Spend profile

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

£7.8m
12 m spend
£21.0m
Prior 12 m
-63%
YoY change
£375k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
University of Sunderland — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£3.7m£7.4m£11m£15mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

4

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

2

£120k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified348 · £176.4m
services83 · £28.2m
goods12 · £3.9m
works19 · £1.4m

Instrument type

contract462 · £209.9m
Source:Contracts Finder: 338Find a Tender: 124

Awarded contracts · 49 live

All contracts with a published award notice where University of Sunderland 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
VC
1 contract · 31 Mar
£63.6m
2
MI
2 contracts · 06 Dec
£13.2m
3
AG
3 contracts · 01 Jun14 May
£12.9mest.
4
LL
3 contracts · 11 Apr30 May
£8.3m
5
WL
4 contracts · SME · 27 Oct31 Jul
£6.7mest.
6
ST
£6.3mest.
7
TE
2 contracts · 01 Nov31 Jul
£6.1m
8
WT
£5.0mest.
9195
···
187 other suppliers
long tail · 75 SMEs
£95.4m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
29 contracts
£92.2m
44%
Business, legal, advisory
27 contracts
£30.9m
15%
Software packages, IT
29 contracts
£20.0m
9%
Financial, insurance
15 contracts
£18.9m
9%
IT services, software
13 contracts
£17.9m
8%
Radio, TV, communications
12 contracts
£12.4m
6%
Architecture, engineering
51 contracts
£11.7m
6%
Health & social work
6 contracts
£7.5m
4%

Activity heatmap

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

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Construction works
Business, legal, advisory
Software packages, IT
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IT services, software
Radio, TV, communications
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 · 2 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 2 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

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.

34%
SME supplier share
target 33%
100
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
195
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
UKC23
Contact
Louisa Lertas-Davies
Email
procurement@sunderland.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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