Spend profile

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

£7.3m
12 m spend
£2.4m
Prior 12 m
+203%
YoY change
£202k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
UNIVERSITY OF KEELE — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£562k£1.1m£1.7m£2.2mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

1

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

10

£581k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
13 recorded contracts worth £5.3m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified65 · £20.0m
services20 · £7.5m
works3 · £6.5m
goods9 · £2.2m

Instrument type

contract96 · £36.3m
call off1 · £0
Source:Contracts Finder: 56Find a Tender: 41

Awarded contracts · 52 live

All contracts with a published award notice where UNIVERSITY OF KEELE 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
WL
2 contracts · SME · 08 Apr
£2.8m
2
RB
£2.2mest.
3
DC
1 contract · SME
£2.2mest.
4
SC
£2.2mest.
5
QQ
£1.9mest.
6
ID
1 contract · 08 Dec
£1.7m
7
EC
£1.6mest.
8
UL
2 contracts · SME
£1.5mest.
968
···
60 other suppliers
long tail · 27 SMEs
£17.1m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Mining, metals
3 contracts
£19.5m
45%
Other
17 contracts
£8.3m
19%
Software packages, IT
14 contracts
£3.5m
8%
Architecture, engineering
11 contracts
£3.3m
8%
Office equipment, IT
4 contracts
£3.3m
7%
Business, legal, advisory
4 contracts
£2.9m
7%
Furniture, cleaning
5 contracts
£1.6m
4%
Food, beverages, tobacco
2 contracts
£1.4m
3%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Mining, metals
Other
2
Software packages, IT
0
0
0
0
Architecture, engineering
0
0
Office equipment, IT
0
1
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 KEELE 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.

46%
SME supplier share
target 33%
39
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
68
Distinct suppliers
61%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
9%
Local suppliers (ST postcodes)
3 of 35 with known office
46%
Value to local suppliers
£13.1m of £28.7m
51%
Postcode coverage
35 of 68 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the ST 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
UKG24
Companies House
RC000655
Contact
Leanne Fryer
Email
l.fryer@keele.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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