University of the West of England: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·South West England·Bristol
Official UK PPONPPXW-8925-GTVT
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2,167 awarded tenders, 1,112 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
80 Education and training services97 procedures · 22%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting57 procedures · 13%48 Software package and information systems40 procedures · 9%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet24 procedures · 6%30 Office and computing machinery13 procedures · 3%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances13 procedures · 3%45 Construction work8 procedures · 2%22 Printed matter and related products7 procedures · 2%How they buyi
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Last 24 months · 436 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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Contract100%(436 notices)
436 of 436 notices are Contract (100%).
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Direct award65%(282 notices)
282 of 436 notices are Direct award (65%).Route not published34%(148 notices)
148 of 436 notices are Route not published (34%).Open1%(4 notices)
4 of 436 notices are Open (1%).Limited / restricted0%(2 notices)
2 of 436 notices are Limited / restricted (0%).
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Based on 3 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 436 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Based on 1 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| Desk Top Publishing Micro Systems LTD | 35 | 1.6% | 5 | 35 | 15 May 2025 |
| Berkeley Scott | 25 | 1.2% | 11 | 25 | 13 Jul 2025 |
| Academia Ltd | 24 | 1.1% | 8 | 24 | 18 Sept 2025 |
| Lancer Scott Facilities Management Ltd | 22 | 1% | 0 | 22 | 2 Nov 2023 |
| Defensor Maintenance Limited | 20 | 0.9% | 5 | 20 | 4 Feb 2025 |
| Adecco UK Limited (t/a The Adecco Group) | 18 | 0.8% | 7 | 18 | 9 Sept 2025 |
| KSCM Limited | 18 | 0.8% | 0 | 18 | 20 Aug 2024 |
| Ebsco Information Services | 17 | 0.8% | 8 | 17 | 7 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 4% of 2,167 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 1,112 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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| Actian Software License Subscription Renewal | Actian Europe Limited | 20 Jul 2026 | 2.8 yrs | £4,300,000 ≈ £1.5m/yr |
| Lot 1 - Frenchay Campus Centre For Sport | Atlas FM | 27 May 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £650,000 ≈ £217k/yr |
| Lot 4 - City Campus | Sansum Solutions Group Limited | 27 May 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £500,000 ≈ £167k/yr |
| Project Management Services in relation to UWE partnership | Delter Business Institute Limited | — | 2 mo | £499,719 † |
| Partner Payments for Grassland Resilience For Net Zero | SRUC | — | 2.2 yrs | £475,877 † ≈ £220k/yr |
Contracts endingi
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2,156 of 2,172 contracts carry an end date, 9 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Subscription Renewal to Lexis Library | LexisNexis | 15 Nov 2026 | £81,224 |
| Subscription Renewal to Emis | Lightcast Economic Modeling | 18 Nov 2026 | £34,455 |
| Business Analyst | LA International Computer Consultants Ltd | 27 Nov 2026 | £30,922 |
| Interim Head of Business Resilience | Michael Page International Recruitment Limited | 29 Nov 2026 | £67,121 |
| OUP Business Trove - ETXT renewal | Oxford University Press (Books) | 30 Nov 2026 | £27,500 |
| SIS Test Lead | SThree Partnership LLP | 16 Dec 2026 | £57,750 |
| NetBackup Subscription | INSIGHT DIRECT UK LTD | 20 Dec 2026 | £95,236 |
| PAR-SUP-SRX320JSB | KUBUS GROUP LIMITED | 24 Dec 2026 | £27,913 |
| 2026 OIA core subscription | THE OFFICE OF THE INDEPENDENT ADJUDICATOR FOR HIGHER EDUCATION | 31 Dec 2026 | £75,850 |
| Springer Nature Read & Publish | Jisc Services Limited - EURO Subscriptions (JC) | 31 Dec 2026 | £57,469 |
Soonest 10 of 110 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 469 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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| Cleaning Agency Staff | Awarded / complete | 22 Sept 2026 | — |
| DTP Consumable Call Off Order | Awarded / complete | 22 Sept 2026 | — |
| OUP - Bulk Order (26-27) | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| LexisNexis 26-27 Books | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Portable Force Plate | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Subscription for Talis Aspire Reading List software | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Call off order for purchasing wide format paper | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Palo Alto VM Credits | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| EPrint Renewal | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Jisc Databases Subscription & IT Services | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| BT Circuit SHUK613360 | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Subscription Renewal to Acland Anatomy & Embase | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Legal services for patents | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Legal fees in relation to litigation | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Stand for UCAS | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Ansys Academic Multiphysics Campus Solution | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Hazardous Laboratory Waste Collection | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Nexis Solutions and Partner Charges | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| Metaverse project payment | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
| JSTOR Archive Journals | Awarded / complete | 21 Sept 2026 | — |
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Contracts Finder adds 1,741 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. 2,156 of 2,172 published contracts have an end date; 9 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.