Spend profile

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

£432.1m
12 m spend
£11.1m
Prior 12 m
+3779%
YoY change
£3.0m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
the Education Authority — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£54m£108m£162m£216mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

145

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

9

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

25

£42.0m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services347 · £2.2bn
works249 · £823.1m
goods336 · £775.6m
Unspecified68 · £116.1m

Instrument type

contract1000 · £3.9bn
Source:Find a Tender: 979Contracts Finder: 21

Awarded contracts · 103 live

All contracts with a published award notice where the Education Authority 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
SC
28 contracts · SME · 09 Aug18 Feb
£444.1mest.
2
HF
11 contracts · 27 Oct
£205.7mest.
3
SF
£179.0mest.
4
GL
15 contracts · SME
£160.0mest.
5
GH
8 contracts · SME
£124.3mest.
6
WC
£85.9mest.
7
MF
19 contracts · SME
£80.3mest.
8
MN
1 contract · SME
£80.0mest.
9494
···
486 other suppliers
long tail · 381 SMEs
£1.6bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Furniture, cleaning
123 contracts
£1.5bn
21%
Construction works
70 contracts
£1.2bn
17%
Food, beverages, tobacco
57 contracts
£1.0bn
15%
Other
410 contracts
£946.8m
13%
IT services, software
28 contracts
£727.5m
10%
Medical, pharmaceutical
71 contracts
£641.5m
9%
Musical instruments, sport
39 contracts
£547.0m
8%
Software packages, IT
12 contracts
£543.7m
8%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Furniture, cleaning
Construction works
Food, beverages, tobacco
Other
22
197
1
165
3
2
42
IT services, software
Medical, pharmaceutical
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.

79%
SME supplier share
target 33%
813
SME award rows
2
VCSE award rows
494
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
UKN06
Contact
catering.procure@eani.org.uk
Email
educationresource.procure@eani.org.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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