Office for Students: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
GOV.UK register: Executive non-departmental public body·Central government·South West England·Bristol
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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 5 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.
43 awarded tenders, 58 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.
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting13 procedures · 48%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 7%80 Education and training services2 procedures · 7%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental1 procedure · 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 · 27 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.
Contract93%(25 notices)
25 of 27 notices are Contract (93%).Framework7%(2 notices)
2 of 27 notices are Framework (7%).
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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.
Open56%(15 notices)
15 of 27 notices are Open (56%).Direct award30%(8 notices)
8 of 27 notices are Direct award (30%).Route not published11%(3 notices)
3 of 27 notices are Route not published (11%).Limited / restricted4%(1 notice)
1 of 27 notices is Limited / restricted (4%).
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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 5 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 5 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 27 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 4 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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| KPMG | 3 | 7% | 2 | 3 | 20 Jul 2026 |
| Ecorys UK Limited | 3 | 7% | 2 | 3 | 24 Feb 2026 |
| Public First Limited | 2 | 4.7% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Advance HE | 2 | 4.7% | 2 | 2 | — |
| Shift Insight Ltd | 2 | 4.7% | 1 | 3 | — |
| Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes | 2 | 4.7% | 1 | 2 | — |
| IPSOS (MARKET RESEARCH) LTD | 2 | 4.7% | 0 | 2 | — |
| IFF Research Ltd | 1 | 2.3% | 1 | 3 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 19% of 43 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 58 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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| Provision of support services for TRAC and understanding academic and financial sustainability of the UK higher education sector | KPMG | 20 Jul 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £2,083,333 ≈ £1.0m/yr |
| AI Project Delivery & Development | UNIFEYE LTD | 11 Feb 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 2 yrs | £657,000 ≈ £657k/yr |
| Office for Students: Provision of Support Services for TRAC | KPMG | 11 Aug 2025 | 1 yrs | £530,000 ≈ £530k/yr |
| Contract for services to evaluate the Office for Students regulation of quality | Ecorys UK Limited | 21 Aug 2025 | 6 yrs · up to 8 yrs | £500,000 ≈ £83k/yr |
| Contract for Impact Evaluation of the OfS APP approach | Ecorys UK Limited | 24 Feb 2026 | 1.5 yrs · up to 4.8 yrs | £334,588 ≈ £223k/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.
42 of 50 contracts carry an end date, 17 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Office for Students - Bristol Office Cleaning | Albany Cleaning Solutions | 23 Nov 2026 estimated | £304,000 |
| Sector AI Report | Advance HE | 31 Dec 2026 | £1 |
| Office for Students: Executive Search Services | GatenbySanderson Limited | 7 Feb 2027 estimated | £450,000 |
| Managed Cyber Security Service for the Office for Students | ITHQ Ltd | 26 Feb 2027 estimated | £354,712 |
| Office for Students: Recruitment Advertising Services | Penna plc | 27 Feb 2027 estimated | £400,000 |
| Office for Students - Hard Facilities Management Services | PARETO FACILITIES MANAGEMENT LIMITED | 28 Feb 2027 | £525,000 |
| AI Project Delivery & Development | UNIFEYE LTD | 15 Mar 2027 | £657,000 |
| Social Listening Tool | Fenix Media Limited t/a Pulsar | 17 Aug 2027 | £27,000 |
| Contract for Impact Evaluation of the OfS APP approach | Ecorys UK Limited | 30 Sept 2027 | £334,588 |
Soonest 9 of 13 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 49 of 49 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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| Consultation analysisMarket and economic research; polling and statistics | Awarded / complete | 28 Oct 2022 | £450,000 |
| Office for Students - Contract for Learning in relation to Regulatory Theory and its applicationSpecialist training services | Awarded / complete | 1 Sept 2022 | £150,000 |
| Office for Students - Contract for Student mental health 'what works' projectEvaluation consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 13 Jun 2022 | £300,000 |
| Contract for an employer broker service for the Office for Students Postgraduate Conversion Course ProgrammeBusiness services: law | Awarded / complete | 19 May 2022 | £108,333 |
| Managed Cyber Security Service for the Office for StudentsIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 25 Mar 2022 | £320,000 |
| Office for Students - Hard Facilities Management ServicesBuilding and facilities management services | Awarded / complete | 9 Mar 2022 | £1,000,000 |
| Hosting and Maintenance of Office for Students WebsiteIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 12 Aug 2021 | £296,000 |
| Workday Support ServicesSoftware programming and consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 8 Jul 2021 | £250,000 |
| Evaluation of the joint RE and OfS funding competition to improve access and participation for Black, Asian and minority ethnic students in postgraduate research studyEvaluation consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 28 May 2021 | — |
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. 42 of 50 published contracts have an end date; 17 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.