Spend profile

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

£11.3m
12 m spend
£4.0m
Prior 12 m
+184%
YoY change
£145k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
The University Of Kent — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£896k£1.8m£2.7m£3.6mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

3

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

18

£2.7m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
73 recorded contracts worth £8.4m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified359 · £59.9m
services38 · £19.0m
works18 · £13.9m
goods13 · £3.9m

Instrument type

contract428 · £96.7m
Source:Find a Tender: 245Contracts Finder: 183

Awarded contracts · 131 live

All contracts with a published award notice where The University Of Kent 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
FL
1 contract · 17 Jul
£14.0m
2
ZL
4 contracts · SME · 08 Jan10 Nov
£3.7mest.
3
OU
1 contract · 10 Feb
£3.3m
4
SS
1 contract · 10 Apr
£3.2m
5
HN
6 contracts · SME · 23 Jan08 Jul
£3.0m
6
EY
6 contracts · 22 May31 Aug
£3.0m
7
MJ
2 contracts · 19 Apr
£3.0mest.
8
WL
2 contracts · 16 Jun
£2.6mest.
9170
···
162 other suppliers
long tail · 77 SMEs
£37.8m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
186 contracts
£19.3m
24%
Construction works
25 contracts
£15.5m
19%
IT services, software
2 contracts
£14.2m
18%
Transport services
14 contracts
£10.9m
13%
Business, legal, advisory
12 contracts
£8.6m
11%
Architecture, engineering
8 contracts
£5.7m
7%
Sewage, waste, environment
7 contracts
£3.9m
5%
Installation services
4 contracts
£2.7m
3%

Activity heatmap

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

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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 · 1 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 1 notice tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

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.

47%
SME supplier share
target 33%
135
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
170
Distinct suppliers
35%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
10%
Local suppliers (CT postcodes)
7 of 69 with known office
12%
Value to local suppliers
£6.2m of £51.9m
41%
Postcode coverage
69 of 170 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the CT 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
UKJ44
Companies House
RC000656
Contact
Max Hubbard
Email
procurement@kent.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.

Resources

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