Spend profile

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

£58.3m
12 m spend
£7.6m
Prior 12 m
+672%
YoY change
£193k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£8.9m£18m£27m£36mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

40

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

15

£32.9m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
32 recorded contracts worth £19.1m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

works4 · £264.0m
services152 · £247.7m
goods112 · £176.6m
Unspecified732 · £132.8m

Instrument type

contract989 · £813.6m
call off11 · £7.6m
Source:Find a Tender: 511Contracts Finder: 489

Awarded contracts · 98 live

All contracts with a published award notice where UNIVERSITY OF EXETER 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
UP
£185.0mest.
2
HN
2 contracts · SME · 18 Sept
£13.1mest.
3
RA
2 contracts · SME · 18 Sept
£13.1mest.
4
BI
1 contract · 15 Feb
£12.5m
5
BG
4 contracts · SME · 03 May01 May
£10.1m
6
WI
1 contract · SME · 01 May
£10.0m
7
MS
1 contract · 01 Mar
£8.1m
8
SS
4 contracts · SME · 16 Jul
£8.0mest.
9445
···
437 other suppliers
long tail · 153 SMEs
£281.5m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Industrial machinery
12 contracts
£252.6m
27%
IT services, software
106 contracts
£198.3m
21%
Construction works
10 contracts
£195.1m
21%
Other
260 contracts
£76.8m
8%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
2 contracts
£75.2m
8%
Business, legal, advisory
89 contracts
£70.8m
8%
Food, beverages, tobacco
5 contracts
£55.5m
6%
Laboratory, scientific
93 contracts
£18.4m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Industrial machinery
IT services, software
Construction works
Other
2
0
1
6
4
32
0
Petroleum, fuel, energy
Business, legal, advisory
0
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 EXETER 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.

40%
SME supplier share
target 33%
267
SME award rows
2
VCSE award rows
445
Distinct suppliers
50%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
4%
Local suppliers (EX postcodes)
6 of 137 with known office
8%
Value to local suppliers
£8.0m of £104.6m
31%
Postcode coverage
137 of 445 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the EX 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
UKK43
Companies House
RC000653
Contact
Melanie Cox
Email
m.cox2@exeter.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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