Spend profile

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

£3.6m
12 m spend
£4.0m
Prior 12 m
-10%
YoY change
£147k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
The University of Northumbria at Newcastle — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£787k£1.6m£2.4m£3.1mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

16

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
3 recorded contracts worth £483k end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified225 · £35.4m
services36 · £11.1m
works4 · £4.0m
goods18 · £2.2m

Instrument type

contract283 · £52.6m
Source:Contracts Finder: 224Find a Tender: 59

Awarded contracts · 16 live

All contracts with a published award notice where The University of Northumbria at Newcastle 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
LU
2 contracts · SME · 19 Feb
£6.0m
2
MC
£2.5m
3
KL
2 contracts · 20 Jun
£1.8mest.
4
CF
2 contracts · 18 Jun11 Jul
£1.2m
5
AI
2 contracts · 02 Jan
£1.1mest.
6
ET
2 contracts · 26 May
£958kest.
7
SI
5 contracts · 28 Apr
£933k
8
LR
5 contracts · 28 Apr
£933k
9117
···
109 other suppliers
long tail · 40 SMEs
£16.5m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Architecture, engineering
8 contracts
£11.9m
23%
Construction works
5 contracts
£8.7m
17%
Other
43 contracts
£7.6m
15%
R&D services
40 contracts
£7.5m
15%
Office equipment, IT
5 contracts
£6.6m
13%
Business, legal, advisory
41 contracts
£4.9m
9%
Laboratory, scientific
17 contracts
£3.7m
7%
Medical, pharmaceutical
7 contracts
£508k
1%

Activity heatmap

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

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Architecture, engineering
Construction works
3
Other
R&D services
Office equipment, IT
0
Business, legal, advisory
0
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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 · 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.

The University of Northumbria at Newcastle 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.

39%
SME supplier share
target 33%
67
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
117
Distinct suppliers
38%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
5%
Local suppliers (NE postcodes)
2 of 42 with known office
16%
Value to local suppliers
£3.0m of £19.1m
36%
Postcode coverage
42 of 117 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the NE 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
UKC22
Contact
Gill Mournian
Email
gill.mournian@northumbria.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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