Quick answer — Skills Funding AgencyLast refreshed 28 May 2021

At a glance

Skills Funding Agency has awarded £446.5m across 157 suppliers, with 4 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 10% · 0 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 12% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration10%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share12%
Pipeline · open now0
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Skills Funding Agency is a contracting authority, based in United Kingdom. Tracks 175 published notices and 175 awards on PublicSupply.

175
Notices published
175
Awards
157
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
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Prior 12 m
YoY change
£1.0m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Skills Funding Agency — 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

Unspecified175 · £446.5m

Instrument type

call off133 · £414.4m
contract42 · £32.1m
Source:Contracts Finder: 175

Awarded contracts · 4 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Skills Funding Agency is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Standards & Testing Agency - Technical Advisory Group80100000£0active
STA-0325 Educational Psychologist Resource80000000£0active
STA-0326 Inclusion Experts Framework 2024 - 202680000000£0active
STA-0323 - Braille Quality Assurance Framework 2024 - 202680000000£0active
SCHOOL LEADER TRAINING IN IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE FLEXIBLE WORKING PRACTICESTimewise Limited80000000£57k28 May 2021active
Flexible Working Ambassador SchoolsImpington Village College80000000£60k26 Feb 2021active
Flexible Working Ambassador SchoolsMalmesbury School80000000£60k26 Feb 2021active
Flexible Working Ambassador SchoolsNewport Girls' High School Academy Trust80000000£60k26 Feb 2021active
Flexible Working Ambassador SchoolsDiscovery Trust80000000£60k26 Feb 2021active
Flexible Working Ambassador SchoolsGreater Manchester Learning Trust80000000£60k26 Feb 2021active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
LL
18 contracts · 05 May05 Dec
£46.3m
10% of total
2
CC
8 contracts · 29 Sept11 Nov
£34.7m
8% of total
3
SL
11 contracts · 26 Sept04 Dec
£30.1m
7% of total
4
PS
9 contracts · 26 May17 Nov
£19.1m
4% of total
5
SB
4 contracts · 01 Jun06 Oct
£18.0m
4% of total
6
ES
6 contracts · 03 Oct02 Dec
£17.6m
4% of total
7
ST
6 contracts · 19 Aug14 Nov
£16.7m
4% of total
8
ES
2 contracts · 06 Jun24 Nov
£15.2m
3% of total
9157
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149 other suppliers
long tail · 23 SMEs
£248.8m
56% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Education, training
267 contracts
£436.4m
98%
Other community services
6 contracts
£7.9m
2%
Business, legal, advisory
2 contracts
£2.1m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

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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.

Skills Funding Agency 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.

12%
SME supplier share
target 33%
31
SME award rows
10
VCSE award rows
157
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 12% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

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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