At a glance · for buyers and watchdogs
Hickling and Squires (UK) Limited has won £5.7m across 13 public-sector buyers, with 8 live contracts. No active Companies House risk flags.
Why: top buyer CRESCENT PURCHASING LIMITED at 47% · 50% in Printed matter · 0 active risk flags · 0 modifications.
ESG & policies vault · 0/5
Key governance & sustainability policies. Published documents link out; missing ones are greyed.
Capabilities
What this supplier does, where they sit, who they sell to.
- 2858/LM - Print services University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam University - Framework Agreement
- 380_19 - Supply of Printing Services for ESPO
- 1890/LM - Print Services Framework Agreement - High Quality Litho Sheet Fed, Digital Print & Wide Format Print
- 4403.PS.LWM.24 Print Services Framework Agreement for High Quality Litho Sheet Fed & Digital Printing (non Wide Format)
- CPU 2086 Assorted Printing Requirements
Extracted automatically from hickling-squires.co.uk on Jul 2026. Not independently verified — treat as the supplier’s own marketing claims.
Case studies · 2
Delivery stories from the supplier’s website. Clients are not yet cross-checked against award records.
Extracted automatically from hickling-squires.co.uk on Jul 2026. Not independently verified — treat as the supplier’s own marketing claims.
Buyer references
Named public-sector contacts who have agreed to act as a reference.
No buyer references yet
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Accreditations & memberships
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No accreditations recorded
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KPI performance
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No verified KPI scores yet
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Contracts · 8 live · 13 historic
Pulled from Contracts Finder & Find a Tender. Most recent first.
| Title | Buyer | CPV | Awarded | Value | Term | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nottingham Trent University | — | 01 Apr 2026 | £1.7m | 3 yrs | pending | |
| UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD | 22100000 | 01 Nov 2025 | £114k | 2 yrs | Live | |
| Keele University | 22458000 | 12 Oct 2022 | £150k | 2 yrs | Closed | |
| Sheffield Hallam University | 22160000 | 13 Nov 2022 | £30k | — | Closed | |
| CRESCENT PURCHASING LIMITED | 22000000 | 18 Feb 2022 | £2.7m | 3 yrs | Closed | |
| UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD | 79800000 | 01 Nov 2021 | £318k | 2 yrs | Closed | |
| Nottingham City Council | 22000000 | 11 Jul 2021 | £29k | 4 yrs | Closed | |
| Espo | 22000000 | 01 Oct 2019 | £145k | 2 yrs | Closed | |
| ASTON UNIVERSITY | 22000000 | 01 Apr 2019 | £100k | 3 yrs | Closed | |
| UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD | 22000000 | 01 Sept 2018 | £128k | 2 yrs | Closed |
Top buyers · 13 buyers · top 3 = 86%
Share of awarded value. Concentration fires above 40% for any single buyer.
Category mix
CPV-division share of last-12m awarded value. Single-category exposure: 50%.
Geography
Distribution of awarded value by buyer region.
Peers
Suppliers with overlapping CPVs & buyers (last 24m). Hickling and Squires (UK) Limited highlighted.
| Supplier | SME? | Awarded · 24m | Contracts |
|---|---|---|---|
| No | £119.1m | 1 | |
| No | £6.9m | 1 | |
| Yes | £5.1m | 1 | |
| No | £4.4m | 1 | |
| No | £3.2m | 4 | |
HA Hickling and Squires (UK) Limited | Yes | £1.7m | — |
Red flags · 0 active
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Compliance scorecard
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Modifications
Variations to awarded contracts logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74.
No modifications recorded
No published contract variations for this supplier. Modification notices appear here as they are issued under the Procurement Act 2023.
News mentions
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No news mentions found
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Companies House
Live sync — registered details, directors, PSC and SIC codes.
Registered details
- Company no.
- 05272593
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private limited
- Incorporated
- 28 Oct 2004
- Reg. office
- Unit One Dunsil Road, Moorgreen Industrial Park, Newthorpe, Nottingham, NG16 3TN
- SIC codes
- 18129
- Last accounts
- 30 Nov 2025
- Next accounts due
- 31 Aug 2027
Directors & PSC
- GILBERT, Jamie Richard — directorAppointed 01 Mar 2016
- JORDAN, Lee Anthony — directorAppointed 01 Mar 2016
- Hickling And Squires (Holdings) Ltd — person with significant controlownership of shares 75 to 100 percent · voting rights 75 to 100 percent · right to appoint and remove directors
Financial
Filed accounts from Companies House.
No financial filings on record
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Org tree
Group structure and ownership.
Independent. No parent company or subsidiaries recorded at Companies House for this entity.
Social value
Commitments mapped to the Government Social Value Model themes.
No social-value commitments yet
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