University of Essex: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
Companies House: Royal Charter Company·DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·East of England·Colchester
Official UK PPONPQBL-6931-JNGJWebsiteessex.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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
34 awarded tenders, 103 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, consulting5 procedures · 25%45 Construction work2 procedures · 10%48 Software package and information systems2 procedures · 10%50 Repair and maintenance services2 procedures · 10%64 Postal and telecommunications services2 procedures · 10%66 Financial and insurance services2 procedures · 10%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet2 procedures · 10%85 Health and social work services2 procedures · 10%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 · 20 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.
Contract80%(16 notices)
16 of 20 notices are Contract (80%).Framework20%(4 notices)
4 of 20 notices are Framework (20%).
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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 award45%(9 notices)
9 of 20 notices are Direct award (45%).Open30%(6 notices)
6 of 20 notices are Open (30%).Route not published15%(3 notices)
3 of 20 notices are Route not published (15%).Limited / restricted5%(1 notices)
1 of 20 notices are Limited / restricted (5%).Selective5%(1 notices)
1 of 20 notices are Selective (5%).
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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 3 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 4 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 20 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 3 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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| SSE Energy Supply Limited | 2 | 5.9% | 0 | 4 | — |
| CorEnergy Limited | 2 | 5.9% | 0 | 4 | — |
| Water Plus Limited | 2 | 5.9% | 0 | 2 | — |
| Forbes Solicitors | 1 | 2.9% | 1 | 7 | — |
| Weightmans LLP | 1 | 2.9% | 1 | 7 | — |
| Bevan Brittan | 1 | 2.9% | 1 | 7 | — |
| Eversheds LLP | 1 | 2.9% | 1 | 6 | — |
| Freeths LLP | 1 | 2.9% | 1 | 6 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 34 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 103 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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| T1170 - Advertising and Marketing | Hybrid News Limited | 27 Mar 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 7 yrs | £8,333,333 ≈ £2.8m/yr |
| Gas Maintenance Works and Remedial Works | Athena mechanical services ltd | — | 3 yrs · up to 7 yrs | £2,916,666 † ≈ £972k/yr |
| T1184 Blood Sample Collection and Analysis | Randox Laboratories Ltd | 30 Apr 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £745,238 ≈ £373k/yr |
| Morocco Social Survey In Rural Communities | Social Laboratory -SOLAB | 25 Nov 2025 | 5 mo · up to 0.6 yrs | £303,894 |
| Oxford Law Trove Subscription | Oxford University Press Limited | 19 Aug 2026 | 3 yrs | £275,000 ≈ £92k/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.
49 of 53 contracts carry an end date, 40 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 16 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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| Spectrophotometer System | Awarded / complete | 26 Aug 2026 | — |
| Oxford Law Trove Subscription | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2026 | — |
| Research: Multilingualism, Conflict and Conflict Resolution in Africa | Awarded / complete | 16 Jun 2026 | — |
| Student Engagement Analytics System | Awarded / complete | 10 Jun 2026 | — |
| T1170 Advertising and MarketingAdvertising and marketing services | Awarded / complete | 2 Jun 2026 | £8,333,333 |
| Gas Maintenance Works and Remedial Works | Awarded / complete | 28 May 2026 | — |
| Renewable Energy Power Purchase AgreementEnergy and related services | Planning | 18 May 2026 | £108,330,000 |
| T1148 - Blood Sample Collection and AnalysisBlood analysis services | Awarded / complete | 7 May 2026 | £1,125,000 |
| Morocco Social Survey In Rural CommunitiesSurvey services | Awarded / complete | 17 Feb 2026 | £320,000 |
| T1184 - IP20 Blood Sample CollectionBlood analysis services | Planning | 18 Dec 2025 | £1,125,000 |
| Framework for the provision of Flooring Supplies and ServicesAdhesive tape of rubberised textiles | Awarded / complete | 21 Oct 2025 | £60,000,000 |
| Communications SolutionsAir-to-ground telecommunications services | Awarded / complete | 11 Sept 2025 | £90,000,000 |
| T1157 - CAS Shield Software | Awarded / complete | 8 Sept 2025 | — |
| T1121 - Card Acquiring Services 2025Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services | Planning | 11 Aug 2025 | £3,500,000 |
| Robotic Overground Harness System | Awarded / complete | 15 Jul 2025 | — |
| Scheduling System | Awarded / complete | 17 Jun 2025 | — |
| Framework for the provision of Legal ServicesCertification services | Awarded / complete | 10 Jun 2025 | £63,000,000 |
| Print and Associated Services Framework to include Hybrid Mail and Digital Transformation SolutionsArchiving services | Awarded / complete | 23 May 2025 | £100,000,000 |
| AppsAnywhere | Awarded / complete | 21 May 2025 | — |
| T1142 - Finance System 2025 Direct Award | Awarded / complete | 21 May 2025 | — |
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. 49 of 53 published contracts have an end date; 40 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.