Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£761k
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£144k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Durham University — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£275k£550k£825k£1.1mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

1

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified189 · £210.7m
goods13 · £2.0m
services33 · £487k
works1 · £0

Instrument type

call off48 · £193.3m
contract188 · £19.9m
Source:Contracts Finder: 189Find a Tender: 47

Awarded contracts · 2 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Durham 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
ML
1 contract · 19 Mar
£15.0m
2
EC
1 contract · 22 Dec
£13.5m
3
WD
£13.5m
4
KS
1 contract · 22 Dec
£13.5m
5
SC
1 contract · 22 Dec
£13.5m
6
WT
£13.5m
7
IC
1 contract · 22 Dec
£13.5m
8
HF
1 contract · 22 Dec
£13.5m
9209
···
201 other suppliers
long tail · 84 SMEs
£101.7m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
15 contracts
£148.1m
74%
Business, legal, advisory
52 contracts
£27.0m
13%
Laboratory, scientific
34 contracts
£7.4m
4%
Office equipment, IT
7 contracts
£4.6m
2%
Food, beverages, tobacco
5 contracts
£4.4m
2%
Agriculture, farming
2 contracts
£4.3m
2%
Financial, insurance
3 contracts
£2.5m
1%
Furniture, cleaning
5 contracts
£2.1m
1%

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.

Durham 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.

38%
SME supplier share
target 33%
92
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
209
Distinct suppliers

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
UKC14
Companies House
RC000650
Contact
Rachael Devlin
Email
rachael.devlin@durham.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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