Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£29.5m
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£66k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£2.5m£4.9m£7.4m£9.8mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

5

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
13 recorded contracts worth £2.4m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified886 · £192.2m
services68 · £103.2m
goods43 · £7.1m
works3 · £1.0m

Instrument type

contract978 · £290.0m
call off22 · £13.5m
Source:Contracts Finder: 806Find a Tender: 194

Awarded contracts · 40 live

All contracts with a published award notice where THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM 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
PP
1 contract · 02 Oct
£24.0m
2
FG
1 contract · 01 Sept
£21.6m
3
GC
18 contracts · SME · 02 Feb05 Nov
£8.5m
4
LL
2 contracts · SME · 24 Sept20 Dec
£7.6m
5
WE
1 contract · 24 Sept
£7.5m
6
AA
2 contracts · SME · 13 Dec27 Jan
£6.6m
7
LT
4 contracts · 26 Apr17 Nov
£6.2m
8
CC
15 contracts · SME · 03 Apr20 Jan
£5.4m
9519
···
511 other suppliers
long tail · 294 SMEs
£117.3m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
126 contracts
£51.7m
21%
Architecture, engineering
58 contracts
£37.2m
15%
Construction works
73 contracts
£31.9m
13%
Software packages, IT
62 contracts
£31.9m
13%
Office equipment, IT
26 contracts
£27.7m
11%
Hotel, restaurant, retail
8 contracts
£25.1m
10%
Sewage, waste, environment
23 contracts
£24.8m
10%
Laboratory, scientific
201 contracts
£20.7m
8%

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.

THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM 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.

56%
SME supplier share
target 33%
498
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
519
Distinct suppliers
41%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
14%
Local suppliers (B postcodes)
22 of 157 with known office
16%
Value to local suppliers
£23.0m of £146.5m
30%
Postcode coverage
157 of 519 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the B 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
UKG31
Companies House
RC000645
Contact
Callum Raymond
Email
procurement@bham.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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