Spend profile

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

£5.1m
12 m spend
£7.0m
Prior 12 m
-27%
YoY change
£58k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
University of Bedfordshire — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£1.2m£2.4m£3.5m£4.7mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

6

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

5

£516k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified318 · £67.0m
services67 · £27.5m
works10 · £5.7m
goods22 · £2.3m

Instrument type

contract308 · £60.9m
call off109 · £41.6m
Source:Contracts Finder: 279Find a Tender: 138

Awarded contracts · 52 live

All contracts with a published award notice where University of Bedfordshire 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
RC
3 contracts · SME · 07 Nov02 May
£24.6m
2
SS
£8.5m
3
CC
2 contracts · SME · 28 Apr
£6.5mest.
4
BL
2 contracts · 09 Nov
£5.0m
5
CC
2 contracts · SME · 21 Jul
£1.5m
6
UB
2 contracts · SME · 26 Aug
£1.5m
7
BA
1 contract · 21 Jan
£1.3m
8
KM
2 contracts · SME
£1.3mest.
9209
···
201 other suppliers
long tail · 139 SMEs
£24.9m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
45 contracts
£32.4m
37%
Hotel, restaurant, retail
6 contracts
£13.8m
16%
Business, legal, advisory
38 contracts
£12.6m
14%
Electrical machinery
6 contracts
£11.5m
13%
Software packages, IT
44 contracts
£7.1m
8%
Other
60 contracts
£7.0m
8%
Health & social work
3 contracts
£1.9m
2%
Industrial machinery
5 contracts
£1.9m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

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Hotel, restaurant, retail
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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.

University of Bedfordshire 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.

67%
SME supplier share
target 33%
218
SME award rows
18
VCSE award rows
209
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKH21
Contact
Raymond Coffie
Email
Procurement@beds.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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