Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£16k
Median award

No awards recorded in the last 24 months.

Last recorded award: 17 Sept 2025. Lifetime totals remain available below.

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
3 recorded contracts worth £0 end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

goods1 · £645.0m
Unspecified42 · £4.4m
services4 · £2.7m

Instrument type

contract47 · £652.1m
Source:Contracts Finder: 40Find a Tender: 7

Awarded contracts · 10 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Colchester Institute 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
AL
2 contracts · 13 May
£2.8mest.
2
WC
1 contract · 05 Jan
£1.3m
3
RC
1 contract · 18 Feb
£1.3m
4
FP
1 contract · 13 May
£270k
5
AP
2 contracts · 11 Mar03 Sept
£265k
6
ST
2 contracts · 14 Dec20 Nov
£216k
7
TR
1 contract · 11 Mar
£208k
8
BI
1 contract · 20 Aug
£140k
945
···
37 other suppliers
long tail · 2 SMEs
£575k

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Petroleum, fuel, energy
1 contract
£645.0m
99%
Hotel, restaurant, retail
2 contracts
£2.8m
0%
Sewage, waste, environment
4 contracts
£2.6m
0%
Food, beverages, tobacco
5 contracts
£612k
0%
Office equipment, IT
6 contracts
£283k
0%
Financial, insurance
1 contract
£270k
0%
Business, legal, advisory
20 contracts
£147k
0%
Agriculture, forestry services
2 contracts
£80k
0%

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.

Colchester Institute 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.

4%
SME supplier share
target 33%
2
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
45
Distinct suppliers
0%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
12%
Local suppliers (CO postcodes)
2 of 17 with known office
6%
Value to local suppliers
£281k of £4.9m
38%
Postcode coverage
17 of 45 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the CO 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 4% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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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
UKH34
Email
procurement.team@colchester.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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