University of Sussex: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

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Open now1next deadline 16 Nov 2026
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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.

Notices, last 12 months53-7% vs prior 12 months (57)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot50% single-bid · 3 bid reports
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share7%of 109 awarded procedures · 99 suppliers
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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.

109 awarded tenders, 99 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months197 within 6 months · 3 estimated
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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.

Published award value, 24m£76mnet · on 80 of 80 published values · top 5 = 77%
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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

1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Life Sciences Equipment - Cagewash, IVC and Decontamination5 lots16 Nov 202618d£425,000

What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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 · 110 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract99%(109 notices)
    109 of 110 notices are Contract (99%).
  • Framework1%(1 notice)
    1 of 110 notices is Framework (1%).
Procedure route
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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 / restricted47%(52 notices)
    52 of 110 notices are Limited / restricted (47%).
  • Route not published26%(29 notices)
    29 of 110 notices are Route not published (26%).
  • Direct award21%(23 notices)
    23 of 110 notices are Direct award (21%).
  • Open5%(5 notices)
    5 of 110 notices are Open (5%).
  • Selective1%(1 notice)
    1 of 110 notices is Selective (1%).
Typical bids per lot
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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.

Last 24 months, all categories.

5moderate · n=30% of lots drew a single bid
Notice amendments
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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 110 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

04 of 110 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 2 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

15.6% below estimateindicative · n=2

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Softcat Plc32.8%33—
Academia Ltd32.8%33—
China Britain Business Council21.8%22—
SAUNDERS SPECIALISED SERVICES LIMITED21.8%22—
CONCEPT BUILDING SERVICES (SOUTHERN) LTD21.8%22—
Ex Libris UK Ltd.21.8%22—
Hurco Europe Ltd21.8%22—
UNIT4 Business Software Limited21.8%22—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 109 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 99 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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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.

£76mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 80 of 80 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 77%; a further 9 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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The middle published award value for this buyer.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£139k middle valuerobust · n=80Middle half £66k–£340k.
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Managed Service Provider (MSP) StaffingAdecco UK Limited (t/a The Adecco Group)——£30,000,000 †
MRI Scanner ServicingSiemens Healthcare Limited—1.1 yrs£12,186,800 †
≈ £11m/yr
Proofpoint RenewalAcademia Ltd—3 yrs£9,825,093 †
≈ £3.3m/yr
Provision of Student Recruitment Intelligence and Advertising ServicesUCAS Media Ltd——£3,750,000 †
Travel Management Company (TMC) ServiceKey Travel——£2,700,000 †

Contracts ending
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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.

71 of 109 contracts carry an end date, 14 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 19 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 139 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
LTM - Library Lighting Replacement Basement Ground FloorAwarded / complete13 Apr 2026—
CNC LatheAwarded / complete26 Mar 2026—
CNC Milling MachineAwarded / complete26 Mar 2026—
Campus MAwarded / complete26 Mar 2026—
UKVI Compliance ServiceAwarded / complete23 Mar 2026—
US_26125 - Settlement SupportAwarded / complete17 Mar 2026—
US_25229Awarded / complete12 Mar 2026—
Infrastructure - WRM - Arts Substation to Main Intake Panel Cabling WorksAwarded / complete12 Mar 2026—
Optical Frequency Comb ExtensionAwarded / complete2 Mar 2026—
eBooks AggregatorLibrary software packageAwarded / complete25 Feb 2026—
Microsoft Unified Enterprise supportIT services: consultingAwarded / complete23 Feb 2026—
Magnetic ShieldingAwarded / complete19 Feb 2026—
Swanborough Halls Fire Safety WorksAwarded / complete10 Feb 2026—
Residential Management SystemSoftware package and information systemsAwarded / complete3 Feb 2026—
MFD RenewalServices related to printingAwarded / complete2 Feb 2026—
Dell Data Protection SuiteSoftware package and information systemsAwarded / complete2 Feb 2026—
In-country Student Recruitment Support - Malaysia / SE AsiaPayroll management servicesAwarded / complete28 Jan 2026—
WSMD - Old Medical Centre Services DisconnectionAwarded / complete9 Jan 2026—
Arts A RAAC RemediationAwarded / complete8 Jan 2026—
Marketing Support ChinaAwarded / complete7 Jan 2026—

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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. 71 of 109 published contracts have an end date; 14 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.