Spend profile

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

£18.0m
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£200k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Arts University Bournemouth — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£3.5m£7.0m£11m£14mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

1

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
No recorded contracts end within the next 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified41 · £27.2m
services7 · £17.7m
works4 · £8.6m
goods3 · £35k

Instrument type

contract55 · £53.6m
Source:Contracts Finder: 35Find a Tender: 20

Awarded contracts · 9 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Arts University Bournemouth 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
SR
£17.0mest.
2
CM
2 contracts · 21 Oct
£12.6m
3
DF
1 contract · 30 Jul
£8.3m
4
MS
£1.5m
5
RB
1 contract · SME · 16 Jul
£800k
6
SC
1 contract · SME · 16 Jul
£800k
7
KU
1 contract · 26 Oct
£570k
8
HA
£525k
924
···
16 other suppliers
long tail · 3 SMEs
£2.8m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Sewage, waste, environment
1 contract
£17.0m
35%
Business, legal, advisory
2 contracts
£12.9m
27%
Repair & maintenance
1 contract
£8.3m
17%
Other
12 contracts
£6.3m
13%
Construction works
4 contracts
£2.3m
5%
Financial, insurance
2 contracts
£720k
1%
Industrial machinery
5 contracts
£292k
1%
Office equipment, IT
3 contracts
£206k
0%

Activity heatmap

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

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Sewage, waste, environment
Business, legal, advisory
13
Repair & maintenance
Other
0
0
Construction works
Financial, insurance
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.

Arts University Bournemouth 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%
8
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
24
Distinct suppliers
6%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
18%
Local suppliers (BH postcodes)
2 of 11 with known office
4%
Value to local suppliers
£1.6m of £42.9m
46%
Postcode coverage
11 of 24 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the BH 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
UKK24
Contact
Okechukwu Umeokafor
Email
procurement@aub.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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