Spend profile

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

£28.5m
12 m spend
£24.8m
Prior 12 m
+15%
YoY change
£62k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
OFFICE FOR STANDARDS IN EDUCATION, CHILDRENS SERVICES AND SKILLS — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£5.6m£11m£17m£22mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

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)

4

£1.1m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified101 · £56.0m
services4 · £1.7m

Instrument type

contract104 · £56.8m
call off1 · £836k
Source:Contracts Finder: 101Find a Tender: 4

Awarded contracts · 37 live

All contracts with a published award notice where OFFICE FOR STANDARDS IN EDUCATION, CHILDRENS SERVICES AND SKILLS 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
CL
1 contract · 27 Feb
£11.7m
2
CI
3 contracts · 15 May04 Feb
£10.6m
3
CF
£10.0m
4
AM
1 contract · 10 Dec
£6.7m
5
VL
1 contract · 11 Sept
£4.2m
6
ER
£2.0m
7
CU
1 contract
£1.7mest.
8
XL
5 contracts · 31 Oct17 Feb
£1.3m
964
···
56 other suppliers
long tail · 32 SMEs
£9.5m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
18 contracts
£37.9m
66%
Business, legal, advisory
51 contracts
£10.1m
18%
Software packages, IT
15 contracts
£3.4m
6%
Transport equipment, vehicles
1 contract
£2.0m
3%
Office equipment, IT
7 contracts
£1.9m
3%
Furniture, cleaning
1 contract
£874k
2%
Printed matter
1 contract
£836k
1%
R&D services
2 contracts
£190k
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
IT services, software
4
1
0
0
20
0
Business, legal, advisory
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Software packages, IT
0
0
Transport equipment, vehicles
Office equipment, IT
0
0
0
1
Furniture, cleaning
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.

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.

OFFICE FOR STANDARDS IN EDUCATION, CHILDRENS SERVICES AND SKILLS 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.

46%
SME supplier share
target 33%
46
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
64
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
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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