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title: "External Venue Hire for Exams 2024-25"
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# External Venue Hire for Exams 2024-25

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/external-venue-hire-for-exams-2024-25-ocds-h6vhtk-055e32). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Cardiff University: "External Venue Hire for Exams 2024-25". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Cardiff University](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/cardiff-university-coh-rc000089)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Event services, Non-residential property renting or leasing services
- **Delivery Location:** UKL22
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £401,190 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-055e32`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/external-venue-hire-for-exams-2024-25-ocds-h6vhtk-055e32#tl-md)

## Description
Cardiff University require the hire of external venues to hold exams for our students, which involves specific styles of rooms and spaces that can hold a large capacity. The Exam and Timetabling team look at booking rooms internally at Cardiff University as well as external venues. Local external venues are approached year on year to identify availability and capacity requirements for the following exam periods:
-	Autumn – 13th – 24th January 2025 (includes Saturdays)
-	Spring – 12th May – 13th June 2025(includes Saturdays)
-	Resits – 11th August – 22nd August 2025 (includes Saturdays)

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 79952000
- **Delivery regions:** UKL

- **Description:** External short term venue hire for examinations

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 039499-2025-CU.1747.GD-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **live nation**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-124675`
  - Value: £401,190 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 039499-2025-CU.1747.GD-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £401,190
  - Signed Date: 13/07/2025

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F039499-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-07-14T09:32:08.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T13:51:58.478Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-055e32