University of Kent: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)Companies House: Royal Charter CompanyDfE school register: Higher education institutionsEducationSouth East EnglandCanterbury, KentRan 1 procurement for other authorities

Official UK PPONPDYN-9654-JPQJCompanies House00986729 ↗Websitekent.ac.uk ↗

Open now2next deadline 20 Nov 2026

Notices, last 12 months97+80% vs prior 12 months (54)

Typical bids per lot1.550% single-bid · median of 16 lots

Based on 16 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Top-3 supplier share7%of 183 awarded procedures · 172 suppliers

183 awarded tenders, 172 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months92 within 6 months

Published award value, 24m£19mnet · on 56 of 60 published values · 4 repeated amounts set aside · top 5 = 57%

Open notices

2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

Notice	Deadline	Days left	Published value
High-Speed Spectrometer System	20 Nov 2026	5d	£115,833
Mandatory Training for students enrolled on Healthcare programmes Framework AgreementFramework2 lots	8 Dec 2026	23d	£2,800,000

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

45 Construction work15 procedures · 10%

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting6 procedures · 4%

48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 3%

72 IT services: consulting, software, internet4 procedures · 3%

80 Education and training services3 procedures · 2% · 1 open

60 Transport services (except waste transport)3 procedures · 2%

66 Financial and insurance services3 procedures · 2%

38 Laboratory, optical and precision2 procedures · 1% · 1 open

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 151 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool

Contract97%(147 notices)
147 of 151 notices are Contract (97%).
Framework3%(4 notices)
4 of 151 notices are Framework (3%).

Procedure route

Direct award69%(104 notices)
104 of 151 notices are Direct award (69%).
Open21%(32 notices)
32 of 151 notices are Open (21%).
Limited / restricted5%(7 notices)
7 of 151 notices are Limited / restricted (5%).
Route not published5%(7 notices)
7 of 151 notices are Route not published (5%).
Selective1%(1 notice)
1 of 151 notices is Selective (1%).

Typical bids per lot

Based on 16 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

1.5robust · n=1650% of lots drew a single bid

Deadline → award

Based on 16 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

29 daysrobust · n=16

Notice amendments

Based on 149 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

025 of 149 notices amended

Award vs estimate

Based on 9 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

7.5% below estimaterobust · n=9

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
MILLS AND REEVE	4	2.2%	4	4	21 May 2026
Stonepoint Limited	4	2.2%	2	4	22 May 2026
Surefix Construction company (Kent) Ltd	4	2.2%	1	4	4 Jun 2026
ERNST & YOUNG LLP	3	1.6%	3	3	10 Sept 2026
Hybrid News Limited	3	1.6%	3	3	8 Jul 2026
Zeelo Ltdframework/DPS on 1	3	1.6%	2	5	10 Nov 2025
Chalkwell Coach Hireframework/DPS on 1	2	1.1%	2	4	10 Nov 2025
Bayliss Executive Travel Limitedframework/DPS on 1	2	1.1%	2	3	10 Nov 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 183 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 172 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)

£19mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 56 of 60 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 57%; a further 73 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.

Typical single-supplier award (24m)

£117k middle valuerobust · n=56Middle half £52k–£229k; 4 awards with ambiguous equal values within a procedure excluded from both figures.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
Improvements to the Agent Management and Admissions System	Stive Technologies Limited	—	4 yrs · up to 6 yrs	£4,000,000 ≈ £1.0m/yr
AI platform for use by Staff and Students at The University Of Kent	OPENAI UK LTD	10 Feb 2026	2.2 yrs · up to 5.2 yrs	£3,257,010 ≈ £1.5m/yr
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 †
Database and Integration Software	Boomi Corporation Limited	21 Oct 2026	5 yrs · up to 7 yrs	£776,514 ≈ £155k/yr

Contracts ending
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73 of 89 contracts carry an end date, 1 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
Temporary Agency Staff	Morgan Jones Ltd	30 Apr 2027	£1,481,394
Temporary Agency Staff	Morgan Jones Ltd	30 Apr 2027	£1,481,394
Maintenance of Air Conditioning & Chillers	AMD FM	31 Jul 2027	£101,520
Graduation Videography Services	REDSHARK LIMITED	31 Jul 2027	£59,322
High Speed Camera System	SPECIALISED IMAGING LIMITED	23 Aug 2027	£222,415
Removal & Relocation Services	Kelerbay Limited t/a Doree Bonner International	26 Oct 2027	£150,000
Worktribe Pre-award and Reporting modules	Worktribe	1 Nov 2027	£77,903
External Audit Services	Grant Thornton UK LLP	30 Nov 2027	£765,000
Employee Assistance Programme	Pluxee UK Ltd	26 Jan 2028	£79,000

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 171 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
Audio Visual: System Design/Consultancy, Supplies, Installation and MaintenanceAudio-visual equipment	Awarded / complete	14 Jul 2026	—
Project: HESA Data Futures	Awarded / complete	14 Jul 2026	—
Taxi Services to the University of KentTaxi services	Awarded / complete	9 Jul 2026	£230,000
Engagement and Marketing Activities	Awarded / complete	8 Jul 2026	—
Purchcase of AVIIIHD console	Awarded / complete	25 Jun 2026	—
Removal & Relocation ServicesRelocation services	Open	22 Jun 2026	£150,000
Film and Media Equipment	Awarded / complete	17 Jun 2026	—
Replacement of Roof Covering to the Sports Centre & Stacey BuildingsBituminous roof-covering work	Awarded / complete	10 Jun 2026	£1,100,000

Search all 171 procedures for this authority →

Contracts Finder adds 75 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. 73 of 89 published contracts have an end date; 1 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.