University of Kent: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·South East England·Canterbury, Kent
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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 16 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.
104 awarded tenders, 96 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
45 Construction work14 procedures · 12%51 Installation services (except software)3 procedures · 3%60 Transport services (except waste transport)3 procedures · 3%98 Other community, social and personal services3 procedures · 3%34 Transport equipment and products2 procedures · 2%37 Musical instruments, sport, games2 procedures · 2%42 Industrial machinery2 procedures · 2%44 Construction structures and materials2 procedures · 2%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 · 118 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 99% (117 notices)
- Framework 1% (1 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 70% (83 notices)
- Open 22% (26 notices)
- Limited / restricted 6% (7 notices)
- Selective 1% (1 notices)
- Route not published 1% (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 16 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 15 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 118 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 11 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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| Hybrid News Limited | 3 | 2.9% | 3 | 3 | 8 Jul 2026 |
| AD ESSE CONSULTING LIMITED | 2 | 1.9% | 2 | 2 | 16 Mar 2026 |
| PEOPLE AND PROMPT LTD | 2 | 1.9% | 2 | 2 | 11 May 2026 |
| Refinitiv Limited | 2 | 1.9% | 2 | 2 | 8 Oct 2025 |
| Mercer | 2 | 1.9% | 2 | 2 | 26 May 2026 |
| BRUKER UK LIMITED | 2 | 1.9% | 2 | 2 | 23 Jun 2026 |
| LTIMINDTREE UK LIMITED | 2 | 1.9% | 2 | 2 | 11 Dec 2025 |
| Grok Global Services Inc | 2 | 1.9% | 2 | 2 | 21 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 104 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 96 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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| Engagement and Marketing Activities | Hybrid News Limited | 28 May 2026 | 11 mo | £1,500,000 |
| Audio Visual: System Design/Consultancy, Supplies, Installation and Maintenance | Roche Audio Visual | — | — | £979,636 † |
| Managed Launderette Service | Washco | — | — | £672,000 † |
| Gym Equipment | Technogym UK Ltd | — | — | £575,091 † |
| Peel Role Play | Peel Roleplay | 20 Jul 2026 | 5 yrs | £376,700 ≈ £75k/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 · 20 of 41 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| High Speed Camera System | SPECIALISED IMAGING LIMITED | 23 Aug 2027 | £222,415 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 139 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| High Speed Camera SystemCameras | Awarded / complete | 20 Aug 2026 | £272,500 |
| Care-full Synthesis | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2026 | — |
| Set up of Project SusPack | Awarded / complete | 7 Aug 2026 | — |
| KBS Strategic Support - Degree Apprenticeship Director | Awarded / complete | 31 Jul 2026 | — |
| Digital Certificates Annual Licence Renewal | Awarded / complete | 29 Jul 2026 | — |
| Mobile Phone ProvisionMobile-telephone services | Awarded / complete | 29 Jul 2026 | — |
| Fire Risk Actions WorksFire-prevention installation works | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | £400,000 |
| Ingram Conversion of Office into Laboratory WorksLaboratory building construction work | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | £150,000 |
| Keynes College Psychology Laboratory Improvement WorksLaboratory building construction work | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | £120,000 |
| Installation of Hostile Vehicle Mitigation Bollards - University PlazaErection of road-barriers | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | £100,000 |
| Lift Modernisation - Block D Templeman LibraryLift installation work | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | £630,000 |
| Accommodation Kitchen Refurbishments - Darwin CollegeInstallation of fitted kitchens | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | £620,000 |
| Replacement Windows Rutherford ExtensionInstallation of windows | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | £150,000 |
| Replacement Roof Covering - Block L - Keynes CollegeRoof repair and maintenance work | Awarded / complete | 28 Jul 2026 | £125,000 |
| Grok Global Services In-country office Malaysia | Awarded / complete | 27 Jul 2026 | — |
| Peel Role Play | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | — |
| Gym EquipmentGymnasium equipment | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2026 | — |
| IDP Connect | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
| Supply of Books and e-BooksLibrary books | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
| Audio Visual: System Design/Consultancy, Supplies, Installation and MaintenanceAudio-visual equipment | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | — |
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 (£28m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 98 award records on 94 procedures (97 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 8 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 52 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: 20 of 41 published contracts carry a period end; 1 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (4 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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