Spend profile

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

£34.3m
12 m spend
£15.8m
Prior 12 m
+117%
YoY change
£226k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
University of Portsmouth — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£6.7m£13m£20m£27mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

6

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified105 · £70.9m
services12 · £21.4m
goods19 · £3.8m

Instrument type

contract110 · £77.0m
call off26 · £19.1m
Source:Contracts Finder: 105Find a Tender: 31

Awarded contracts · 38 live

All contracts with a published award notice where University of Portsmouth 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
MS
£23.1m
2
SR
£17.0mest.
3
WC
1 contract · 20 Aug
£7.6m
4
HP
1 contract · SME · 07 Dec
£7.0m
5
FC
1 contract · SME · 26 Nov
£6.1m
6
RA
24 contracts · 28 Feb03 Oct
£4.3m
7
SP
1 contract · 01 Nov
£4.0m
8
IV
2 contracts · 29 Nov01 Mar
£3.0m
967
···
59 other suppliers
long tail · 26 SMEs
£20.2m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
6 contracts
£31.6m
36%
Sewage, waste, environment
4 contracts
£17.5m
20%
Business, legal, advisory
11 contracts
£16.9m
19%
Architecture, engineering
36 contracts
£7.2m
8%
Furniture, cleaning
1 contract
£4.0m
5%
Laboratory, scientific
8 contracts
£3.9m
4%
Software packages, IT
8 contracts
£3.4m
4%
Agriculture, forestry services
2 contracts
£3.0m
3%

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
8
23
Sewage, waste, environment
Business, legal, advisory
1
Architecture, engineering
1
1
0
Furniture, cleaning
Laboratory, scientific
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 Portsmouth 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%
32
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
67
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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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
UKJ31
Contact
Sarah McGrady
Email
procurement@port.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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