THE UNIVERSITY CATERERS ORGANISATION LIMITED: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: PRI/LTD BY GUAR/NSC (Private, limited by guarantee, no share capital)·North West England·Manchester·Ran 1 procurement for other authorities
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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 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.
18 awarded tenders, 210 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.
Open notices
3 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenhouse Gas Calculator system | 29 Feb 2028 | 491d | £2,688,000 |
| EPoS systems (2025 - 2029) | 5 Dec 2028 | 771d | £1,800,000 |
| Vending Machine Services, and Vending Machine Concepts and Innovation DPS (2025 - 2029) | 19 Dec 2028 | 785d | £24,000,000 |
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
15 Food, drink, tobacco9 procedures · 69%42 Industrial machinery2 procedures · 15% · 1 open03 Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry2 procedures · 15%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances2 procedures · 15%30 Office and computing machinery1 procedures · 8%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals1 procedures · 8%48 Software package and information systems1 procedures · 8%50 Repair and maintenance services1 procedures · 8%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 · 13 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.
Framework92%(12 notices)
12 of 13 notices are Framework (92%).Dynamic purchasing system8%(1 notices)
1 of 13 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (8%).
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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.
Open69%(9 notices)
9 of 13 notices are Open (69%).Selective23%(3 notices)
3 of 13 notices are Selective (23%).Route not published8%(1 notices)
1 of 13 notices are Route not published (8%).
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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 13 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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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| Brake Bros Ltd | 6 | 33.3% | 4 | 38 | 3 Sept 2026 |
| Bidfresh Limited T/A Direct Seafoods | 4 | 22.2% | 2 | 39 | 3 Sept 2026 |
| Turner Price Limited | 3 | 16.7% | 3 | 11 | 3 Sept 2026 |
| Harlech Foodservice Limited | 3 | 16.7% | 3 | 11 | 3 Sept 2026 |
| Tamar Fresh Ltd | 3 | 16.7% | 3 | 8 | 3 Sept 2026 |
| Dunsters Farm Limited | 3 | 16.7% | 2 | 19 | 3 Sept 2026 |
| ARTHUR DAVID (FOOD WITH SERVICE) LIMITED | 3 | 16.7% | 2 | 10 | 3 Sept 2026 |
| McLays Ltd | 3 | 16.7% | 2 | 3 | 3 Sept 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 44% of 18 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 210 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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.
100 of 113 contracts carry an end date, 51 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Premium packaged beers & cider | BFS GROUP LIMITED, Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company, Dayla Limited +5 | 8 Feb 2028 estimated | £5,600,000 |
| Spirits & fortified wines | BFS GROUP LIMITED, Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company, Dayla Limited +7 | 8 Feb 2028 estimated | £5,600,000 |
| Core wines and all wines | BFS GROUP LIMITED, Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company, Dayla Limited +8 | 8 Feb 2028 estimated | £5,600,000 |
| One stop shop option (i.e. draught, packaged, spirits and wines) | Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company, Dayla Limited, Greene King Brewing and Retailing Limited +4 | 8 Feb 2028 estimated | £5,600,000 |
| Independent brewers | Dayla Limited, Greene King Brewing and Retailing Limited, HB Clark & Co (Successors) Ltd +5 | 8 Feb 2028 estimated | £5,600,000 |
| Draught beers & cider | Carlsberg Marston's Brewing Company, Dayla Limited, Greene King Brewing and Retailing Limited +4 | 19 Feb 2028 estimated | £5,600,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 30 of 29 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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| Fresh Fruit & Vegetables and Associated ProductsAssorted dairy products | Awarded / complete | 16 Oct 2026 | £45,000,000 |
| Catering Technologies and ServicesComputer equipment and supplies | Planned | 16 Oct 2026 | £11,200,000 |
| GFC27 Supply & Distribution of Grocery, Frozen, Chilled & Catering SuppliesCatering supplies | Planned | 6 Oct 2026 | £0 |
| Supply of Sandwiches, Salads, Platters and associated products | Awarded / complete | 29 Sept 2026 | — |
| ALC28 Spirits and Core Wines, Beer and CiderCider and other fruit wines | Planned | 25 Sept 2026 | — |
| Food & Drink ConceptsAnimal products | Awarded / complete | 20 Aug 2026 | £40,000,000 |
| Fresh Butchered Meat and Poultry and Associated Products (2026 - 2030)Animal products | Awarded / complete | 12 Aug 2026 | £32,000,000 |
| Light and Heavy Catering Equipment and Associated ServicesCatering equipment | Planned | 12 Aug 2026 | — |
| Milk, Dairy, Bread & Baked GoodsBread | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2026 | £20,000,000 |
| Convenience RetailFood | Planned | 30 Jun 2026 | £40,000,000 |
| Sandwiches and Associated Products (2026 - 2030)Bread products | Awarded / complete | 3 Jun 2026 | £80,000,000 |
| Provision of Temporary and Permanent Staff TS25Staff development services | Awarded / complete | 29 Oct 2025 | £20,000,000 |
| Fresh Fish and SeafoodFish | Awarded / complete | 5 Sept 2025 | £10,000,000 |
| HOTBEV23 Supply and Distribution of Hot Beverage Ingredients, equipment and associated productsCoffee | Awarded / complete | 26 Apr 2024 | £35,000,000 |
| ALC23 Spirits and Core Wines, Beer and CiderDistilled alcoholic beverages | Awarded / complete | 28 Mar 2024 | £56,000,000 |
| Supply and Distribution of Catering Light and Heavy EquipmentCatering equipment | Awarded / complete | 12 Oct 2023 | £30,700,000 |
| Supply of Milk, Dairy, Bread & Morning GoodsBread | Awarded / complete | 11 Apr 2023 | £28,000,000 |
| Sandwiches and Associated ProductsBread products | Awarded / complete | 29 Mar 2023 | £60,000,000 |
| Kitchen Equipment Maintenance, Deep Cleaning & Ventilation Ducting ServicesCleaning services | Open | 28 Mar 2023 | £2,369,288 |
| Design & Installation for the Customer experience (Catering and Social Spaces)Kitchen or restaurant conversion | Awarded / complete | 11 Jan 2023 | £15,000,000 |
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. 100 of 113 published contracts have an end date; 51 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.