Quick answer — Belfast Metropolitan CollegeLast refreshed 31 Mar 2026

At a glance

Belfast Metropolitan College has awarded £152.9m across 61 suppliers, with 160 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 49% · 23 open notices now · 1 award in last 90 d (£500k) · SME share 63% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration49%
Modifications · 90 d1
SME spend share63%
Pipeline · open now23
Awards · 90 d1

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Belfast Metropolitan College is a contracting authority, based in UKN06. Tracks 54 published notices and 82 awards on PublicSupply.

54
Notices published
82
Awards
61
Suppliers engaged
2020
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£650k
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£1.8m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Belfast Metropolitan College — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

23

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£500k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services23 · £96.7m
goods24 · £50.1m
works2 · £41.2m
Unspecified5 · £4.9m

Instrument type

contract54 · £192.9m
Source:Find a Tender: 53Contracts Finder: 1

Awarded contracts · 160 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Belfast Metropolitan College is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
ID 5828520 DfE - FE BMC - IT Security ServicesVM Forensics Limited£500kest.active
ID 5828520 DfE - FE BMC - IT Security servicesVM Forensics Limited£500k31 Mar 2026pending
FE Colleges Property Management Framework 202645210000£41.2mest.active
ID 5831917 - DfE - The Provision of Catering and Vending Services To Belfast Metropolitan CollegeCATER LINK LIMITED£1.6mest.active
ID 5321594 - DfE - NWRC - Supply and Delivery of Specialist Grocery Items for N.I. FE/HE CollegesHENDERSON FOODSERVICE LTD15100000£750kest.active
ID 5321594 - DfE - NWRC - Supply and Delivery of Specialist Grocery Items for N.I. FE/HE CollegesHENDERSON FOODSERVICE LTD15100000£750kest.active
ID 5321594 - DfE - NWRC - Supply and Delivery of Specialist Grocery Items for N.I. FE/HE CollegesHENDERSON FOODSERVICE LTD15100000£750kest.active
ID 5831917 - DfE - The Provision of Catering and Vending Services To Belfast Metropolitan CollegeCATER LINK LIMITED£150k23 Jun 2025active
ID 5221531 - DfE - SRC - Plumbing Supplies for the Northern Ireland FE CollegesBASSETTS WOLSELEY LTD44115210£863kest.active
ID 5221531 - DfE - SRC - Plumbing Supplies for the Northern Ireland FE CollegesHALDANE FISHER LTD44115210£863kest.active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
WT
1 contract · SME
£75.0mest.
49% of total
2
LF
£6.9mest.
5% of total
3
EY
6 contracts
£6.8mest.
4% of total
4
KM
6 contracts · SME
£6.6mest.
4% of total
5
MB
£5.8mest.
4% of total
6
HC
£4.5mest.
3% of total
7
RS
1 contract · 24 Nov
£4.3m
3% of total
8
GN
£4.2mest.
3% of total
961
···
53 other suppliers
long tail · 37 SMEs
£38.8m
25% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
53 contracts
£98.4m
34%
Support transport services
1 contract
£75.0m
26%
Printed matter
44 contracts
£41.6m
14%
Construction works
7 contracts
£41.2m
14%
Food, beverages, tobacco
15 contracts
£11.4m
4%
Health & social work
2 contracts
£11.2m
4%
Construction materials
12 contracts
£8.2m
3%
Mining, metals
6 contracts
£6.6m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Business, legal, advisory
Support transport services
Printed matter
Construction works
Food, beverages, tobacco
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 · 1 in 90 d

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

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 1 notice tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

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.

63%
SME supplier share
target 33%
99
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
61
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKN06
Contact
SSDAdmin.CPDfinance-ni.gov.uk
Email
cpdclientcdpinfo@finance-ni.gov.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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