University of Northumbria at Newcastle: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 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.
52 awarded tenders, 128 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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
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
38 Laboratory, optical and precision5 procedures · 11%80 Education and training services4 procedures · 9%71 Architectural, construction, engineering3 procedures · 7%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting3 procedures · 7%30 Office and computing machinery2 procedures · 5%42 Industrial machinery2 procedures · 5%50 Repair and maintenance services2 procedures · 5%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 5%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 · 44 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.
Contract91%(40 notices)
40 of 44 notices are Contract (91%).Framework9%(4 notices)
4 of 44 notices are Framework (9%).
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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.
Limited / restricted30%(13 notices)
13 of 44 notices are Limited / restricted (30%).Direct award25%(11 notices)
11 of 44 notices are Direct award (25%).Open20%(9 notices)
9 of 44 notices are Open (20%).Route not published20%(9 notices)
9 of 44 notices are Route not published (20%).Selective5%(2 notices)
2 of 44 notices are Selective (5%).
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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 2 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 44 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited | 3 | 5.8% | 3 | 3 | — |
| Softcat Plc | 3 | 5.8% | 2 | 3 | — |
| Wagstaff Bros Limited | 2 | 3.8% | 2 | 2 | 19 Aug 2026 |
| BMG LABTECH LIMITED | 2 | 3.8% | 2 | 2 | 28 Jan 2026 |
| Global Life Sciences Solutions Operations UK Ltd | 2 | 3.8% | 2 | 2 | 27 Jan 2026 |
| Rider Levett Bucknall Ltd | 2 | 3.8% | 1 | 3 | — |
| Atkins Limited | 2 | 3.8% | 0 | 3 | — |
| Esh Construction | 2 | 3.8% | 0 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 15% of 52 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 128 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| Call-Off terms and conditions for the supply of Equipment, and/or Materials and/or Services | Illumina Cambridge Ltd | — | — | £300,000 † |
| OXFORD INSTRUMENTS UK - TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF QUOTATION AND SALE FOR GOODS AND SERVICES - May 2020 onwards | Oxford Instruments Nanotechnology Tools Limited | — | — | £290,000 † |
| NEEST Aruba Network Equipment under Lot 5 JISC Network Equipment Framework | Softcat Plc | — | — | £262,498 † |
| Call-Off terms and conditions for the supply of High Value Laboratory Equipment | FEI UK Limited | — | — | £220,820 † |
| Glass Meeting Pods for Coach Lane Campus | Wagstaff Bros Limited | — | 2 mo | £129,166 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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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.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
Published end dates only · 26 of 60 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Glass Meeting Pods for Coach Lane Campus | Wagstaff Bros Limited | 31 Oct 2026 | £129,166 |
| Theia ALD system annual service contract | FORGE NANO, INC | 31 Dec 2026 | US$50,890 |
| Low-pressure Fischer-Tropsch reactor | GENSONIC TECHNOLOGY | 5 Apr 2027 | £39,340 |
| Polymer processing equipment | Collin Lab and Pilot Solutions GmbH, Collin Lab and Pilot Solutions GmbH | 1 Mar 2028 | €53,880 |
| Polymer processing equipment | Engelmann & Buckham Ltd, Englemann & Buckham Limited | 1 Mar 2028 | £208,129 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 82 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Differential Scanning Calorimeter | Awarded / complete | 3 Feb 2026 | — |
| Waste Gas Abatement system | Awarded / complete | 3 Feb 2026 | — |
| Scratch Testing Module | Awarded / complete | 28 Jan 2026 | — |
| Mira 3 SEM X-ray detection system upgrade | Awarded / complete | 28 Jan 2026 | — |
| Multi-mode Plate Reader | Awarded / complete | 28 Jan 2026 | — |
| Protein Purification System | Awarded / complete | 27 Jan 2026 | — |
| Provision of Internal Audit ServicesAuditing services | Planning | 8 Jan 2026 | £500,000 |
| T25/0018 – Smart Card & Identity ManagementIT services: consulting | Planning | 7 Nov 2025 | £1,000,000 |
| T25/0011 NESST: Exterior Architectural Lighting SolutionArtificial and natural lighting engineering services for buildings | Planning | 25 Sept 2025 | £0 |
| Polymer processing equipmentMachinery for working plastics | Open | 21 Aug 2025 | £200,000 |
| Ellison Building Laboratory RefurbishmentRefrigerating and freezing equipment | Awarded / complete | 13 Aug 2025 | — |
| External Audit ServicesAuditing services | Planned | 7 Aug 2025 | — |
| Structural Engineering Consultancy FrameworkStructural engineering consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 25 Jul 2025 | £500,000 |
| T24/0084 - Environmental SEMScanning electron microscopes | Awarded / complete | 25 Jul 2025 | — |
| T24/0035 Clerk of Works FrameworkArchitectural | Awarded / complete | 18 Jul 2025 | £800,000 |
| Sequencing System ConsumablesBiochemical analysers | Awarded / complete | 9 Jun 2025 | — |
| T24/0069 - Combined provision of Non-Medical Helpers and Support worker servicesAdult-education services at university level | Open | 4 Apr 2025 | £600,000 |
| T24/0065 - Coach ServicesHire of buses and coaches with driver | Open | 1 Apr 2025 | £1,150,000 |
| T24/0058 Sexual Harassment and Misconduct trainingTraining services | Open | 24 Mar 2025 | £125,000 |
| T24/0073 - Pick and Place Robot for PCB ComponentsLaboratory | Planned | 20 Mar 2025 | — |
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- 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. 26 of 60 published contracts state an end date; those feed “Contracts ending”.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.