling
Supply of Metered and Unmetered Water, Metered and Unmetered Wastewater, Trade Effluent Services and Ancillary ServicesCastle Water Limited, Water Plus Limited25 Jan 2027 estimated£80,000,000 ceiling
Energy Efficiency SolutionsCorEnergy Limited, eEnergy Group plc, Procure Direct Ltd +125 Jan 2027 estimated£15,000,000 ceiling
On-Site Generation - Solar PhotovoltaicsCorEnergy Limited, Solarcrown Commercial Ltd25 Jan 2027 estimated£15,000,000 ceiling
On-Site Generation Heat PumpsCorEnergy Limited, JKN RENEWABLES LTD.25 Jan 2027 estimated£15,000,000 ceiling
Supply of Metering Services and Building Energy Management SoftwareINTELLIGENT BUILDING GROUP LTD25 Jan 2027 estimated£15,000,000 ceiling
T954 - Periodic Contract Cleaning Framework - Lot 1: Summer Period (July & September): Following end of tenancy move out of undergraduate students (July) and postgraduate students (September). Deep cleaning to bedrooms with and without ensuite bathrooms and scheduled “sparkle” cleaning to communal areas; consisting of shared bathrooms, communal kitchens, foyers, lobby’s, stairwells and corridors.Crystal Facilities Management26 Mar 2027 estimatedNot published
T954 - Periodic Contract Cleaning Framework - Lot 2: Summer Period (July – August): Regular service cleaning to residential areas during Event Essex conference period alongside our in-house cleaning team. Bidders may be required to provide additional staff for the last week of September.Crystal Facilities Management26 Mar 2027 estimatedNot published
T954 - Periodic Contract Cleaning Framework - Lot 3: Termly office cleaning in academic and administrative areas three times per academic year (December, April & August). Please note the current academic year runs from September 2022 to August 2023, therefore call off order no.1 for lot 3 will be for August 2023 only.Ever Brite Cleaning Services Ltd26 Mar 2027 estimatedNot published

Soonest 10 of 16 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 49 of 49 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Spectrophotometer SystemAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026—
Oxford Law Trove SubscriptionAwarded / complete19 Aug 2026—
Research: Multilingualism, Conflict and Conflict Resolution in AfricaAwarded / complete16 Jun 2026—
Student Engagement Analytics SystemAwarded / complete10 Jun 2026—
T1170 Advertising and MarketingAdvertising and marketing servicesAwarded / complete2 Jun 2026£8,333,333
Gas Maintenance Works and Remedial WorksAwarded / complete28 May 2026—
Renewable Energy Power Purchase AgreementEnergy and related servicesPlanning18 May 2026£108,330,000
T1148 - Blood Sample Collection and AnalysisBlood analysis servicesAwarded / complete7 May 2026£1,125,000
Morocco Social Survey In Rural CommunitiesSurvey servicesAwarded / complete17 Feb 2026£320,000
T1184 - IP20 Blood Sample CollectionBlood analysis servicesPlanning18 Dec 2025£1,125,000
Framework for the provision of Flooring Supplies and ServicesFramework2 lotsAdhesive tape of rubberised textilesAwarded / complete21 Oct 2025£60,000,000
Communications SolutionsFramework4 lotsAir-to-ground telecommunications servicesAwarded / complete11 Sept 2025£90,000,000
T1157 - CAS Shield SoftwareAwarded / complete8 Sept 2025—
T1121 - Card Acquiring Services 2025Financial transaction processing and clearing-house servicesPlanning11 Aug 2025£3,500,000
Robotic Overground Harness SystemAwarded / complete15 Jul 2025—
Scheduling SystemAwarded / complete17 Jun 2025—
Framework for the provision of Legal ServicesFramework7 lotsCertification servicesAwarded / complete10 Jun 2025£63,000,000
Print and Associated Services Framework to include Hybrid Mail and Digital Transformation SolutionsFrameworkArchiving servicesAwarded / complete23 May 2025£100,000,000
AppsAnywhereAwarded / complete21 May 2025—
T1142 - Finance System 2025 Direct AwardAwarded / complete21 May 2025—

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  • 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. 49 of 53 published contracts have an end date; 40 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.