Spend profile

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

£26.8m
12 m spend
£51.9m
Prior 12 m
-48%
YoY change
£142k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
ASTON UNIVERSITY — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£5.5m£11m£16m£22mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

9

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

17

£8.7m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
38 recorded contracts worth £14.8m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified559 · £423.6m
services54 · £28.4m
goods46 · £7.3m
works5 · £0

Instrument type

contract627 · £452.3m
call off37 · £7.0m
Source:Contracts Finder: 473Find a Tender: 191

Awarded contracts · 122 live

All contracts with a published award notice where ASTON 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
OE
£230.0m
2
BD
£37.5m
3
PL
2 contracts · 27 Sept
£17.0m
4
MF
5 contracts · SME · 30 Jul13 May
£11.3mest.
5
CC
2 contracts · SME · 05 Apr22 Feb
£11.0m
6
RP
10 contracts · 01 May04 Aug
£9.9mest.
7
GN
4 contracts · SME · 02 Jul18 Mar
£9.2mest.
8
BM
5 contracts · SME · 02 Jul18 Mar
£9.1mest.
9355
···
347 other suppliers
long tail · 217 SMEs
£197.8m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Education, training
7 contracts
£230.5m
45%
Architecture, engineering
67 contracts
£136.2m
26%
Other
135 contracts
£45.4m
9%
Construction works
27 contracts
£31.3m
6%
Business, legal, advisory
58 contracts
£23.8m
5%
Radio, TV, communications
4 contracts
£19.0m
4%
Repair & maintenance
8 contracts
£16.2m
3%
Laboratory, scientific
99 contracts
£15.2m
3%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Education, training
Architecture, engineering
0
Other
0
0
0
Construction works
1
7
1
Business, legal, advisory
3
Radio, TV, communications
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.

ASTON 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.

62%
SME supplier share
target 33%
333
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
355
Distinct suppliers
32%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
7%
Local suppliers (B postcodes)
11 of 156 with known office
6%
Value to local suppliers
£26.9m of £475.7m
44%
Postcode coverage
156 of 355 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the B 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.

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
UKG31
Companies House
RC000904
Contact
Sabrina Jagpal
Email
procurement@aston.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.

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