Spend profile

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

£371k
12 m spend
£458k
Prior 12 m
-19%
YoY change
£76k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Solent University Southampton — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£275k£550k£825k£1.1mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

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
9 recorded contracts worth £4.2m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified219 · £83.3m
services12 · £29.2m
goods15 · £1.0m

Instrument type

contract239 · £107.4m
call off7 · £6.1m
Source:Contracts Finder: 187Find a Tender: 59

Awarded contracts · 17 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Solent University Southampton 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
SR
£17.0mest.
2
HS
2 contracts · SME · 01 Jan
£15.0mest.
3
PC
1 contract · SME · 11 Sept
£6.4m
4
RT
1 contract · SME · 11 Sept
£6.4m
5
1A
1 contract · SME · 11 Sept
£6.4m
6
MH
1 contract · SME · 11 Sept
£6.4m
7
ER
1 contract · SME · 11 Sept
£6.4m
8
CC
1 contract · SME · 11 Sept
£6.4m
9176
···
168 other suppliers
long tail · 99 SMEs
£40.1m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Transport services
7 contracts
£45.0m
43%
Sewage, waste, environment
4 contracts
£32.0m
31%
Transport equipment, vehicles
5 contracts
£6.5m
6%
Construction works
12 contracts
£5.8m
6%
Business, legal, advisory
29 contracts
£5.2m
5%
Education, training
8 contracts
£3.8m
4%
Software packages, IT
23 contracts
£3.4m
3%
Other
40 contracts
£2.6m
2%

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.

Solent University Southampton 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.

59%
SME supplier share
target 33%
127
SME award rows
23
VCSE award rows
176
Distinct suppliers
73%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
6%
Local suppliers (SO postcodes)
5 of 78 with known office
4%
Value to local suppliers
£1.9m of £48.2m
44%
Postcode coverage
78 of 176 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the SO 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.

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
UKJ32
Email
engagement@solent.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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