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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520 awarded tenders, 351 different suppliers.
What they buyi
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
48 Software package and information systems33 procedures · 413%38 Laboratory, optical and precision13 procedures · 163%71 Architectural, construction, engineering10 procedures · 125%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals8 procedures · 100%30 Office and computing machinery7 procedures · 88%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting6 procedures · 75%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet4 procedures · 50%34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 38%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 8 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract88%(7 notices)
7 of 8 notices are Contract (88%).Framework13%(1 notice)
1 of 8 notices is Framework (13%).
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Open63%(5 notices)
5 of 8 notices are Open (63%).Limited / restricted25%(2 notices)
2 of 8 notices are Limited / restricted (25%).Selective13%(1 notice)
1 of 8 notices is Selective (13%).
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Based on 2 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Fewer than 5 lots: a median, not a typical figure.
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Based on 8 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
Who wins herei
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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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| Academia Ltd | 77 | 14.8% | 17 | 77 | 23 Feb 2026 |
| Dell Corporation Ltd | 15 | 2.9% | 8 | 15 | 8 Jan 2026 |
| BP Rolls (Maxus) Ltd | 8 | 1.5% | 2 | 8 | 11 Jul 2025 |
| EBSCO INTERNATIONAL INC | 6 | 1.2% | 0 | 6 | 22 Jul 2024 |
| Rekan | 5 | 1% | 1 | 5 | 4 Feb 2025 |
| A T Little & Sons Ltd T/A Browns Books | 5 | 1% | 0 | 5 | 22 Sept 2022 |
| XMA Limited | 5 | 1% | 0 | 5 | 2 Mar 2023 |
| AD Southern | 4 | 0.8% | 0 | 4 | 16 Jul 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 520 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 351 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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Largest published awards i | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Cleaning Consignment Stock Management Services | Bunzl UK Ltd trading as Greenham | — | — | £2,500,000 † |
| Cell Sorter for Biological Sciences | Life Technologies Ltd | — | — | £532,017 † |
| Firefighting Equipment and Services | Firemark Limited | — | — | £302,500 † |
Contracts endingi
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557 of 574 contracts carry an end date, 48 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Lightwave Vector Network Analyser | Keysight Technologies UK Limited | 15 Nov 2026 estimated | £732,308 |
| ICT Integrator for Lloyds Register Building | Logicalis UK Limited | 30 Nov 2026 | £101,690 |
| Provision of Hire Vehicles | Arnold Clark Finance Limited. | 30 Nov 2026 | £300,000 |
| Adobe ETLA | Academia Ltd | 3 Dec 2026 | £244,585 |
| Lightwave Vector Network Analyser | Keysight Technologies UK Limited | 3 Dec 2026 | £732,308 |
| Provision of Hexagon Actran Licences | Academia Ltd | 31 Dec 2026 | £50,685 |
| Multi-Channel Potentiostat | SciMed Ltd | 2 Jan 2027 | £29,988 |
| Provision of Alteryx Designer Licences | Academia Ltd | 6 Jan 2027 | £58,800 |
| Provision of an Electronic Practice Assessment Document Tool (EPAD) | MYKNOWLEDGEMAP LIMITED | 20 Jan 2027 | £136,563 |
| Benchtop Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometer | Shimadzu UK Ltd | 22 Jan 2027 | £51,915 |
Soonest 10 of 88 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 79 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| 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 | £240,000 |
| 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 SystemLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 30 Oct 2024 | £925,000 |
| Infrared Femtosecond Laser SystemLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 17 Oct 2024 | £920,000 |
| Non-Medical Help Student SupportAdult and other education services | Awarded / complete | 16 Oct 2024 | £360,000 |
| 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 | £500,000 |
| Occupational Health Services and Supplementary ServicesCompany health services | Awarded / complete | 20 Aug 2024 | £10,000,000 |
| Telephone & Data Transmission Services ("Moves, Adds and Changes")Installation of cable infrastructure | Awarded / complete | 5 Aug 2024 | £2,700,000 |
| Wafer Dicing Saw and Post Wafer CleaningLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 1 Aug 2024 | £205,000 |
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Contracts Finder adds 495 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.
About this data
- 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. 557 of 574 published contracts have an end date; 48 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.