Spend profile

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

£5.3m
12 m spend
£24.6m
Prior 12 m
-79%
YoY change
£101k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
University of Plymouth — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£1.4m£2.8m£4.1m£5.5mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

32

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£1.5m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
30 recorded contracts worth £8.1m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified695 · £162.4m
services71 · £30.7m
goods102 · £10.6m
works8 · £6.3m

Instrument type

contract800 · £184.1m
call off76 · £25.9m
Source:Contracts Finder: 617Find a Tender: 259

Awarded contracts · 71 live

All contracts with a published award notice where University of Plymouth 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
MT
2 contracts · SME · 09 Mar
£18.5m
2
GL
7 contracts · SME · 06 Nov30 Oct
£10.3m
3
OL
4 contracts · 09 Sept02 May
£7.7m
4
ES
1 contract · 01 Jan
£7.6m
5
TE
2 contracts · 30 Sept
£5.4m
6
HS
3 contracts · SME · 01 Oct13 Sept
£3.9mest.
7
BI
1 contract · 28 Jan
£3.9m
8
SC
6 contracts · 09 Mar09 Dec
£3.8m
9381
···
373 other suppliers
long tail · 202 SMEs
£105.5m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Laboratory, scientific
30 contracts
£24.4m
19%
Construction works
57 contracts
£24.3m
19%
Office equipment, IT
15 contracts
£23.7m
18%
Other
100 contracts
£12.9m
10%
Business, legal, advisory
69 contracts
£11.9m
9%
Software packages, IT
48 contracts
£11.7m
9%
Architecture, engineering
25 contracts
£11.2m
9%
Industrial machinery
21 contracts
£10.9m
8%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Laboratory, scientific
Construction works
Office equipment, IT
Other
1
1
Business, legal, advisory
1
0
0
Software packages, IT
1
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 Plymouth 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.

51%
SME supplier share
target 33%
306
SME award rows
2
VCSE award rows
381
Distinct suppliers
25%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
4%
Local suppliers (PL postcodes)
5 of 134 with known office
16%
Value to local suppliers
£14.7m of £93.4m
35%
Postcode coverage
134 of 381 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the PL 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
UKK41
Contact
Megan Worth
Email
supplier@plymouth.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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