University of Worcester: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
DfE school register: Higher education institutions·Education·West Midlands·Worcester
Official UK PPONPYJR-8772-LLDPWebsiteworcester.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 9 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.
33 awarded tenders, 38 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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| UOW997 - SJC Storage Unit | 2 Nov 2026 | 8d | £0 |
| UOW999 Sports Clothing Tender | 13 Nov 2026 | 18d | £165,000 |
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
48 Software package and information systems11 procedures · 22%45 Construction work9 procedures · 18% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting8 procedures · 16%50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 8%80 Education and training services4 procedures · 8%33 Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals3 procedures · 6%39 Furniture, furnishings, domestic appliances2 procedures · 4% · 1 open42 Industrial machinery2 procedures · 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 · 49 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.
Contract100%(49 notices)
49 of 49 notices are Contract (100%).
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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.
Open57%(28 notices)
28 of 49 notices are Open (57%).Direct award20%(10 notices)
10 of 49 notices are Direct award (20%).Route not published12%(6 notices)
6 of 49 notices are Route not published (12%).Selective10%(5 notices)
5 of 49 notices are Selective (10%).
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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 9 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 8 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 49 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 1 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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| IDP Connect Ltd | 1 | 3% | 1 | 2 | — |
| CHARTERED MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE | 1 | 3% | 1 | 1 | — |
| STUDENTS ORGANISING FOR SUSTAINABILITY | 1 | 3% | 1 | 1 | — |
| WARWICK UNIVERSITY SERVICES LIMITED t/a jobs.ac.uk | 1 | 3% | 1 | 1 | — |
| ACTIVE PUMP SERVICES LTD | 1 | 3% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Smith's (Gloucester) Limited | 1 | 3% | 1 | 1 | — |
| AMB GLASS & MALVERN WINDOWS LIMITED | 1 | 3% | 1 | 1 | — |
| Complete Communication Services Ltd | 1 | 3% | 1 | 1 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 9% of 33 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 38 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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| UOW962 - Advertising and Media Buying Services | RH Advertising | 19 Feb 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £2,000,000 ≈ £1.0m/yr |
| Chartered Management Institute Course Membership | CHARTERED MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE | — | 6 yrs | £180,972 † ≈ £30k/yr |
| UOW982 - Borehole for Lakeside Campus | ACTIVE PUMP SERVICES LTD | — | 2.8 yrs | £85,000 † ≈ £30k/yr |
| UOW981 - Applicant Tracking Software (ATS) | ITS SOFTWARE SYSTEMS LIMITED | 1 May 2026 | 4 yrs · up to 7 yrs | £76,804 ≈ £19k/yr |
| Avon Hall Bathrooms | Snape Contracting Services Ltd | — | 3 mo | £71,793 † |
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.
32 of 32 contracts carry an end date, 3 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| UOW896 Design Services | W&J Linney Ltd | 31 Oct 2026 | £360,000 |
| WhatUni Bundle | IDP Connect Ltd | 21 Jun 2027 | £35,000 |
| Subscription to SOS-UK | STUDENTS ORGANISING FOR SUSTAINABILITY | 31 Jul 2027 | £26,900 |
| CLA Licence for Students | THE COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY LTD | 31 Jul 2027 | £61,572 |
| Recruitment Advertising | WARWICK UNIVERSITY SERVICES LIMITED t/a jobs.ac.uk | 31 Jul 2027 | £30,000 |
| UOW966 High Voltage systems Service, Maintenance & Remedials | Ipsum Power (Private Networks) Ltd | 5 Aug 2027 | £22,712 |
| Lexis Plus Academic Library | Relx (UK) Limited t/a LexisNexis | 16 Aug 2027 | £40,310 |
| UOW967 Job Board | WR Group t/a "Webrecruit" | 31 Oct 2027 | £72,000 |
| BMS Service and Maintenance | Concord Environmental Technologies Ltd | 29 Feb 2028 | £65,000 |
| UOW962 - Advertising and Media Buying Services | RH Advertising, RH Advertising | 16 Mar 2028 | £2,000,000 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 61 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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| Replacement doors to St Johns Halls | Awarded / complete | 1 Oct 2026 | — |
| UOW1002 - Video, audio and vital signs recording for medical procedures and simulationAudio-visual equipment | Open | 30 Sept 2026 | £0 |
| UOW954 Security StaffingSecurity services | Awarded / complete | 16 Sept 2026 | £3,000,000 |
| UOW1000 - Drainage ServicesDrainage works | Open | 27 Aug 2026 | £25,000 |
| Recruitment Advertising | Awarded / complete | 19 Aug 2026 | — |
| Lexis Plus Academic Library | Awarded / complete | 14 Aug 2026 | — |
| CLA Licence for Students | Awarded / complete | 14 Aug 2026 | — |
| APA PsycInfo & Psyc Articles | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2026 | — |
| WhatUni Bundle | Awarded / complete | 11 Aug 2026 | — |
| Subscription to SOS-UK | Awarded / complete | 10 Aug 2026 | — |
| UOW990 - Nutrition Analysis SoftwareIndustry specific software package | Awarded / complete | 6 Aug 2026 | £14,000 |
| Roofing Works | Awarded / complete | 4 Aug 2026 | — |
| BSL Interpretation Services | Awarded / complete | 4 Aug 2026 | — |
| UOW998 – Snow Clearing & GrittingIce-clearing services | Open | 31 Jul 2026 | £0 |
| UOW991 University of Worcester Outdoor Covered Cricket FacilityConstruction work for buildings relating to leisure | Open | 24 Jul 2026 | £0 |
| UOW994 - Digital Teaching, Assessment & Media PlatformEducational software package | Planning | 13 Jul 2026 | — |
| UOW984 West Africa Representative (based in Nigeria)Higher education services | Awarded / complete | 13 Jul 2026 | £0 |
| Student out of Hours Wellbeing SupportCounselling services | Awarded / complete | 8 Jul 2026 | £0 |
| UOW981 - Applicant Tracking Software (ATS)Recruitment services | Awarded / complete | 3 Jul 2026 | £84,000 |
| UWQ329 - Fuel Cards | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2026 | — |
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. 32 of 32 published contracts have an end date; 3 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.