University of Reading: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·South East England·Reading
Companies HouseRC000665 ↗
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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 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.
13 awarded tenders, 18 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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, consulting1 procedures · 100%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 · 1 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.
- Framework 100% (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.
- Selective 100% (1 notices)
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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| Zurn UK | 1 | 7.7% | 0 | 2 | 23 Mar 2023 |
| Markes International Ltd | 1 | 7.7% | 0 | 2 | 28 Sept 2022 |
| Lloyds Bank Plc | 1 | 7.7% | 0 | 1 | 20 Jul 2022 |
| Oxford Direct Services Trading Limited | 1 | 7.7% | 0 | 1 | 18 May 2022 |
| Amelio Utilities (Gloucester) Ltd | 1 | 7.7% | 0 | 1 | 18 May 2022 |
| Sideshow Ltd | 1 | 7.7% | 0 | 1 | 8 Nov 2022 |
| Network Installation Solutions Ltd | 1 | 7.7% | 0 | 1 | 18 May 2022 |
| RJ Lifts Group Ltd | 1 | 7.7% | 0 | 1 | 19 Jan 2023 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 23% of 13 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 18 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
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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| Digital Dining SystemIndustry specific software package | Cancelled | 18 Jul 2022 | — |
| TVSP - Cost ConsultantCalculation of costs | Awarded / complete | 27 May 2022 | — |
| Road and Footpath MaintenanceConstruction | Awarded / complete | 18 May 2022 | — |
| Data Cabling FrameworkData and voice media | Awarded / complete | 18 May 2022 | — |
| TVSP - EcologistEnvironmental engineering consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 17 May 2022 | — |
| Manor PavilionConstruction work for buildings relating to leisure | Cancelled | 29 Apr 2022 | — |
| Road + Footpath MaintenanceRoad-maintenance works | Cancelled | 26 Jan 2022 | — |
| TVSP Drainage + Transport EngineerSurface water pollution drainage services | Open | 16 Dec 2021 | £150,000 |
| Fire and Emergency Lighting - maintenance and upgrades.Repair and maintenance services | Cancelled | 14 Sept 2021 | — |
| Sustainable Waste Management Services 2021Clinical-waste collection services | Open | 4 Aug 2021 | £1,750,000 |
| Theatre Lighting SupplyCeiling light fittings | Open | 23 Jun 2021 | £130,000 |
| Fire and Emergency Lighting - maintenance and upgradesRepair and maintenance services | Cancelled | 25 May 2021 | — |
| Learning Capture SystemE-learning services | Open | 8 Apr 2021 | — |
| Supply of Archive Solander boxesFile storage box | Open | 4 Mar 2021 | £160,000 |
| Drainage maintenance and repairRepair and maintenance services | Open | 9 Feb 2021 | £400,000 |
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 (£5.9m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 0 award records on 0 procedures (0 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 0 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- 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: 0 of 15 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 (16 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-COH-RC000665