University of Essex: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·East of England·Colchester
Official UK PPONPQBL-6931-JNGJWebsiteessex.ac.uk ↗
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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 5 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.
29 awarded tenders, 98 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, consulting8 procedures · 35%45 Construction work3 procedures · 13%50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 13%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 procedures · 13%30 Office and computing machinery2 procedures · 9%32 Radio, television, communication2 procedures · 9%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 9%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances2 procedures · 9%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 · 23 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 78% (18 notices)
- Framework 22% (5 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 39% (9 notices)
- Open 35% (8 notices)
- Route not published 13% (3 notices)
- Selective 9% (2 notices)
- Limited / restricted 4% (1 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 5 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 4 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 23 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 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| SSE Energy Supply Limited | 2 | 6.9% | 0 | 4 | 10 Jun 2024 |
| CorEnergy Limited | 2 | 6.9% | 0 | 4 | 10 Jun 2024 |
| Water Plus Limited | 2 | 6.9% | 0 | 2 | 10 Jun 2024 |
| Forbes Solicitors | 1 | 3.4% | 1 | 7 | 10 Jun 2025 |
| Weightmans LLP | 1 | 3.4% | 1 | 7 | 10 Jun 2025 |
| Bevan Brittan | 1 | 3.4% | 1 | 7 | 10 Jun 2025 |
| Eversheds LLP | 1 | 3.4% | 1 | 6 | 10 Jun 2025 |
| Freeths LLP | 1 | 3.4% | 1 | 6 | 10 Jun 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 29 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 98 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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| T1170 - Advertising and Marketing | Hybrid News Limited | 27 Mar 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 7 yrs | £8,333,333 ≈ £2.8m/yr |
| Gas Maintenance Works and Remedial Works | Athena mechanical services ltd | — | 3 yrs · up to 7 yrs | £2,916,666 † ≈ £972k/yr |
| T1075 - Event Triggered Data Collection | IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD | — | — | £1,500,447 † |
| Morocco Social Survey In Rural Communities | Social Laboratory -SOLAB | 25 Nov 2025 | 5 mo · up to 0.6 yrs | £303,894 |
| Oxford Law Trove Subscription | Oxford University Press Limited | 19 Aug 2026 | 3 yrs | £275,000 ≈ £92k/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 · 9 of 53 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| T1042 - Understanding Society Wave 17-22 | Thriva | 30 Jun 2027 | £962,790 |
| T1042 - Understanding Society Wave 17-22 | Verian Group UK Limited | 30 Jun 2027 | £49,635,913 |
Recent procedures
Latest 49 of 49 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Spectrophotometer System | Awarded / complete | 26 Aug 2026 | — |
| Oxford Law Trove Subscription | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2026 | — |
| Research: Multilingualism, Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Africa | Awarded / complete | 16 Jun 2026 | — |
| Student Engagement Analytics System | Awarded / complete | 10 Jun 2026 | — |
| T1170 Advertising and MarketingAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 2 Jun 2026 | £8,333,333 |
| Gas Maintenance Works and Remedial Works | Awarded / complete | 28 May 2026 | — |
| Renewable Energy Power Purchase AgreementEnergy and related services | Planning | 18 May 2026 | £108,330,000 |
| T1148 - Blood Sample Collection and AnalysisBlood analysis services | Awarded / complete | 7 May 2026 | £1,125,000 |
| Morocco Social Survey In Rural CommunitiesSurvey services | Awarded / complete | 17 Feb 2026 | £320,000 |
| T1184 - IP20 Blood Sample CollectionBlood analysis services | Planning | 18 Dec 2025 | £1,125,000 |
| Framework for the provision of Flooring Supplies and ServicesAdhesive tape of rubberised textiles | Awarded / complete | 21 Oct 2025 | £60,000,000 |
| Communications SolutionsAir-to-ground telecommunications services | Awarded / complete | 11 Sept 2025 | £90,000,000 |
| T1157 - CAS Shield Software | Awarded / complete | 8 Sept 2025 | — |
| T1121 - Card Acquiring Services 2025Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services | Planning | 11 Aug 2025 | £3,500,000 |
| Robotic Overground Harness System | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2025 | — |
| Scheduling System | Awarded / complete | 17 Jun 2025 | — |
| Framework for the provision of Legal ServicesCertification services | Awarded / complete | 10 Jun 2025 | £63,000,000 |
| Print and Associated Services Framework to include Hybrid Mail and Digital Transformation SolutionsArchiving services | Awarded / complete | 23 May 2025 | £100,000,000 |
| AppsAnywhere | Awarded / complete | 21 May 2025 | — |
| T1142 - Finance System 2025 Direct Award | Awarded / complete | 21 May 2025 | — |
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 (£225m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 29 award records on 15 procedures (11 to a single canonical supplier, 18 multi-supplier). 2 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 4 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: 9 of 53 published contracts carry a period end; 2 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (9 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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