Spend profile

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

£8.1m
12 m spend
£13.5m
Prior 12 m
-40%
YoY change
£139k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD(THE) — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£848k£1.7m£2.5m£3.4mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

6

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

19

£3.1m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified427 · £35.5m
services54 · £13.1m
goods45 · £6.0m
works21 · £310k

Instrument type

contract463 · £37.6m
call off84 · £17.3m
Source:Contracts Finder: 324Find a Tender: 223

Awarded contracts · 116 live

All contracts with a published award notice where UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD(THE) 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
SP
14 contracts · 19 Jul21 May
£5.8mest.
2
VH
2 contracts · 17 Dec
£3.0mest.
3
JS
2 contracts · 20 Feb
£2.6mest.
4
GA
2 contracts · 23 Apr
£2.4mest.
5
PS
3 contracts · 23 Apr30 May
£1.8mest.
6
PR
3 contracts · 10 Jan
£1.6mest.
7
CC
2 contracts · 09 Mar
£1.5mest.
8
NC
2 contracts · 06 May
£1.5mest.
9206
···
198 other suppliers
long tail · 52 SMEs
£44.9m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
33 contracts
£22.6m
33%
Other
116 contracts
£14.1m
21%
Health & social work
5 contracts
£7.1m
10%
Software packages, IT
32 contracts
£6.7m
10%
Construction works
15 contracts
£5.6m
8%
Office equipment, IT
10 contracts
£5.5m
8%
Industrial machinery
7 contracts
£3.6m
5%
Radio, TV, communications
7 contracts
£2.9m
4%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Business, legal, advisory
0
Other
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
Health & social work
Software packages, IT
0
1
1
Construction works
1
Office equipment, IT
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.

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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.

21%
SME supplier share
target 33%
58
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
206
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 21% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

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
UKD34
Companies House
RC000666
Contact
Olivia Ward
Email
O.H.Ward@salford.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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