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Quick answer — Further Education CollegesLast refreshed 28 May 2020

At a glance

Further Education Colleges has awarded £5.8m across 71 suppliers.

Why: Top supplier share 56% · 0 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 0% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration56%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share0%
Pipeline · open now0
Awards · 90 d0
Supplier?PipelineTop suppliersCategories boughtWatchdog?ModificationsFOIA & transparencySME share

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Further Education Colleges is a contracting authority, based in United Kingdom. Tracks 222 published notices and 222 awards on PublicSupply.

222
Notices published
222
Awards
71
Suppliers engaged
2015
First award on file

Spend profile

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

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12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
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YoY change
£52k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Further Education Colleges — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

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

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified222 · £5.8m

Instrument type

contract222 · £5.8m
Source:Contracts Finder: 222

Awarded contracts · 0 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Further Education Colleges is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Chromebooks and associated goods and services - AWARDC-Learning Limited30200000£028 May 2020active
Provision of Core Catering Services to Derby College Group - AWARDCaterlink55000000£017 Apr 2020active
Chromebooks and associated goods and services—30200000£0—active
Building contractor - AWARDWorkspace Design and Build Limited45214500£031 Oct 2019active
Luminate Education Group - Mobile Telephone Communication Services 3 Year Preferred Supplier - AWARDIntouch Advance Ltd32250000£027 Mar 2020active
Luminate Education Group (Leeds, Keighley and Harrogate Colleges) - Fall Protection and Lightning Protecion Tests - AWARDDeltaReach31216100£016 Mar 2020active
Luminate Education Group (Leeds, Keighley and Harrogate Colleges) - Fall Protection and Lightning Protecion Tests - AWARDHighwire Testing Services Ltd31216100£016 Mar 2020active
Luminate Education Group - Legal Services Provisions - Employment / Property / Commercial—79100000£0—active
Luminate Education Group - Mobile Telephone Communication Services 3 Year Preferred Supplier—32250000£0—active
Luminate Education Group (Leeds, Keighley and Harrogate Colleges) - Fall Protection and Lightning Protecion Tests—31216100£0—active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
JB
Johnson Bros Tours Ltd T/A Redfern Travel
1 contract · 01 Aug
£3.3m
56% of total
—
2
ND
Notts + Derby Buses
1 contract · 07 Jun
£718k
12% of total
—
3
CB
Code Building Solutions
1 contract · 15 Jul
£640k
11% of total
—
4
KM
Konica Minolta Business Solutions (East) Ltd
1 contract · 02 Mar
£436k
8% of total
—
5
SL
Sigma (Leeds) Ltd.
2 contracts · 28 Aug
£258k
4% of total
—
6
CT
CAE Technology Services
1 contract · 31 Jul
£165k
3% of total
—
7
EL
Enterprise4all (North West) Limited
3 contracts · 28 Feb – 17 Aug
£76k
1% of total
—
8
OS
Orion Security Solutions Ltd
1 contract · 10 Jul
£53k
1% of total
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9–71
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63 other suppliers
long tail · 0 SMEs
£189k
3% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Transport services
8 contracts
£4.0m
69%
Construction works
19 contracts
£915k
16%
Business, legal, advisory
24 contracts
£436k
8%
Office equipment, IT
13 contracts
£165k
3%
Education, training
52 contracts
£150k
3%
Electrical machinery
7 contracts
£53k
1%
IT services, software
7 contracts
£44k
1%
Health & social work
9 contracts
£33k
1%

Activity heatmap

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

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Transport services
Construction works
Business, legal, advisory
Office equipment, IT
Education, training
Electrical machinery
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

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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.

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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.

Further Education Colleges has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

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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.

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SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

0%
SME supplier share
target 33%
0
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
71
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 0% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
United Kingdom

Board & accountable officers

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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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