Durham University: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·North East England·The Palatine Centre, Stockton Road
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Tenders you can still bid for.
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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 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.
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
38 Laboratory, optical and precision2 procedures · 100%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 · 2 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.
Contract100%(2 notices)
2 of 2 notices are Contract (100%).
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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 / restricted50%(1 notice)
1 of 2 notices is Limited / restricted (50%).Open50%(1 notice)
1 of 2 notices is Open (50%).
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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| Nanometrics Inc | 1 | 11.1% | 1 | 1 | — |
| NanoTemper Technologies GmbH | 1 | 11.1% | 0 | 1 | — |
| Analytik Ltd | 1 | 11.1% | 0 | 1 | — |
| Equans Services Limited | 1 | 11.1% | 0 | 1 | — |
| BRUKER UK LIMITED | 1 | 11.1% | 0 | 1 | — |
| Stanley Travel (North East) Ltd | 1 | 11.1% | 0 | 1 | — |
| Transport2 Ltd T/A Kura | 1 | 11.1% | 0 | 1 | — |
| Advanced Renewable Power | 1 | 11.1% | 0 | 1 | — |
9 awarded procedures across 11 suppliers: too few to describe concentration.
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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.
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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| 6-off Broadband Ocean-Bottom Seismographs | Nanometrics Inc | — | — | £511,360 † |
Recent procedures
Latest 16 of 16 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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| 6-off Broadband Ocean-Bottom SeismographsLaboratory | Awarded / complete | 23 Jan 2025 | — |
| Dilution FridgeLaboratory | Open | 17 Jan 2025 | £333,333 |
| Online Programme Management (OPM) Partnership for Online Course DevelopmentAdult-education services at university level | Open | 2 May 2024 | £50,000 |
| Lattice Light Sheet MicroscopeFluorescent microscopes | Awarded / complete | 16 Jan 2024 | — |
| Solar PV PanelsSolar panels | Awarded / complete | 13 Apr 2023 | £416,667 |
| Dianthus Nano SystemDrug detection apparatus | Awarded / complete | 4 Jan 2023 | — |
| Accurate Mass Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (Orbitrap)Gas chromatographs | Awarded / complete | 8 Dec 2022 | — |
| Mass SpectrometerMass spectrometer | Awarded / complete | 27 Oct 2022 | — |
| Hild Bede Development & 19th CollegeArchitectural design services | Planned | 22 Jul 2022 | — |
| Hyperspectral Imaging SystemsInstruments for checking physical characteristics | Awarded / complete | 14 Feb 2022 | £300,000 |
| Coach and Mini Bus HireHire of buses and coaches with driver | Awarded / complete | 25 Nov 2021 | — |
| Gas Appliance and Mechanical Services Maintenance, Service and RepairGas appliance maintenance services | Awarded / complete | 3 Sept 2021 | — |
| Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) magnetometerDetection and analysis apparatus | Open | 17 Aug 2021 | £650,000 |
| Co-Sourced Internal AuditInternal audit services | Open | 15 Apr 2021 | £210,000 |
| Philanthropic Campaign ConsultancyAdvertising and marketing services | Open | 2 Mar 2021 | £227,000 |
| 1.2 kW XAFS SpectrometerSpectrometers | Open | 19 Feb 2021 | £300,000 |
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. 3 of 9 published contracts have an end date; 1 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.