Buyer profile
Department for Education
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Total contracts
2,285
Known spend
£53bn
1896 disclosed
Average value
£28m
Per contract
Active suppliers
10
Last 5 years
Top suppliers
Last 5 years- 1
TILBURY DOUGLAS CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
£22bn
- 2
MCLAREN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
£22bn
- 3
Kings College London
4 winslatest 23 Sept 2026£18m
- 4
Bloom Procurement Services Ltd
4 winslatest 17 Jan 2026£171,768
- 5
WILLMOTT DIXON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
£22bn
- 6
KIER CONSTRUCTION LIMITED
£22bn
- 7
MCAVOY MODULAR OFFSITE LIMITED
£15bn
- 8
King's College London
£4m
- 9
Mutual Ventures Ltd
3 winslatest 13 Jul 2026£4m
- 10
Mott MacDonald
3 winslatest 01 Oct 2026£4m
What they buy
By CPV categoryEducation & trainingCPV 80
874 contracts · £5bn
R&D servicesCPV 73
338 contracts · £119m
IT servicesCPV 72
288 contracts · £510m
Business servicesCPV 79
154 contracts · £399m
Health & social workCPV 85
150 contracts · £217m
SoftwareCPV 48
42 contracts · £63m
Architectural & engineeringCPV 71
28 contracts · £207m
Office & computing equipmentCPV 30
23 contracts · £628m
Renewal radar
Awarded contracts predicted to come up for re-tender in the next 18 months
- RM6297 Print and Digital Communications (con_31757)
Predicted using median duration of past contracts from this buyer in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Dec 2026).
Dec 2026
60% confident
- AI and Automation Apprenticeships - June 2026 Cambridge Spark (con_31809)
Predicted using median duration of past contracts from this buyer in the same CPV division (9 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Feb 2027).
Feb 2027
60% confident
- L5 Operations Mgr Apprenticeships - IODA (con_31739)
Predicted using median duration of past contracts from this buyer in the same CPV division (9 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Mar 2027).
Mar 2027
60% confident
- SEND Adviser Contract Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council & City of York Council (con_31569)
Predicted using median duration of past contracts from this buyer in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Mar 2027).
Mar 2027
60% confident
- SEND Adviser Contract Buckinghamshire & East Sussex (con_31545)
Predicted using median duration of past contracts from this buyer in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Mar 2027).
Mar 2027
60% confident
- SEND Adviser Contract to London Boroughs of Kingston Upon Thames, Richmond Upon Thames, Southwark and Waltham Forest (con_31653)
Predicted using median duration of past contracts from this buyer in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Mar 2027).
Mar 2027
60% confident
- SEND Adviser Contract St Helens, Manchester & Wigan (con_31669)
Predicted using median duration of past contracts from this buyer in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Mar 2027).
Mar 2027
60% confident
- SEND Adviser Contract: Trafford (con_31714)
Predicted using median duration of past contracts from this buyer in the same CPV division (11 months from contract start date → renewal expected by Mar 2027).
Mar 2027
60% confident
Tender activity
Notices published per month — last 24 months
All contracts (2285)
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
Omnibus survey OF pupils AND their parents/carers
The Contractor shall achieve the following objectives: • Establish and deliver a survey to collect data from a stratified random sample of at least 1500 pupils and their parents/ca
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
Project to find innovative approaches to early years partnerships.
The government is aware that partnership working is likely to be an important feature of the delivery of the 30 hours entitlement, and the project proposed will inform the Early Im
Travel booking and management service
Travel booking and management service
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
Chairing of the external advisory board of the review of the role of local authorities
Alan Wood leads an External Advisory Board for LA review project. This complies with a commitment made in the Educational Excellence Everywhere white paper to review the responsibi
School assessment visits for system leadership team
NCTL has appointed Peter Matthews Associates Limited to manage, co-ordinate and deliver a significant number of school visits. These visits are an essential stage within the teachi
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
THE provision OF expert education advice FOR THE department FOR education
Specialist contractors to support the Academies and Free Schools Programme and help deliver the Department’s aim to ensure high educational standards in academies and free schools
Dudley metropolitan council
The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in Local Authorities, as part of interventions, in response to failure or weakness in the provision of