Spend profile

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

£4.4m
12 m spend
£4.0m
Prior 12 m
+10%
YoY change
£124k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
University of Bath — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£1.1m£2.2m£3.3m£4.4mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

10

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

2

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified741 · £252.9m
services59 · £28.1m
goods24 · £3.3m
works7 · £3.0m

Instrument type

contract831 · £287.3m
Source:Contracts Finder: 728Find a Tender: 103

Awarded contracts · 36 live

All contracts with a published award notice where University of Bath 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
BO
1 contract · 12 Apr
£44.7m
2
RC
2 contracts · 18 May03 Jun
£32.8m
3
VC
1 contract · 30 Jan
£27.5m
4
JW
1 contract · 17 Jul
£20.5m
5
AU
1 contract · 21 Dec
£17.3m
6
WC
1 contract · 10 Oct
£6.3m
7
AS
1 contract · 26 Jul
£6.0m
8
DL
4 contracts · 02 Mar19 May
£5.8m
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373 other suppliers
long tail · 99 SMEs
£190.1m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
228 contracts
£636.9m
73%
Construction works
79 contracts
£152.5m
18%
Laboratory, scientific
32 contracts
£22.4m
3%
Education, training
32 contracts
£20.8m
2%
Other
50 contracts
£15.4m
2%
IT services, software
18 contracts
£7.7m
1%
Repair & maintenance
12 contracts
£5.8m
1%
Electrical machinery
3 contracts
£5.6m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

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Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
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Jul
Business, legal, advisory
Construction works
Laboratory, scientific
Education, training
Other
4
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0
IT services, software
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.

University of Bath 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.

33%
SME supplier share
target 33%
188
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
381
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
UKK12
Contact
Louise Rudall
Email
lmr39@bath.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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