Waterstones Booksellers Limited: UK Public Sector Contracts Won & Awards
Large organisation·Companies House: Private Limited Company·London·Nationwide (UK)·Main market: Printed books
Companies House00610095 ↗Websiteblackwells.co.uk ↗
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How many tenders this supplier has won.
Tenders with at least one award to it. Award records are shown too, because one framework can carry many call-offs.
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How many different public bodies have awarded to this supplier.
Buyers named on its awards, with duplicate names merged.
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How much this supplier has won, by published values.
Sum of award values where it was the only winner, VAT excluded, framework ceilings left out.
Not turnover. Not every award publishes a value.
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Awards to this supplier in the last 12 months.
Award records dated in the last 12 months, against the two years before.
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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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In which regions this supplier wins work.
The region of each buyer it won from: the buyer’s office, placed by the official ONS postcode lookup. Each procedure counts once.
Where the buyer is based, not necessarily where the work was done; the tender page shows the published place of delivery.
Where they wini
In which categories this supplier wins.
Its awards by the category (CPV) of the lot won. An award to the whole procedure, with no lot named, counts once under the procedure’s main category.
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In which categories this supplier wins.
Its awards by the category (CPV) of the lot won. An award to the whole procedure, with no lot named, counts once under the procedure’s main category.
13 awards (11 for a named lot, 85%, 2 for a whole procedure with no lot named; pending awards included) · top CPV classes, shares of all 13
2211 Printed books8 awards · 62% · 6 lots + 2 whole-procedure2212 Publications2 awards · 15% · lots7998 Subscription services2 awards · 15% · lots9251 Library and archive services1 awards · 8% · lotsi
How much this supplier has won, by published values.
Sum of award values where it was the only winner, VAT excluded, framework ceilings left out.
Not turnover. Not every award publishes a value.
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What one of this supplier’s wins 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. | Authority | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Legal Publications Print & eBook 25-26 Call Offs | Ministry of Justice | — | — | £1,546,109 † |
| Legal Publications Print & eBook 24-25 Call Offs | Ministry of Justice | — | — | £1,437,104 † |
| Procurement of Book Vouchers | Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust | — | 1 mo | £15,600 |
Where their buyers arei
In which regions this supplier wins work.
The region of each buyer it won from: the buyer’s office, placed by the official ONS postcode lookup. Each procedure counts once.
Where the buyer is based, not necessarily where the work was done; the tender page shows the published place of delivery.
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In which regions this supplier wins work.
The region of each buyer it won from: the buyer’s office, placed by the official ONS postcode lookup. Each procedure counts once.
Where the buyer is based, not necessarily where the work was done; the tender page shows the published place of delivery.
ITL1 region of the buyer office · known for 8 of 8 awarded procedures · each procedure counts once
Who they sell toi
Which public bodies award work to this supplier.
Authorities named on its published awards, ranked by distinct procedures, duplicate names merged.
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Which public bodies award work to this supplier.
Authorities named on its published awards, ranked by distinct procedures, duplicate names merged.
Authorities named on this supplier’s published awards · ranked by distinct procedures · a framework or DPS adds one award record per appointed supplier
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What kinds of public bodies award work to this supplier.
Its award records by the authority’s published type, otherwise by its name. One framework can add many records.
Education46%(6 awards)
6 of 13 awards are Education (46%).Type not classified31%(4 awards)
4 of 13 awards are Type not classified (31%).Central government23%(3 awards)
3 of 13 awards are Central government (23%).
| Authority | Procedures | Share | Award records | Last activity |
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| the Education Authority | 2 | 25% | 3 | 28 Apr 2021 |
| Ministry of Justice | 1 | 12.5% | 2 | 18 Mar 2025 |
| Education Authority NI | 1 | 12.5% | 2 | 28 Apr 2021 |
| ESPO | 1 | 12.5% | 2 | 7 Nov 2024 |
| Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 10 Jun 2026 |
| University of Reading | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 2 Jun 2025 |
| National Institute for Health and Care Excellence | 1 | 12.5% | 1 | 15 Apr 2025 |
Share = of the 8 procedures with an award naming this supplier. Last activity = award date, or notice publication when no award date was published.
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 · 11 of 12 awards carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Ends | Published value |
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| Lot 2.1 - Fiction and Curriculum Books | 31 Oct 2026 | £1,680,000 |
| Lot 2.2 - Reference Materials, Handbooks and Manuals | 31 Oct 2026 | £720,000 |
Recent awards
Latest 12 of 12 award records naming this supplier
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 supplier. Built from award and contract notices that name this supplier; different spellings and registration numbers of the same company are merged into this profile.
- Values are published values. The table mirrors what the notice published: framework ceilings and joint awards are labelled and never counted as this supplier's money, and † marks a value taken from the contract notice when the award published none. Only awards made to this supplier alone count towards its value, excluding VAT. It is not turnover.
- Regions on this page are where the work is delivered, not the supplier’s registered address.
- Contract end dates. Published on 11 of 12 awards; 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.