Department for Education: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
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Official UK PPONPDZG-3487-DPVD
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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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 47 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.
409 awarded tenders, 747 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and Inclusion Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Framework | 29 Oct 2026 | 37h | £624,800,000 |
| Microsoft Business Central Delivery and Support Partner | 17 Nov 2026 | 20d | £13,455,016 |
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
80 Education and training services74 procedures · 23% · 1 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet33 procedures · 10% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting28 procedures · 9%71 Architectural, construction, engineering18 procedures · 6%85 Health and social work services18 procedures · 6%48 Software package and information systems9 procedures · 3% · 1 open45 Construction work9 procedures · 3%73 Research and development services9 procedures · 3%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 · 324 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.
Contract96%(310 notices)
310 of 324 notices are Contract (96%).Framework4%(14 notices)
14 of 324 notices are Framework (4%).
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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.
Limited / restricted29%(93 notices)
93 of 324 notices are Limited / restricted (29%).Route not published27%(86 notices)
86 of 324 notices are Route not published (27%).Open20%(64 notices)
64 of 324 notices are Open (20%).Direct award17%(55 notices)
55 of 324 notices are Direct award (17%).Selective8%(26 notices)
26 of 324 notices are Selective (8%).
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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 47 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 the bid deadline to the award date, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 36 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 324 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 30 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
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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| Mutual Ventures | 9 | 2.2% | 4 | 10 | 13 Jul 2026 |
| Mott MacDonald | 9 | 2.2% | 3 | 10 | 1 Oct 2026 |
| National Children's Bureau | 6 | 1.5% | 1 | 6 | — |
| Education Development Trust | 6 | 1.5% | 0 | 6 | — |
| Cognizant Worldwide Ltd | 6 | 1.5% | 0 | 6 | — |
| Teach First | 5 | 1.2% | 2 | 5 | 19 May 2026 |
| LOGISTICS SKILLS & CONSULTANCY LTD | 5 | 1.2% | 0 | 8 | — |
| RM Education Ltd | 5 | 1.2% | 0 | 5 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 409 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 747 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 published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
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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| Explore education statistics platform support | See Contracts Finder Notice for full supplier list | — | 4 yrs | £813,000,000 † ≈ £203m/yr |
| Media Buying Call Off 2026 | Wavemaker Ltd | 22 Apr 2026 | 4 yrs | £300,000,000 ≈ £75m/yr |
| High Potential Initial Teacher Training and Leadership Development Programme 2022/23 con_8477 | Teach First | — | 7.5 yrs | £137,264,507 † ≈ £18m/yr |
| Copyright Licences for Schools - Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) | THE COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY LTD | 1 Apr 2026 | 6 yrs | £109,481,016 ≈ £18m/yr |
| Future High Potential Initial Teacher Training Programme 2027 - 2029 cohorts | Teach First | 19 May 2026 | 5.4 yrs · up to 7.4 yrs | £89,000,000 ≈ £16m/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
639 of 1,086 contracts carry an end date, 56 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Attendance Mentors Expansion | Empowering Educational International Limited (Etio) | 30 Oct 2026 | £14,997,424 |
| LISTENING TO CHILDREN IN KINSHIP CARE: A QUALITATIVE EXPLORATION OF LIVED EXPERIENCE (con_31011) | Coram | 31 Oct 2026 | £49,805 |
| Freelance Policy Advisor (con_29030) | Isobel Miller | 4 Nov 2026 | £24,500 |
| con_29270 - Benchmarking tool for Schools Pilot | TCM Technology Ltd | 16 Nov 2026 | £82,250 |
| Health workforce specification for children in complex situations at risk of deprivation of liberty | The Anna Freud Centre | 27 Nov 2026 | £149,510 |
| FENCCSS (Further Education Network & Cyber Security Services) | Jisc | 1 Dec 2026 | £42,000,000 |
| Freelance Policy Advisor - Frances MacLellan (con_29552) | FRANCES MACLELLAN | 1 Dec 2026 | £24,500 |
| Inquiry Response Support 2026 | DWF Law LLP | 31 Dec 2026 | £79,650 |
| Freelance policy advisor (con_29620) | Steve Manton | 5 Jan 2027 | £24,500 |
| Freelance policy advisor (con_29626) | Esther Outram | 5 Jan 2027 | £24,500 |
Soonest 10 of 133 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 674 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developing a Digital and Data Skills PathwayDevelopment consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 9 Oct 2026 | £500,000 |
| Future Data Collection: SurveyingArchitectural and building-surveying services | Planned | 8 Oct 2026 | £45,000,000 |
| Further Education Network Connectivity and Cyber Security Services (FENCCSS) | Awarded / complete | 8 Oct 2026 | — |
| All Saints | Awarded / complete | 7 Oct 2026 | — |
| Pope Paul Catholic Primary School | Awarded / complete | 6 Oct 2026 | — |
| Uffculme School | Awarded / complete | 6 Oct 2026 | — |
| Delivering the Best Start in Life - Implementation PartnerEducation and training services | Awarded / complete | 2 Oct 2026 | £2,743,750 |
| Test Operations Service - Future Service Management ProgrammeEducation and training services | Planning | 2 Oct 2026 | — |
| UK4 - Care Leaver Covenant & Corporate Parenting Market Engagement Event NoticeWelfare services for children and young people | Planning | 2 Oct 2026 | £2,751,666 |
| UK-US Fulbright Commission’s Summer Reception (con_31753) | Awarded / complete | 30 Sept 2026 | — |
| Learning for Infrastructure Engineering Profession (con_31780) | Awarded / complete | 30 Sept 2026 | — |
| Management Information Systems for Schools in EnglandSoftware package and information systems | Planning | 29 Sept 2026 | £800,000,000 |
| National Centre for Computing Education (NCCE)Education and training services | Planning | 29 Sept 2026 | £12,000,000 |
| User research participant | Awarded / complete | 29 Sept 2026 | — |
| Kinship Support Service for Kinship Carers in EnglandEducation and training services | Planning | 28 Sept 2026 | £2,250,000 |
| Kinship Delivery PartnerSpecialist training services | Planned | 28 Sept 2026 | £2,160,000 |
| Independent Review Mechanism (IRM)_ Market Engagement EventHealth and social work services | Planning | 25 Sept 2026 | £800,000 |
| National Advocacy Information, Advice and Safety Net ServiceAdministrative social services | Planning | 24 Sept 2026 | £540,000 |
| Accredited learning programmes across the policy professionHigher education services | Awarded / complete | 23 Sept 2026 | £16,550,000 |
| Regenerative Schools Pilot - Innovation LeadArchitectural | Awarded / complete | 22 Sept 2026 | £3,929,166 |
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 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. 639 of 1,086 published contracts have an end date; 56 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.
- 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.