University of Bedfordshire: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·East of England·Luton
Registry IDGB-UKPRN-10007152Websitebeds.ac.uk ↗
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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 12 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.
113 awarded tenders, 80 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 |
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| Provision of Workwear Clothing & Promotional Items - UoB | 9 Nov 2026 | 11d | £437,500 |
| Provision of HCLS Paramedic & Nursing Suite works | 20 Nov 2026 | 22d | £550,000 |
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
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting13 procedures · 12% · 1 open45 Construction work10 procedures · 9% · 1 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet9 procedures · 8%71 Architectural, construction, engineering6 procedures · 6%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances3 procedures · 3%48 Software package and information systems3 procedures · 3%32 Radio, television, communication2 procedures · 2%55 Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services2 procedures · 2%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 · 108 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.
Contract98%(106 notices)
106 of 108 notices are Contract (98%).Framework2%(2 notices)
2 of 108 notices are Framework (2%).
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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.
Direct award43%(46 notices)
46 of 108 notices are Direct award (43%).Limited / restricted29%(31 notices)
31 of 108 notices are Limited / restricted (29%).Open24%(26 notices)
26 of 108 notices are Open (24%).Route not published3%(3 notices)
3 of 108 notices are Route not published (3%).Selective2%(2 notices)
2 of 108 notices are Selective (2%).
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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 12 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 13 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 105 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 8 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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| EBSCO INTERNATIONAL INC. | 6 | 5.3% | 6 | 6 | 15 Oct 2026 |
| THE COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY LTD | 4 | 3.5% | 3 | 4 | 21 Sept 2026 |
| boxxe Limited | 3 | 2.7% | 3 | 3 | 3 Jul 2026 |
| London Metropolitan University | 3 | 2.7% | 3 | 3 | 15 Jul 2026 |
| HACEL LIGHTING LIMITED | 3 | 2.7% | 3 | 3 | 28 Jul 2026 |
| Southern Universities Management Services (SUMS Consulting) | 3 | 2.7% | 3 | 3 | 16 Jul 2026 |
| Advance HE | 3 | 2.7% | 3 | 3 | 29 Jun 2026 |
| UK 3B Scientific Ltd | 3 | 2.7% | 3 | 3 | 1 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 12% of 113 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 80 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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| The Provision of Catering Services - University of Bedfordshire | CH&CO Catering Group Limited | — | — | £3,451,221 † |
| The Provision of Campus Staff Support Services | Blue Arrow Ltd | 21 Jan 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £1,250,000 ≈ £417k/yr |
| UoB F101, CST & CDC Enabling Works | Sloane Curtis Interiors Ltd | 13 Jun 2025 | — | £794,303 |
| Unit4 Cloud Migration Contract | UNIT4 Business Software Limited | 26 Aug 2025 | 5 yrs | £762,455 ≈ £152k/yr |
| Mini Competition SBS Framework ref SBS10190 - Multi Disciplinary Design Team | RSK Environment Ltd | — | — | £639,498 † |
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.
28 of 64 contracts carry an end date, 9 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Lighting replacement projects | HACEL LIGHTING LIMITED | 30 Oct 2026 | £107,930 |
| Provision of Web Support & Hosting Services Tender | CTI Digital | 30 Nov 2026 | Not published |
| Work Placement Software Package | Quantum IT Europe Limited | 13 Jan 2027 estimated | £68,090 |
| Provision of Learning Management Systems - LMS - UoB | Kallidus | 30 Jun 2027 | £211,000 |
| Provision of Graduation Services UoB | Concept Event Solutions LTD | 30 Jun 2027 | £219,063 |
| Provision of Paramedic simulation equipment in HSS Faculty | UK 3B Scientific Ltd | 1 Aug 2027 | £67,411 |
| Egress renewal | boxxe Limited | 1 Aug 2027 | £30,894 |
| Million plus annual membership | London Metropolitan University | 31 Aug 2027 | £25,254 |
| Provision of Oracle and SQL Server Database support services | PRO DBA LIMITED | 31 Aug 2027 | £34,686 |
| Broadcom vSphere License Renewal | Phoenix Software Ltd | 23 Sept 2027 | £315,256 |
Soonest 10 of 14 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 138 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
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. 28 of 64 published contracts have an end date; 9 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.