University of Southampton: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Charity·South East England·Southampton
Companies HouseRC000668 ↗Websitesouthampton.ac.uk ↗
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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 7 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.
52 awarded tenders, 64 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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 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 systems4 procedures · 25%50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 25%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 procedures · 19%31 Electrical machinery2 procedures · 13%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 13%38 Laboratory, optical and precision2 procedures · 13%71 Architectural, construction, engineering2 procedures · 13%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting2 procedures · 13%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 · 16 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 94% (15 notices)
- Framework 6% (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.
- Open 81% (13 notices)
- Limited / restricted 13% (2 notices)
- Selective 6% (1 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 7 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 16 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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| Acol Cleaning and Hygiene Ltd | 2 | 3.8% | 0 | 2 | 23 Jul 2024 |
| Keysight Technologies UK Limited | 2 | 3.8% | 0 | 2 | 4 Aug 2023 |
| JEOL (UK) Ltd | 2 | 3.8% | 0 | 2 | 17 Jan 2023 |
| Beta Safety Systems Limited | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 1 | 7 Jan 2025 |
| PureH2O Limited | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 1 | 30 Oct 2024 |
| Matt Sills Limited | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 1 | 2 Apr 2025 |
| Chris Russell Photography Limited | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 1 | 2 Apr 2025 |
| Jon Banfield | 1 | 1.9% | 1 | 1 | 2 Apr 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 12% of 52 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 64 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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| Cleaning Consignment Stock Management Services | Bunzl UK Ltd trading as Greenham | — | — | £2,500,000 † |
| Provision of a 'Student SuperApp' including design, implementation and support services | LearningMate Solutions UK Ltd | — | — | £1,300,000 † |
| Hosted Events and Conferencing Services (NIHR) | Clarity Travel Limited | — | — | £800,000 † |
| Infrared Femtosecond Laser System | Active Fiber Systems GmbH | — | — | £759,330 † |
| Ultrapure Water System | PureH2O Limited | — | — | £625,000 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 79 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Firefighting Equipment and ServicesFirefighting equipment | Awarded / complete | 22 May 2026 | — |
| Student Accommodation Room Management SystemSoftware package and information systems | Open | 19 Jan 2026 | £540,000 |
| Provision of a CRM Solution for Recruitment, Marketing and AdmissionsIT services: consulting | Open | 14 Jan 2026 | £2,500,000 |
| Cleaning Consignment Stock Management ServicesBrooms and brushes and other articles of various types | Awarded / complete | 3 Oct 2025 | — |
| Cell Sorter for Biological SciencesAnalysis apparatus | Awarded / complete | 4 Apr 2025 | £745,000 |
| Photography Services FrameworkPhotographic services | Awarded / complete | 2 Apr 2025 | — |
| Hosted Events and Conferencing Services (NIHR)Hotel meeting and conference services | Awarded / complete | 31 Mar 2025 | £1,000,000 |
| Procurement of a Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) Student Housing Partner for the Student Residences ProjectAccommodation services | Open | 27 Jan 2025 | — |
| Leasing of a Laser Powder Bed Fusion 3D Metal PrinterElectrical equipment and apparatus | Awarded / complete | 22 Jan 2025 | £500,000 |
| Business Travel Management Services 2025Travel agency and similar services | Open | 13 Jan 2025 | £42,000,000 |
| Fall Protection Inspections, Equipment Servicing, Maintenance and TrainingMiscellaneous repair and maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 7 Jan 2025 | £250,000 |
| Provision of a 'Student SuperApp' including design, implementation and support servicesEducational software package | Awarded / complete | 17 Dec 2024 | — |
| Ultrapure Water SystemPrimary water systems | Awarded / complete | 30 Oct 2024 | — |
| Infrared Femtosecond Laser SystemLasers | Awarded / complete | 17 Oct 2024 | — |
| Non-Medical Help Student SupportAdult and other education services | Awarded / complete | 16 Oct 2024 | — |
| Provision of an Identity Governance Tool including implementation and Support ServicesSoftware package and information systems | Open | 2 Oct 2024 | £4,500,000 |
| 3D Metal Printer LeaseElectrical equipment and apparatus | Unsuccessful | 21 Aug 2024 | — |
| Occupational Health Services and Supplementary ServicesCompany health services | Awarded / complete | 20 Aug 2024 | — |
| Telephone & Data Transmission Services ("Moves, Adds and Changes")Installation of cable infrastructure | Awarded / complete | 5 Aug 2024 | — |
| Wafer Dicing Saw and Post Wafer CleaningLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 1 Aug 2024 | — |
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 (£375m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 15 award records on 10 procedures (15 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 9 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 67 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 (15 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-RC000668