Spend profile

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

£478.2m
12 m spend
£844.7m
Prior 12 m
-43%
YoY change
£326k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Department for Education — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£83m£166m£249m£332mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

97

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

2

£301.4m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

goods22 · £3.5bn
Unspecified807 · £2.5bn
services167 · £1.5bn
works4 · £171.0m

Instrument type

contract940 · £7.3bn
call off60 · £415.5m
Source:Contracts Finder: 691Find a Tender: 309

Awarded contracts · 145 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Department for Education 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
W6
1 contract · 22 Apr
£300.0m
2
BA
23 contracts · 02 Jul29 Aug
£263.1m
3
PE
4 contracts · 16 Mar08 Dec
£131.9m
4
BC
10 contracts · 12 Jul24 Jun
£99.7m
5
TD
14 contracts · 06 Oct27 Jun
£96.9m
6
CL
3 contracts · 11 Nov26 Feb
£91.4m
7
MG
1 contract · 31 Jan
£90.7m
8
GT
7 contracts · 01 Dec25 Mar
£88.6m
9636
···
628 other suppliers
long tail · 176 SMEs
£1.3bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Software packages, IT
41 contracts
£2.4bn
33%
Education, training
411 contracts
£1.5bn
21%
Office equipment, IT
10 contracts
£1.0bn
14%
Construction works
77 contracts
£924.8m
13%
Other
154 contracts
£599.6m
8%
IT services, software
82 contracts
£399.0m
5%
Business, legal, advisory
79 contracts
£256.8m
4%
R&D services
62 contracts
£156.1m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Software packages, IT
0
0
1
Education, training
1
0
0
Office equipment, IT
Construction works
9
15
17
Other
47
0
1
6
45
300
IT services, software
19
0
6
0
0
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 · 4 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 4 notices 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%
243
SME award rows
29
VCSE award rows
636
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 26% 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
UK
Companies House
00867944
Contact
robert.alexander@education.gov.uk
Email
commercial.ddat@education.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.

Resources

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