University of South Wales: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Education·Wales (Cymru)·Pontypridd·Ran 5 procurements for other authorities
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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 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 6 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.
88 awarded tenders, 75 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.
Open notices
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi Lot - Supply and Installation of Materials Testing Machines (Tensile and Flexural) | 13 Nov 2026 | 22d | £400,000 |
| Construction of the Chiropractic Car Park, Treforest Campus | 27 Nov 2026 | 37d | £500,000 |
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
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet17 procedures · 17%45 Construction work12 procedures · 12% · 1 open38 Laboratory, optical and precision11 procedures · 11% · 1 open39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances5 procedures · 5%42 Industrial machinery5 procedures · 5%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting5 procedures · 5%32 Radio, television, communication4 procedures · 4%22 Printed matter and related products3 procedures · 3%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 · 98 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.
Contract100%(98 notices)
98 of 98 notices are Contract (100%).
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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.
Open36%(35 notices)
35 of 98 notices are Open (36%).Direct award35%(34 notices)
34 of 98 notices are Direct award (35%).Route not published15%(15 notices)
15 of 98 notices are Route not published (15%).Selective10%(10 notices)
10 of 98 notices are Selective (10%).Limited / restricted4%(4 notices)
4 of 98 notices are Limited / restricted (4%).
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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 6 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 6 decided tenders across all categories, 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 98 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 6 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| Jisc | 8 | 9.1% | 8 | 8 | 24 Mar 2026 |
| SAGE Publications Ltd | 3 | 3.4% | 3 | 3 | — |
| Proquest LLC | 3 | 3.4% | 3 | 3 | — |
| Thomas Reuters (Professional) UK Ltd | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | — |
| BSCL Ltd | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Sure Campus Ltd | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | 4 Aug 2026 |
| Pro AV | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Catapult Sports Limited | 2 | 2.3% | 0 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 16% of 88 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 75 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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| Device and Application Management | Academia Ltd | 18 Jun 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £1,627,200 ≈ £542k/yr |
| Award of The Provision of Lift Inspection, Servicing, Maintenance and Call Out Services | Cardiff Lift Company Ltd | 31 Mar 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £1,436,000 ≈ £479k/yr |
| Student Accommodation | UNITE STUDENTS LIMITED | — | — | £1,042,096 † |
| USW Award of Educational Neurodiversity Assessment Services | People Asset Management Ltd | 1 Aug 2025 | 3 yrs | £475,000 ≈ £158k/yr |
| Provision of Promotional Items | Get Yourself Noticed Ltd | — | — | £400,000 † |
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 · 69 of 91 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| UCAS Media Partnership | UCAS Media Ltd | 9 Nov 2026 | £193,371 |
| Train Station Sponsorship | Route Sales & Media Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £46,710 |
| Epigeum Research Skills Toolkit International Edition | SAGE Publications Ltd | 29 May 2027 | £27,485 |
| Summer Accommodation Cleaning | AMETROS FACILITIES MANAGEMENT LIMITED | 26 Jun 2027 | £170,000 |
| Welcome Pack Fulfilment and Postage Provider | Steffco Ltd trading as Resource | 9 Jul 2027 | £81,202 |
| Provision of Residential Accommodation for Sports Coaching Students | Leonardo Hotel Cardiff, Leonardo Hotel Cardiff | 24 Jul 2027 | £334,913 |
| Award of The Financial Times Limited 2025-2027 | The Financial Times Limited | 27 Jul 2027 | £55,268 |
| Thomson Reuters law collection 2026-2027 | Thomas Reuters (Professional) UK Ltd | 31 Jul 2027 | £47,966 |
| ProQuest Content Package 2026 - 2027 | Proquest LLC | 31 Jul 2027 | £177,875 |
| SUPPLY OF ONEWEB AND STARLINK SATELLITE CONNECTIVITY HARDWARE AND SERVICES | EXCELERATE TECHNOLOGY LTD | 9 Aug 2027 | £29,215 |
Soonest 10 of 11 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 122 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
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. 69 of 91 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.