Spend profile

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

£12.7m
12 m spend
£15.5m
Prior 12 m
-18%
YoY change
£186k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
University of Lincoln — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£2.0m£4.1m£6.1m£8.2mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

2

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

2

£175k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
21 recorded contracts worth £15.1m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified292 · £266.3m
goods8 · £12.6m
services15 · £3.8m

Instrument type

contract308 · £282.1m
call off7 · £497k
Source:Contracts Finder: 270Find a Tender: 45

Awarded contracts · 43 live

All contracts with a published award notice where University of Lincoln 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
SL
£81.6m
2
XL
5 contracts · 25 Nov05 Aug
£19.6mest.
3
ED
1 contract · SME · 09 Mar
£18.0m
4
BC
2 contracts · 28 May17 Nov
£17.3m
5
SP
7 contracts · 01 Feb06 Feb
£16.4m
6
II
2 contracts · 26 Apr19 Mar
£12.7m
7
SS
1 contract · 26 Apr
£12.7m
8
SE
1 contract · 28 Jul
£7.8m
9176
···
168 other suppliers
long tail · 57 SMEs
£96.7m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
38 contracts
£139.0m
55%
Business, legal, advisory
21 contracts
£33.5m
13%
Software packages, IT
31 contracts
£26.0m
10%
Office equipment, IT
13 contracts
£23.3m
9%
Radio, TV, communications
7 contracts
£9.9m
4%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
5 contracts
£9.2m
4%
Laboratory, scientific
13 contracts
£5.7m
2%
Electrical machinery
11 contracts
£5.2m
2%

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
0
0
Business, legal, advisory
0
0
Software packages, IT
0
0
1
0
Office equipment, IT
7
Radio, TV, communications
Petroleum, fuel, energy
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 Lincoln 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.

27%
SME supplier share
target 33%
75
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
176
Distinct suppliers
13%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
1%
Local suppliers (LN postcodes)
1 of 83 with known office
3%
Value to local suppliers
£4.4m of £132.7m
47%
Postcode coverage
83 of 176 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the LN 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.
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 27% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

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
UKF30
Contact
Vasos Melides
Email
vmelides@lincoln.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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