Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£744k
12 m spend
£2.9m
Prior 12 m
-75%
YoY change
£198k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Anglia Ruskin University — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£646k£1.3m£1.9m£2.6mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£232k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
5 recorded contracts worth £1.2m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

Unspecified255 · £49.1m
services54 · £25.1m
goods18 · £3.8m

Instrument type

contract326 · £77.9m
call off1 · £36k
Source:Contracts Finder: 250Find a Tender: 77

Awarded contracts · 14 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Anglia Ruskin University is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
EC
1 contract · 28 Jul
£8.4m
2
NN
1 contract · SME
£6.0mest.
3
HN
1 contract · SME
£6.0mest.
4
WA
2 contracts · 15 Jun
£4.0m
5
VE
1 contract · 07 Apr
£3.0m
6
SB
1 contract · SME · 17 Feb
£3.0m
7
LG
2 contracts · SME · 18 Nov
£1.9mest.
8
UL
2 contracts · 05 Sept
£1.6mest.
9147
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139 other suppliers
long tail · 39 SMEs
£19.7m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
38 contracts
£37.2m
52%
Other
8 contracts
£17.5m
24%
Other community services
3 contracts
£5.1m
7%
Architecture, engineering
7 contracts
£3.5m
5%
Furniture, cleaning
4 contracts
£3.1m
4%
Health & social work
4 contracts
£2.0m
3%
Education, training
10 contracts
£1.9m
3%
Office equipment, IT
10 contracts
£1.8m
3%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

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Business, legal, advisory
Other
1
0
Other community services
Architecture, engineering
Furniture, cleaning
Health & social work
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 0 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

Anglia Ruskin University has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

28%
SME supplier share
target 33%
54
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
147
Distinct suppliers
43%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
3%
Local suppliers (CM postcodes)
2 of 58 with known office
1%
Value to local suppliers
£400k of £39.6m
39%
Postcode coverage
58 of 147 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the CM postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 28% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKH36
Contact
Procurement Team
Email
procurement@aru.ac.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

Resources

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