University of Lincoln: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·East Midlands·Lincoln
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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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
34 awarded tenders, 36 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, consulting3 procedures · 11%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 4%32 Radio, television, communication1 procedures · 4%38 Laboratory, optical and precision1 procedures · 4%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 4%60 Transport services (except waste transport)1 procedures · 4%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 · 27 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 96% (26 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 4% (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 41% (11 notices)
- Route not published 19% (5 notices)
- Limited / restricted 15% (4 notices)
- Open 15% (4 notices)
- Selective 11% (3 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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 27 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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| Shakespeare Martineau LLP | 3 | 8.8% | 1 | 3 | 16 Jun 2026 |
| Veale Wasbrough Vizards LLP | 2 | 5.9% | 0 | 2 | 9 Jun 2021 |
| Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP | 2 | 5.9% | 0 | 2 | 9 Jun 2021 |
| Pinsent Masons LLP | 2 | 5.9% | 0 | 2 | 9 Jun 2021 |
| Birketts LLP | 2 | 5.9% | 0 | 2 | 9 Jun 2021 |
| Acorn Analytical Services | 1 | 2.9% | 1 | 1 | 2 Oct 2025 |
| GUARDIAN HYGIENE SERVICES LIMITED | 1 | 2.9% | 1 | 1 | 9 Jun 2026 |
| Maris Interiors LLP | 1 | 2.9% | 1 | 1 | 6 Aug 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 9% of 34 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 36 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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| Digital Technology Equipment Supply | XMA Limited | — | — | £7,000,000 † |
| Riseholme Shuttle Bus Service | P.C.Coaches of Lincoln Ltd | — | — | £500,000 † |
| Sorption Analysis Suite | Hiden Isochema Limited | — | — | £350,000 † |
| Remote Access to Academic Applications | AppsAnywhere Limited | 7 Nov 2025 | 3 yrs | £275,484 ≈ £92k/yr |
| Student Counselling Service | Health Assured | — | 3 yrs | £265,500 † ≈ £89k/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 · 22 of 33 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| University Signage | Allen Signs Limited | 30 Sept 2026 | £90,000 |
| Legal Services | Shakespeare Martineau LLP | 31 May 2027 | £100,000 |
| Legal Services | Freeths LLP | 15 Jun 2027 | £100,000 |
| Flushing of Little Used Water Outlets | GUARDIAN HYGIENE SERVICES LIMITED | 28 Jun 2027 | £95,040 |
| Asbestos Consultancy | Acorn Analytical Services | 31 Jul 2027 | £90,000 |
| Consumable Products | Bunzl UK Ltd trading as Greenham | 10 Aug 2027 | £90,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 35 of 35 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| 491 Internal Audit ServicesAuditing services | Awarded / complete | 18 Sept 2026 | £600,000 |
| Student Counselling Service | Awarded / complete | 9 Sept 2026 | — |
| Consumable Products | Awarded / complete | 7 Aug 2026 | — |
| Refurbishment works to David Chiddick Building | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2026 | — |
| Online Learning Platform | Awarded / complete | 24 Jul 2026 | — |
| E-Payment Services | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2026 | — |
| Motion Capture Camera | Awarded / complete | 1 Jul 2026 | — |
| Lecture Capture Software | Awarded / complete | 23 Jun 2026 | — |
| Legal Services | Awarded / complete | 17 Jun 2026 | — |
| Legal Services | Awarded / complete | 16 Jun 2026 | — |
| Flushing of Little Used Water Outlets | Awarded / complete | 9 Jun 2026 | — |
| 491 Internal Audit ServicesAuditing services | Cancelled | 29 May 2026 | £600,000 |
| Equipment Purchase - DSC2500 and TGA55 | Awarded / complete | 9 Apr 2026 | — |
| Dentistry (Ross Lucas) Consumables & Residual Equipment | Awarded / complete | 11 Mar 2026 | — |
| External Audit ServicesAuditing services | Awarded / complete | 6 Mar 2026 | £800,000 |
| Sleep Laboratory Monitoring Equipment | Awarded / complete | 2 Feb 2026 | — |
| Medical Task Trainers | Awarded / complete | 14 Jan 2026 | — |
| Portable and Handheld Ultrasound Equipment | Awarded / complete | 13 Jan 2026 | — |
| Anatomy Tables | Awarded / complete | 23 Dec 2025 | — |
| Remote Access to Academic Applications | Awarded / complete | 20 Nov 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 (£10m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 26 award records on 26 procedures (26 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 10 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 15 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: 22 of 33 published contracts carry a period end; 6 end within 18 months, 1 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (8 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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