Spend profile

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

£277.0m
12 m spend
£301.4m
Prior 12 m
-8%
YoY change
£15.0m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£55m£110m£165m£220mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

45

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

3

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

goods127 · £2.6bn
Unspecified86 · £2.0bn
services50 · £377.0m
works5 · £26.0m

Instrument type

contract252 · £4.6bn
call off16 · £457.7m
Source:Find a Tender: 183Contracts Finder: 85

Awarded contracts · 122 live

All contracts with a published award notice where North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
44812220£8.0mest.active
79710000£20.0mest.active
31523200£5.0mest.planned
90650000£5.0mest.planned
31120000£30.0mest.planned
30237110£80.0mest.planned
33696500£250.0mest.planned
44812220£8.0mest.active
79710000£20.0mest.active
79710000£20.0mest.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
GD
2 contracts · SME
£250.0mest.
2
KA
2 contracts · SME
£250.0mest.
3
MU
4 contracts · SME
£186.8mest.
4
RE
4 contracts · 21 Oct23 Dec
£178.4mest.
5
RU
14 contracts · 14 Jul16 May
£171.9mest.
6
WL
£169.6mest.
7
ZL
4 contracts · SME
£169.6mest.
8
HU
4 contracts · SME
£168.5mest.
9548
···
540 other suppliers
long tail · 198 SMEs
£8.0bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Medical, pharmaceutical
124 contracts
£17.4bn
44%
Laboratory, scientific
36 contracts
£6.7bn
17%
Electrical machinery
148 contracts
£5.5bn
14%
Transport equipment, vehicles
21 contracts
£3.8bn
10%
Furniture, cleaning
179 contracts
£2.0bn
5%
IT services, software
17 contracts
£1.6bn
4%
Printed matter
30 contracts
£1.5bn
4%
Office equipment, IT
29 contracts
£1.4bn
4%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
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Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Medical, pharmaceutical
Laboratory, scientific
Electrical machinery
Transport equipment, vehicles
Furniture, cleaning
18
IT services, software
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.

47%
SME supplier share
target 33%
492
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
548
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
UK
Companies House
04045190
Contact
Dominique Deveroux
Email
Dominique.deveroux@nwupc.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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