University of Leeds: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: Royal Charter CompanyDfE school register: Higher education institutionsEducationYorkshire and the HumberLeeds

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Open now0no live notices
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months9-57% vs prior 12 months (21)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot1.550% single-bid · 4 bid reports
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share11%of 80 awarded procedures · 89 suppliers
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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.

80 awarded tenders, 89 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£3.9mnet · on 8 of 9 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 96%
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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 buy
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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

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

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 100% (30 notices)
Procedure route
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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.

  • Open 43% (13 notices)
  • Route not published 20% (6 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 17% (5 notices)
  • Selective 13% (4 notices)
  • Direct award 7% (2 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

1.5moderate · n=450% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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 30 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

010 of 30 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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.

Last 24 months.

16.7% below estimatemoderate · n=3

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Cranfield University45%0526 Apr 2024
Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd33.8%2320 Feb 2025
Oxford Instruments22.5%1216 Jan 2025
PA CONSULTING SERVICES LTD22.5%1216 Apr 2025
BRUKER UK LIMITED22.5%0321 Sept 2022
Intelligent Ultrasound22.5%0211 Mar 2021
Enviro Technology Services Ltd11.3%111 Sept 2025
Tescan11.3%1117 Oct 2024

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 80 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 89 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£3.9mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 8 of 9 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 96%; a further 1 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£53k inc. VAT, kept apart).
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£126k middle valuerobust · n=8Middle half £59k–£415k.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 154 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Provision of Livestock Feed for PigsPrepared animal feeds for farm and other animalsPlanned20 Feb 2025£5,500,000
2023/24-4173 Supply of a Materials Science Physical Properties Measurement SystemInstruments for checking physical characteristicsAwarded / complete20 Feb 2025£1,120,000
2023-24/4174 - Supply of a Scanning Precession Electron Diffraction (SPED) systemScanning electron microscopesAwarded / complete20 Feb 2025£360,000
UPG-CONT-ARC 3 controller upgradeMicroscopesAwarded / complete16 Jan 2025—
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Energy Dispersive X-ray (EDX) elemental analysis systemScanning electron microscopesAwarded / complete15 Jan 2025—
Gas Analysers x33 lotsGas-analysis apparatusOpen28 Nov 2024£300,000
Cloud Microphysical Measurement Instruments x33 lotsLaboratoryOpen21 Nov 2024£355,441
FAAM Spectral Radiometers v2"Apparatus for measuring radiationAwarded / complete17 Oct 2024—
Nanomanipulator upgrade for Analytical Cryo enabled versatile Focused ion beam / Scanning Electron Microscope instrumentScanning electron microscopesAwarded / complete17 Oct 2024—
PE2024-24/4406 IT Service Support for NIHR Learn Development, Infrastructure & Hosting2 lotsIT services: consultingOpen8 Oct 2024£800,000
202425 4358 - Tuneable Diode Laser Absorption SpectrometerSpectrometersOpen26 Sept 2024£250,000
Internal AuditAuditing servicesAwarded / complete16 Sept 2024—
202324 3027 - Centrifuges4 lotsLaboratory centrifuges and accessoriesAwarded / complete29 Jul 2024—
202324 4118 - Radiometer Blister Development Specification for the FAAM Airborne LaboratoryEngineering design servicesOpen23 Jul 2024£100,000
Coaching and Facilitation for Executive Education TenderFramework2 lotsBusiness and management consultancy and related servicesOpen28 Jun 2024£210,000
202324 3384 - Supply of a Molecular size and Fluorescence AnalyserAnalysis apparatusOpen27 Jun 2024£210,000
Campus Reimagined: Masterplan FrameworkFrameworkAdvisory architectural servicesOpen21 Jun 2024£1,500,000
Off-Site Renewables Phase 1 (Corporate Power Purchase Agreement)ElectricityOpen14 Jun 2024£34,000,000
PE2023-24/3293 Virtual Platform for Student EngagementSoftware package and information systemsOpen13 May 2024£250,000
Media Enhanced Learning systemMultimedia software packagePlanned2 May 2024—

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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 (£149m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 9 award records on 9 procedures (9 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 8 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 1 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: 1 of 104 published contracts carry a period end; 0 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (33 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-COH-RC000658GB-FTS-105031GB-FTS-111292GB-FTS-117048GB-FTS-117071GB-FTS-134988GB-FTS-157739GB-FTS-16479GB-FTS-17467GB-FTS-185765GB-FTS-1890GB-FTS-19309GB-FTS-34441GB-FTS-34443GB-FTS-34593GB-FTS-36457GB-FTS-42460GB-FTS-47078GB-FTS-47837GB-FTS-54985GB-FTS-54988GB-FTS-63935GB-FTS-71713GB-FTS-72840

+9 further identifiers not listed here.

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PDVB-8476-PXMZ