University of Worcester: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·West Midlands·Worcester
Official UK PPONPYJR-8772-LLDPWebsiteworcester.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 13 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.
30 awarded tenders, 34 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.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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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 systems11 procedures · 22%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting9 procedures · 18%45 Construction work8 procedures · 16%50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 8%80 Education and training services4 procedures · 8%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals2 procedures · 4%42 Industrial machinery2 procedures · 4%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental2 procedures · 4%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 · 49 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 100% (49 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 55% (27 notices)
- Direct award 18% (9 notices)
- Route not published 14% (7 notices)
- Selective 12% (6 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 13 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 8 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 49 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 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| IDP Connect Ltd | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 2 | 11 Aug 2026 |
| CHARTERED MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 1 | 1 Apr 2025 |
| STUDENTS ORGANISING FOR SUSTAINABILITY | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 1 | 10 Aug 2026 |
| WARWICK UNIVERSITY SERVICES LIMITED t/a jobs.ac.uk | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 1 | 19 Aug 2026 |
| ACTIVE PUMP SERVICES LTD | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 1 | 13 Mar 2026 |
| Smith's (Gloucester) Limited | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 1 | 22 May 2025 |
| Complete Communication Services Ltd | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 1 | 4 Aug 2026 |
| RH Advertising | 1 | 3.3% | 1 | 1 | 19 Feb 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 10% of 30 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.
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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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| UOW962 - Advertising and Media Buying Services | RH Advertising | 19 Feb 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £2,000,000 ≈ £1.0m/yr |
| Student Placement Requirements | Welland Wheels Limited | — | — | £1,250,000 † |
| UOW944 - Reading List Management System and Digitised Content | Talis Education Ltd | — | — | £412,000 † |
| UOW896 Design Services | W&J Linney Ltd | — | — | £360,000 † |
| Chartered Management Institute Course Membership | CHARTERED MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE | — | 6 yrs | £180,972 † ≈ £30k/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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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.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 25 of 31 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| WhatUni Bundle | IDP Connect Ltd | 21 Jun 2027 | £35,000 |
| Subscription to SOS-UK | STUDENTS ORGANISING FOR SUSTAINABILITY | 31 Jul 2027 | £26,900 |
| CLA Licence for Students | THE COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY LTD | 31 Jul 2027 | £61,572 |
| Recruitment Advertising | WARWICK UNIVERSITY SERVICES LIMITED t/a jobs.ac.uk | 31 Jul 2027 | £30,000 |
| UOW966 High Voltage systems Service, Maintenance & Remedials | Ipsum Power (Private Networks) Ltd | 5 Aug 2027 | £22,712 |
| Lexis Plus Academic Library | Relx (UK) Limited t/a LexisNexis | 16 Aug 2027 | £40,310 |
| UOW967 Job Board | WR Group t/a "Webrecruit" | 31 Oct 2027 | £72,000 |
| BMS Service and Maintenance | Concord Environmental Technologies Ltd | 29 Feb 2028 | £65,000 |
| UOW962 - Advertising and Media Buying Services | RH Advertising, RH Advertising | 16 Mar 2028 | £2,000,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 58 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| UOW999 Sports ClothingClothing | Planning | 22 Sept 2026 | — |
| UOW954 Security StaffingSecurity services | Awarded / complete | 16 Sept 2026 | £3,000,000 |
| UOW1000 - Drainage ServicesDrainage works | Open | 27 Aug 2026 | £25,000 |
| Recruitment Advertising | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2026 | — |
| Lexis Plus Academic Library | Awarded / complete | 14 Aug 2026 | — |
| CLA Licence for Students | Awarded / complete | 14 Aug 2026 | — |
| APA PsycInfo & Psyc Articles | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2026 | — |
| WhatUni Bundle | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2026 | — |
| Subscription to SOS-UK | Awarded / complete | 10 Aug 2026 | — |
| UOW990 - Nutrition Analysis SoftwareIndustry specific software package | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2026 | £14,000 |
| Roofing Works | Awarded / complete | 4 Aug 2026 | — |
| BSL Interpretation Services | Awarded / complete | 4 Aug 2026 | — |
| UOW998 – Snow Clearing & GrittingIce-clearing services | Open | 31 Jul 2026 | £0 |
| UOW991 University of Worcester Outdoor Covered Cricket FacilityConstruction work for buildings relating to leisure | Open | 24 Jul 2026 | £0 |
| UOW994 - Digital Teaching, Assessment & Media PlatformEducational software package | Planning | 13 Jul 2026 | — |
| UOW984 West Africa Representative (based in Nigeria)Higher education services | Awarded / complete | 13 Jul 2026 | £0 |
| Student out of Hours Wellbeing SupportCounselling services | Awarded / complete | 8 Jul 2026 | £0 |
| UOW981 - Applicant Tracking Software (ATS)Recruitment services | Awarded / complete | 3 Jul 2026 | £84,000 |
| UWQ329 - Fuel Cards | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2026 | — |
| UOW996 - CAFM SoftwareFacilities management software package and software package suite | Planning | 29 Jun 2026 | £640,000 |
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 (£23m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 30 award records on 28 procedures (28 to a single canonical supplier, 2 multi-supplier). 19 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 6 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- 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: 25 of 31 published contracts carry a period end; 9 end within 18 months, 0 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (3 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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