Technical and vocational secondary education services: UK Tenders, Buyers & Competition

CPV 80210000Services · classin Education & Training

Open now4open for bids now · see them in the search
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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 months97 contracting authorities · 24 in the catalogue
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

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

Codes and neighbouring classes

The 8-digit CPV codes notices in this class actually use, and the other classes of the same division

Who buys
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.

Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.

All notices carrying this code · official UK_CA_TYPE where published (NHS bodies are central government authorities), else derived from the authority name

Buyer type
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.

Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.

  • Central government38%(9 notices)
    9 of 24 notices are Central government (38%).
  • Local authorities33%(8 notices)
    8 of 24 notices are Local authorities (33%).
  • Education & universities17%(4 notices)
    4 of 24 notices are Education & universities (17%).
  • Other public bodies13%(3 notices)
    3 of 24 notices are Other public bodies (13%).
Contracting authorityTypeNoticesLast 12 monthsOpen now
Department for EducationCentral government300
The King's TrustOther public bodies320
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined AuthorityLocal authorities220
Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual)Central government200
Birmingham City UniversityEducation & universities100
City of Sunderland CollegeEducation & universities110
Coventry City CouncilLocal authorities110
Defence Science and Technology LaboratoryCentral government110
Department for Science, Innovation & TechnologyCentral government110
Fermanagh and Omagh District CouncilLocal authorities100

18 distinct authorities in total · the ten most active shown.

Where the work is delivered
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Where the work on these notices is delivered.

Delivery regions published on the notices. A notice with several regions counts in each.

Where the work is, not where the buyer is based.

Delivery regions (ITL1) published on 15 of 24 notices · a notice covering several regions counts in each · competition columns: contracts awarded in the last 36 months, lots delivered in the region

RegionNoticesBids / lotSME winsLocal wins
West Midlands6 · 40%———
East of England3 · 20%———
South West England2 · 13%———
North East England2 · 13%———
Scotland2 · 13%———
Yorkshire and the Humber2 · 13%———
Wales (Cymru)1 · 7%———
Northern Ireland1 · 7%———
East Midlands1 · 7%———
North West England1 · 7%———
South East England1 · 7%———

Local wins = the winner’s registered region is the delivery region. Dashes: fewer than ten observations.

How it is bought
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How work here is packaged.

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

Commercial tool, procedure route and threshold 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.

  • Contract75%(18 notices)
    18 of 24 notices are Contract (75%).
  • Framework25%(6 notices)
    6 of 24 notices are Framework (25%).
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.

  • Open75%(18 notices)
    18 of 24 notices are Open (75%).
  • Direct award8%(2 notices)
    2 of 24 notices are Direct award (8%).
  • Route not published8%(2 notices)
    2 of 24 notices are Route not published (8%).
  • Selective4%(1 notices)
    1 of 24 notices are Selective (4%).
  • Limited / restricted4%(1 notices)
    1 of 24 notices are Limited / restricted (4%).
Threshold
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How much of this market is above the legal threshold.

Notices by whether the buyer marked them above or below the threshold that triggers the full rules.

  • Above threshold45%(5 notices)
    5 of 11 notices are Above threshold (45%).
  • Below threshold55%(6 notices)
    6 of 11 notices are Below threshold (55%).
Typical tender window
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How long bidders get to respond.

Middle value in days from the tender notice to its deadline.

All notices we hold, not just recent ones.

25 daysrobust · n=7middle value, notice to deadline

Who wins
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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.

Ranked by distinct procedures won on notices carrying this code, then award records · 12 awards to 10 suppliers

Where to submit
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Where bids for this work are submitted.

Notices by the portal in their submission link, where one is published.

E-sourcing portals named in the submission address · 16 of 24 notices name one · each portal page explains registration

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.
  • What counts here. Every notice with a CPV code starting 8021. A notice with several codes counts in each sector it names. Notices from 2021 to 2 Oct 2026.
  • Competition. Bids and winners cover the last three years and count each lot as its own contest; frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems are shown apart from ordinary contracts.
  • Why no total spend. Notice estimates often repeat a framework’s ceiling, so adding them up would overstate the market. Typical contract values are shown instead.
  • 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.