Spend profile

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

£9.0m
12 m spend
£33.6m
Prior 12 m
-73%
YoY change
£156k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£4.7m£9.3m£14m£19mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

13

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£315k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
40 recorded contracts worth £27.1m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified816 · £254.8m
works6 · £32.3m
goods121 · £26.3m
services57 · £11.9m

Instrument type

contract783 · £187.4m
call off217 · £137.9m
Source:Contracts Finder: 802Find a Tender: 198

Awarded contracts · 92 live

All contracts with a published award notice where UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD 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
HB
3 contracts · 09 Jan09 Oct
£31.8mest.
2
CC
2 contracts · SME · 28 May
£30.0mest.
3
RC
1 contract · 27 May
£11.2m
4
AL
22 contracts · SME · 17 Jul28 Nov
£10.9m
5
DT
1 contract · 04 Dec
£10.0m
6
DI
2 contracts · SME · 04 Sept
£9.9mest.
7
NP
15 contracts · SME · 11 Sept11 Jun
£7.4m
8
AL
18 contracts · SME · 12 Jun29 Jan
£5.9m
9491
···
483 other suppliers
long tail · 209 SMEs
£179.6m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
89 contracts
£85.8m
33%
Other
40 contracts
£39.2m
15%
Laboratory, scientific
128 contracts
£35.9m
14%
Business, legal, advisory
85 contracts
£26.1m
10%
Industrial machinery
95 contracts
£24.8m
10%
Software packages, IT
98 contracts
£20.6m
8%
Electrical machinery
27 contracts
£16.1m
6%
Printed matter
19 contracts
£12.7m
5%

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
1
0
0
Other
0
1
0
Laboratory, scientific
Business, legal, advisory
Industrial machinery
Software packages, 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.

UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD 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.

44%
SME supplier share
target 33%
345
SME award rows
21
VCSE award rows
491
Distinct suppliers
46%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
9%
Local suppliers (S postcodes)
14 of 153 with known office
28%
Value to local suppliers
£50.0m of £181.9m
31%
Postcode coverage
153 of 491 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the S 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
UKE32
Companies House
RC000667
Contact
Ghulam Mujtaba
Email
procurement@sheffield.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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