University of Plymouth: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·South West England·Plymouth, Devon
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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 5 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.
133 awarded tenders, 117 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.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| PDSE Patient Record Management Solution | 20 Oct 2026 | 20d | £890,000 |
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
48 Software package and information systems11 procedures · 10% · 1 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet7 procedures · 6% · 1 open85 Health and social work services5 procedures · 4% · 1 open30 Office and computing machinery5 procedures · 4%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals5 procedures · 4%45 Construction work5 procedures · 4%50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 4%80 Education and training services4 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 · 114 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 100% (114 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.
- Route not published 56% (64 notices)
- Direct award 20% (23 notices)
- Limited / restricted 12% (14 notices)
- Open 11% (13 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 5 lots from this buyer’s competitions, 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 114 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 2 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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| STRATEGIC PEOPLE LTD | 3 | 2.3% | 3 | 3 | 2 Oct 2025 |
| TARC SOLUTIONS LIMITED | 3 | 2.3% | 2 | 3 | 13 Aug 2025 |
| THEATRE ROYAL (PLYMOUTH) LTD | 3 | 2.3% | 2 | 3 | 9 Dec 2025 |
| City Electrical Factors Limited | 2 | 1.5% | 2 | 2 | 11 Sept 2025 |
| SANCTUARY MANAGEMENT SERVICES | 2 | 1.5% | 2 | 2 | 9 Oct 2025 |
| NATIONAL GRID TELECOMS LTD | 2 | 1.5% | 2 | 2 | 24 Sept 2025 |
| First Advantage Europe Limited | 2 | 1.5% | 2 | 2 | 24 Sept 2025 |
| Mercury Construction (sw) Ltd | 2 | 1.5% | 2 | 2 | 10 Jul 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 133 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 117 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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| Extension and Refurbishment of Hepworth House to accommodate for the new Centre of Eyecare Excellence | Obedair | — | — | £4,580,018 † |
| Contract for Rolle Building Exterior Works | Classic Builders (South West) Ltd | 18 Jun 2025 | 1 yrs | £1,618,252 ≈ £1.6m/yr |
| Dental Laboratory Work for PDSE | Swift Dental Laboratory Limited | — | — | £1,300,000 † |
| Roof Replacement at the John Bull Building | MERCURY CONSTRUCTION (SOUTH WEST) LIMITED | — | 1.5 yrs | £654,474 † ≈ £436k/yr |
| Provision of Research Costing and Pricing Solution | Worktribe | 3 Oct 2025 | 5 yrs · up to 7 yrs | £556,493 ≈ £111k/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 · 69 of 141 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Professional Services | Elsevier Ltd | 30 Sept 2026 | £86,402 |
| Professional Services | UNUM LIMITED | 30 Sept 2026 | £131,121 |
| Replacement of the Roof using the Bauder system | MERCURY CONSTRUCTION (SOUTH WEST) LIMITED | 28 Feb 2027 | £654,474 |
| STEMM Services | BMM WESTON LIMITED | 31 Mar 2027 | £35,568 |
| Estates Work | SANCTUARY MANAGEMENT SERVICES | 6 Jul 2027 | £31,020 |
| Orthotics students programme. | LEAMINGTON SPA ORTHODONTIC CENTRE | 31 Jul 2027 | £206,250 |
| IT Services | ZETA COMPLIANCE SERVICES LTD( FORMERLY FINEAPPLY LTD) | 31 Jul 2027 | £48,432 |
| Professional Services | ACCOUNT-ABILITY LTD | 30 Sept 2027 | £66,240 |
| IT Services | Infonetica Ltd | 31 Jan 2028 | £38,198 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 200 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Professional Services | Awarded / complete | 9 Dec 2025 | — |
| Estates Work 2 | Awarded / complete | 9 Dec 2025 | — |
| Estates Work | Awarded / complete | 9 Dec 2025 | — |
| Maintenance & Testing of Water Asset's across UOP EstateDrinking-water distribution | Awarded / complete | 4 Dec 2025 | £480,000 |
| RingGo Parking Management | Awarded / complete | 28 Nov 2025 | — |
| Professional Services | Awarded / complete | 27 Nov 2025 | — |
| Professional Services | Awarded / complete | 27 Nov 2025 | — |
| STEMM Equipment | Awarded / complete | 20 Nov 2025 | — |
| Professional Services | Awarded / complete | 20 Nov 2025 | — |
| Fairtrade Clothing SuppliersClothing | Planning | 7 Nov 2025 | £0 |
| Oral Nutritional Supplements - REFRESH Trial - Nualtra | Awarded / complete | 9 Oct 2025 | — |
| Oral Nutritional Supplements - REFRESH Trial - Abbott | Awarded / complete | 9 Oct 2025 | — |
| Estates Work | Awarded / complete | 9 Oct 2025 | — |
| Supply Acoustic Releases | Awarded / complete | 9 Oct 2025 | — |
| Professional Services | Awarded / complete | 9 Oct 2025 | — |
| Subscriptions | Awarded / complete | 9 Oct 2025 | — |
| Exam TimetablingIT software package | Planning | 8 Oct 2025 | £0 |
| STEMM Activities | Awarded / complete | 2 Oct 2025 | — |
| Professional Services | Awarded / complete | 2 Oct 2025 | — |
| Professional Services | Awarded / complete | 2 Oct 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 (£40m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 80 award records on 79 procedures (80 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 15 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 56 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: 69 of 141 published contracts carry a period end; 9 end within 18 months, 3 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (6 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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