Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£21.2m
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£200k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Manchester Metropolitan University — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£3.6m£7.2m£11m£14mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

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
15 recorded contracts worth £13.9m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services22 · £154.8m
Unspecified238 · £132.9m
goods21 · £22.9m
works2 · £2.0m

Instrument type

contract282 · £312.6m
call off1 · £0
Source:Contracts Finder: 238Find a Tender: 45

Awarded contracts · 22 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Manchester Metropolitan 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
KC
1 contract · 19 Dec
£17.1m
2
SP
15 contracts · 27 Jul04 Mar
£16.1m
3
RA
3 contracts · 13 Jun01 Aug
£13.4m
4
DT
2 contracts · 13 Jan03 Aug
£12.0m
5
DL
1 contract · 10 Sept
£7.9m
6
OU
1 contract · 25 Jul
£5.8m
7
VE
2 contracts · 14 Jul24 Nov
£5.7m
8
GL
1 contract · 20 Sept
£4.9m
9171
···
163 other suppliers
long tail · 28 SMEs
£59.0m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Education, training
9 contracts
£151.9m
51%
Radio, TV, communications
15 contracts
£28.5m
10%
Construction works
14 contracts
£26.7m
9%
Software packages, IT
31 contracts
£19.6m
7%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
2 contracts
£19.2m
6%
Office equipment, IT
12 contracts
£18.4m
6%
Business, legal, advisory
55 contracts
£16.2m
5%
IT services, software
17 contracts
£15.9m
5%

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.

Manchester Metropolitan 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.

18%
SME supplier share
target 33%
40
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
171
Distinct suppliers
10%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
6%
Local suppliers (M postcodes)
4 of 62 with known office
21%
Value to local suppliers
£18.3m of £88.4m
36%
Postcode coverage
62 of 171 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the M 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 18% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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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
UKD33
Contact
Stacey Anderton
Email
procurement@mmu.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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