Spend profile

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

£16.0m
12 m spend
£71.1m
Prior 12 m
-77%
YoY change
£185k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£5.1m£10m£15m£20mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

9

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£38k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified851 · £528.2m
services73 · £279.3m
works2 · £150.0m
goods74 · £111.7m

Instrument type

contract871 · £904.0m
call off129 · £165.2m
Source:Contracts Finder: 851Find a Tender: 149

Awarded contracts · 213 live

All contracts with a published award notice where UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON 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
CT
2 contracts · 21 Oct
£96.0mest.
2
SR
£34.0mest.
3
CT
3 contracts · 18 Aug03 Mar
£29.8mest.
4
JE
5 contracts · 20 May22 Dec
£22.8mest.
5
AL
87 contracts · 26 Oct23 Feb
£21.7m
6
BN
2 contracts · 19 Apr
£21.0mest.
7
TH
2 contracts · 19 Jul
£18.0mest.
8
DC
17 contracts · 07 May08 Jan
£17.9m
9481
···
473 other suppliers
long tail · 215 SMEs
£472.3m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
45 contracts
£170.0m
21%
Education, training
14 contracts
£162.3m
20%
Radio, TV, communications
24 contracts
£104.5m
13%
Architecture, engineering
84 contracts
£104.3m
13%
Business, legal, advisory
55 contracts
£82.6m
10%
Support transport services
6 contracts
£72.0m
9%
IT services, software
64 contracts
£56.3m
7%
Software packages, IT
120 contracts
£53.1m
7%

Activity heatmap

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

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Construction works
Education, training
Radio, TV, communications
Architecture, engineering
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Support transport services
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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.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON 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%
313
SME award rows
6
VCSE award rows
481
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
UKJ32
Companies House
RC000668
Contact
Hannah Nash
Email
procurement@soton.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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