Spend profile

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

£4.7m
12 m spend
£4.9m
Prior 12 m
-5%
YoY change
£321k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Birmingham City University — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£1.3m£2.6m£3.9m£5.2mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

4

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

3

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

3

£4.7m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
2 recorded contracts worth £2.5m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified158 · £81.1m
services49 · £45.0m
goods19 · £1.5m
works2 · £0

Instrument type

contract219 · £104.5m
call off9 · £23.2m
Source:Contracts Finder: 153Find a Tender: 75

Awarded contracts · 10 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Birmingham City 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
UO
3 contracts · SME · 28 May07 Jul
£9.7mest.
2
AL
3 contracts · 30 Jun
£9.0m
3
OC
2 contracts · 29 Sept26 May
£5.0m
4
SC
2 contracts · 31 Mar09 May
£4.4m
5
OL
3 contracts · SME · 07 Jul
£4.1m
6
DS
1 contract · SME · 12 Jul
£4.0m
7
VC
1 contract · SME · 12 Jul
£4.0m
8
CO
£4.0m
975
···
67 other suppliers
long tail · 15 SMEs
£28.9m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
15 contracts
£53.7m
48%
Other
20 contracts
£14.1m
13%
Education, training
8 contracts
£11.3m
10%
Radio, TV, communications
3 contracts
£10.6m
10%
Software packages, IT
9 contracts
£6.3m
6%
IT services, software
7 contracts
£6.1m
5%
Office equipment, IT
7 contracts
£4.8m
4%
Health & social work
3 contracts
£4.1m
4%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Business, legal, advisory
Other
5
Education, training
Radio, TV, communications
Software packages, IT
IT services, software
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.

26%
SME supplier share
target 33%
24
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
75
Distinct suppliers
42%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
3%
Local suppliers (B postcodes)
1 of 32 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£0 of £34.7m
43%
Postcode coverage
32 of 75 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.
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 26% 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
UKG31
Contact
Tina Lewis
Email
Tina.lewis@bcu.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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