Quick answer — NORTH WESTERN UNIVERSITIES PURCHASING CONSORTIUM LIMITEDLast refreshed 20 Mar 2020

At a glance

NORTH WESTERN UNIVERSITIES PURCHASING CONSORTIUM LIMITED has awarded £492.1m across 145 suppliers, with 2 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 4% · 0 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 71% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration4%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share71%
Pipeline · open now0
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

NORTH WESTERN UNIVERSITIES PURCHASING CONSORTIUM LIMITED is a contracting authority, based in United Kingdom. Tracks 30 published notices and 30 awards on PublicSupply.

30
Notices published
30
Awards
145
Suppliers engaged
2016
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£2.6m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
NORTH WESTERN UNIVERSITIES PURCHASING CONSORTIUM LIMITED — 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

Unspecified30 · £492.1m

Instrument type

call off16 · £457.7m
contract14 · £34.4m
Source:Contracts Finder: 30

Awarded contracts · 2 live

All contracts with a published award notice where NORTH WESTERN UNIVERSITIES PURCHASING CONSORTIUM LIMITED is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Financial ServicesErnst & Young LLP66600000£21.4m26 Jul 2019active
Financial ServicesTIAA Ltd66600000£21.4m26 Jul 2019active
Financial ServicesKPMG LLP66600000£21.4m26 Jul 2019active
Financial ServicesDeloitte LLP66600000£21.4m26 Jul 2019active
Financial ServicesMazars LLP66600000£21.4m26 Jul 2019active
Financial ServicesUniac66600000£21.4m26 Jul 2019active
Financial ServicesGrant Thornton UK LLP66600000£21.4m26 Jul 2019active
Cleaning and Janitorial SuppliesWray Bros19640000£1.2m20 Mar 2020active
Cleaning and Janitorial SuppliesBunzl UK Ltd19640000£1.2m20 Mar 2020active
Cleaning and Janitorial SuppliesVertella Ltd19640000£1.2m20 Mar 2020active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
EY
2 contracts · SME · 20 Sept26 Jul
£21.4m
4% of total
2
TL
1 contract · SME · 26 Jul
£21.4m
4% of total
3
KL
2 contracts · SME · 20 Sept26 Jul
£21.4m
4% of total
4
DL
1 contract · SME · 26 Jul
£21.4m
4% of total
5
ML
1 contract · SME · 26 Jul
£21.4m
4% of total
6
UN
1 contract · SME · 26 Jul
£21.4m
4% of total
7
GT
1 contract · SME · 26 Jul
£21.4m
4% of total
8
EE
2 contracts · SME · 29 Jan23 Dec
£10.6m
2% of total
9145
···
137 other suppliers
long tail · 99 SMEs
£331.5m
67% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Financial, insurance
7 contracts
£150.0m
30%
Radio, TV, communications
23 contracts
£119.0m
24%
Electrical machinery
32 contracts
£87.0m
18%
Furniture, cleaning
36 contracts
£83.1m
17%
Repair & maintenance
8 contracts
£21.0m
4%
Leather, textiles
10 contracts
£12.0m
2%
Industrial machinery
7 contracts
£10.0m
2%
Architecture, engineering
17 contracts
£10.0m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Financial, insurance
Radio, TV, communications
Electrical machinery
Furniture, cleaning
Repair & maintenance
Leather, textiles
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 · 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.

NORTH WESTERN UNIVERSITIES PURCHASING CONSORTIUM LIMITED 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.

71%
SME supplier share
target 33%
114
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
145
Distinct suppliers

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

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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