Spend profile

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

£9.0m
12 m spend
£884k
Prior 12 m
+914%
YoY change
£286k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£818k£1.6m£2.5m£3.3mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

2

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

29

£2.7m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
8 recorded contracts worth £4.9m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified396 · £147.7m
services9 · £4.1m
works3 · £1.1m
goods5 · £180k

Instrument type

call off52 · £111.0m
contract361 · £42.1m
Source:Contracts Finder: 376Find a Tender: 37

Awarded contracts · 68 live

All contracts with a published award notice where UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER 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
BC
2 contracts · 31 May16 Oct
£59.7m
2
CC
3 contracts · SME · 24 May25 Jul
£19.8m
3
JT
2 contracts · SME · 11 Oct24 May
£9.7m
4
XM
1 contract · 01 Feb
£5.3m
5
PB
9 contracts · SME · 13 Oct08 Apr
£4.5m
6
LC
4 contracts · 21 Dec12 Jun
£3.9mest.
7
LR
1 contract · 17 Jan
£2.8m
8
TD
2 contracts · 12 Jul08 Feb
£2.3m
9184
···
176 other suppliers
long tail · 43 SMEs
£42.7m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
72 contracts
£109.0m
71%
Other
52 contracts
£15.6m
10%
Architecture, engineering
46 contracts
£12.3m
8%
Laboratory, scientific
14 contracts
£7.0m
5%
Repair & maintenance
11 contracts
£4.0m
3%
Business, legal, advisory
15 contracts
£3.2m
2%
Sewage, waste, environment
16 contracts
£1.7m
1%
Education, training
3 contracts
£1.1m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Construction works
Other
0
0
3
3
0
0
2
Architecture, engineering
Laboratory, scientific
Repair & maintenance
Business, legal, advisory
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 LANCASTER 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.

33%
SME supplier share
target 33%
89
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
184
Distinct suppliers
36%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
8%
Local suppliers (LA postcodes)
6 of 80 with known office
4%
Value to local suppliers
£5.0m of £127.9m
43%
Postcode coverage
80 of 184 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the LA 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
UKD44
Companies House
RC000657
Contact
Michael Hayes
Email
tenders@lancaster.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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