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
£100.0m
Median award

No awards recorded in the last 24 months.

Last recorded award: 07 Feb 2023. Lifetime totals remain available below.

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

15

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

goods64 · £7.5bn
services28 · £1.8bn
Unspecified20 · £1.2bn
works2 · £6.0m

Instrument type

contract113 · £10.5bn
call off1 · £0
Source:Find a Tender: 94Contracts Finder: 20

Awarded contracts · 2 live

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

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Morgan Hunt79000000£200.0mest.active
Step Ahead Social Enterprise CIC 79000000£200.0mest.active
Blue Arrow Limited79000000£200.0mest.active
Brook Street Ltd79000000£200.0mest.active
The Sammons Recruitment Group 79000000£200.0mest.active
Prospectus Ltd 79000000£200.0mest.active
Manpower UK Limited 79000000£200.0mest.active
Michael Page International Recruitment Ltd79000000£200.0mest.active
Search Consultancy Ltd 79000000£200.0mest.active
Service Care Solutions 79000000£200.0mest.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
PL
2 contracts
£810.0mest.
2
NT
£800.0mest.
3
EI
£572.5mest.
4
LS
£540.0mest.
5
CL
2 contracts
£512.5mest.
6
SP
2 contracts
£512.5mest.
7
XL
2 contracts
£512.5mest.
8
DC
£500.0mest.
9334
···
326 other suppliers
long tail · 167 SMEs
£19.0bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Office equipment, IT
49 contracts
£21.8bn
29%
Printed matter
40 contracts
£16.0bn
22%
Business, legal, advisory
102 contracts
£14.3bn
19%
Radio, TV, communications
17 contracts
£7.7bn
10%
Clothing, footwear
37 contracts
£6.6bn
9%
Support transport services
5 contracts
£4.0bn
5%
Software packages, IT
4 contracts
£1.9bn
3%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
18 contracts
£1.6bn
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.

Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium 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.

53%
SME supplier share
target 33%
229
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
334
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
Contact
Mark Lewis
Email
supc@sums.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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