John Smith and Sons Group Limited: UK Public Sector Contracts Won & Awards

SMECompanies House: Private Limited CompanyEdinburghScotlandMain market: Printed books

Official UK PPONPZRC-6227-VDVR

Procedures with an award79 award records
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How many tenders this supplier has won.

Tenders with at least one award to it. Award records are shown too, because one framework can carry many call-offs.

Public authorities6named on published awards
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How many different public bodies have awarded to this supplier.

Buyers named on its awards, with duplicate names merged.

Attributable award value£1.9mnet · on 4 of 9 award records · single-supplier, no ceilings
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How much this supplier has won, by published values.

Sum of award values where it was the only winner, VAT excluded, framework ceilings left out.

Not turnover. Not every award publishes a value.

Last 12 months2awards · 1 in the prior 24 months · last 8 Oct 2026
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Awards to this supplier in the last 12 months.

Award records dated in the last 12 months, against the two years before.

Buyer regions5most often South East England
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In which regions this supplier wins work.

The region of each buyer it won from: the buyer’s office, placed by the official ONS postcode lookup. Each procedure counts once.

Where the buyer is based, not necessarily where the work was done; the tender page shows the published place of delivery.

Where they win
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In which categories this supplier wins.

Distinct awards by the main category of the lot, or of the procedure when no lot is named. Repeat publications count once.

An award counts once in each class it covers; classes can overlap.

Active awards, plus pending awards whose standstill has ended or was not published.

9 awards (9 for a named lot, 100%, 0 for a whole procedure with no lot named) · top CPV classes, shares of all 9 awards. An award may cover more than one class.

2211 Printed books4 awards · 44% · awards naming a lot
3020 Computer equipment and supplies1 award · 11% · awards naming a lot
3916 School furniture1 award · 11% · awards naming a lot
6660 Treasury services1 award · 11% · awards naming a lot
7221 Programming services of packaged software products1 award · 11% · awards naming a lot
Attributable award value
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How much this supplier has won, by published values.

Sum of award values where it was the only winner, VAT excluded, framework ceilings left out.

Not turnover. Not every award publishes a value.

£1.9mOn 4 of 9 award records; the five largest make 100%. Largest rows below.
Typical attributable award
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What one of this supplier’s wins is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

£459k middle valuemoderate · n=4
Award vs estimate
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Does this supplier usually win above or below the buyer’s estimate.

Its own wins, estimate against award per lot, in its sector.

Based on 1 wins across all categories. Small sample.

A past pattern, not a margin and not a price to bid.

25% below estimateindicative · n=1compared within all comparable wins
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.

AuthorityAwardedTermPublished value
Student Payment PlatformCanterbury Christ Church University—4.8 yrs£845,000
≈ £175k/yr
PPE Ref 9886 Direct Award for the Provision of Transitional ServicesUniversity of Glasgow on behalf of G U Heritage Retail Limited——£693,150 †
Provision of Digital Devices though a fund allocation schemeAnglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation——£225,000 †
Cashless financial support for students and provision of online student marketplaceUNIVERSITY OF SALFORD(THE)——£150,000 †

Where their buyers are
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In which regions this supplier wins work.

The region of each buyer it won from: the buyer’s office, placed by the official ONS postcode lookup. Each procedure counts once.

Where the buyer is based, not necessarily where the work was done; the tender page shows the published place of delivery.

ITL1 region of the buyer office · known for 7 of 7 awarded procedures · each procedure counts once

South East England3 procedures · 43%
North West England1 procedure · 14%
East of England1 procedure · 14%
Greater London1 procedure · 14%
Scotland1 procedure · 14%

Bidding record
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Competitions this supplier is known to have bid in.

Lots on Procurement Act 2023 award notices naming it as a bidder, split into won and lost. The lot is the contest: three lots of a ten-lot notice is three wins and seven losses.

Procurement Act 2023 award notices name every bidder · 1 notice names this supplier since 20 Oct 2026 · observed bids, not an estimate

Contract lots contested
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Competitions this supplier is known to have bid in.

Lots on Procurement Act 2023 award notices naming it as a bidder, split into won and lost. The lot is the contest: three lots of a ten-lot notice is three wins and seven losses.

0 won · 0 lostFewer than three decided lots: no rate is claimed.
Framework / DPS places
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Frameworks and DPS this supplier got onto.

Lots appointed out of lots applied for. Kept apart from contract wins because almost every compliant bidder gets a place.

1 of 1
Authorities bid for
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How many public bodies this supplier has bid to.

Buyers on notices that name it as a bidder, win or lose.

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NoticeAuthorityOutcomeBiddersPublished
Cloud Backup Servicesframework/DPSForeign, Commonwealth and Development Officeappointed4,23320 Oct 2026

Bidder names come from Procurement Act 2023 award notices, which list every bidder (from 2025). Older notices name no bidders, so earlier contests do not appear here. Latest ten notices shown.

Who they sell to
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Which public bodies award work to this supplier.

Authorities named on its published awards, ranked by distinct procedures, duplicate names merged.

Authorities named on this supplier’s published awards · ranked by distinct procedures · a framework or DPS adds one award record per appointed supplier

Authority type · official UK type when published, else name/id class, else not classified · by award records (a single panel can dominate)
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What kinds of public bodies award work to this supplier.

Its award records by the authority’s published type, otherwise by its name. One framework can add many records.

  • Type not classified56%(5 awards)
    5 of 9 awards are Type not classified (56%).
  • Education44%(4 awards)
    4 of 9 awards are Education (44%).
AuthorityProceduresShareAward recordsLast activity
University of Readingframework/DPS on 2228.6%44 Jan 2022
Canterbury Christ Church University114.3%18 Oct 2026
University of Glasgow on behalf of G U Heritage Retail Limited114.3%131 May 2024
Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation114.3%119 Oct 2022
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD(THE)114.3%120 Feb 2023
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Officeframework/DPS on 1114.3%124 Jul 2026

Share = of the 7 procedures with an award naming this supplier. Last activity = award date, or notice publication when no award date was published.

Recent awards

Latest 9 of 9 award records naming this supplier

Award / procedureAuthorityAwardedPublished value
Lot 2b Software as a Service (Saas)Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office24 Jul 2026£14,000,000,000
framework ceiling · 1 of 2744 appointed suppliers
Student Payment PlatformCanterbury Christ Church UniversityNot published£845,000
PPE Ref 9886 Direct Award for the Provision of Transitional ServicesUniversity of Glasgow on behalf of G U Heritage Retail LimitedNot published£693,150 †
from the contract notice
Cashless financial support for students and provision of online student marketplaceUNIVERSITY OF SALFORD(THE)Not published£150,000 †
from the contract notice
Provision of Digital Devices though a fund allocation schemeAnglia Ruskin University Higher Education CorporationNot published£225,000 †
from the contract notice
English language print books for institution department purchase (primarily non-library)University of ReadingNot published£20,000,000 †
framework ceiling · 1 of 5 appointed suppliers
Sales to individuals – staff and students (print or electronic)University of ReadingNot published£4,000,000 †
framework ceiling · 1 of 5 appointed suppliers
E-textbook access, usually priced by specified number of core users and delivered via an e-textbook platformUniversity of ReadingNot published£100,000,000 †
framework ceiling · 1 of 5 appointed suppliers
Books, E-books, Standing orders and Related Materials — Joint Consortia Framework AgreementUniversity of ReadingNot published£360,000,000 †
framework ceiling · 1 of 14 appointed suppliers
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 supplier. Built from award and contract notices that name this supplier; different spellings and registration numbers of the same company are merged into this profile.
  • Values are published values. The table mirrors what the notice published: framework ceilings and joint awards are labelled and never counted as this supplier's money, and † marks a value taken from the contract notice when the award published none. Only awards made to this supplier alone count towards its value, excluding VAT. It is not turnover.
  • Regions on this page are where the work is delivered, not the supplier’s registered address.
  • Contract end dates. Published on 2 of 9 awards, estimated from the published duration on 5 more (marked “estimated”); those feed “Contracts ending”.
  • 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.