UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD(THE): Contract Register & Procurement Profile

Companies House: Royal Charter CompanyDfE school register: Higher education institutionsEducationNorth West EnglandSALFORD

Companies HouseRC000666 ↗

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 months0-100% vs prior 12 months (2)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Top-3 supplier share25%of 20 awarded procedures · 34 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.

20 awarded tenders, 34 different suppliers.

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

All awards we hold.

Published award value, 24m£3.1mnet · on 2 of 2 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 100%
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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 · 2 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% (2 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 100% (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 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.

Last 24 months, all categories.

12indicative · n=20% of lots drew a single bid
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 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

35.2% below estimateindicative · n=1

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
POMO Limited t/a POMO Robotics210%0226 Sept 2022
TimeEdit AB210%0215 Aug 2024
Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust15%1118 Feb 2025
Vita Health Wellness Ltd15%1117 Dec 2024
Hybrid News Limitedframework/DPS on 115%0220 Jul 2023
Creative Concern Ltdframework/DPS on 115%0220 Jul 2023
Daughter Studioframework/DPS on 115%0220 Jul 2023
True North Communications Limitedframework/DPS on 115%0120 Jul 2023

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 25% of 20 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 34 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.

£3.1mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 2 of 2 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 100%.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Student Occupational Health Service 2024Wrightington, Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust——£1,902,600 †
Counselling Support ServiceVita Health Wellness Ltd——£1,166,580 †

Recent procedures

Latest 22 of 22 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Card Acquiring ServicesFinancial and insurance servicesOpen27 Jul 2021—
Building Management Systems MaintenanceBuilding and facilities management servicesCancelled27 Jul 2021—

Search all 22 procedures for this authority →

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 (£2.5m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 2 award records on 2 procedures (2 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 2 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 39 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 (4 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

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

GB-COH-RC0666GB-FTS-18569GB-FTS-36525GB-FTS-4675

Canonical page id: GB-COH-RC000666