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)
Evaluation of the STEM teacher supply package
See expression of interest document at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/568551/EOI_-_STEM_Full_Evaluation.pdf
Children’s services commissioner in bromley
Where Ofsted finds systemic or persistent failure by a local authority to provide adequate children’s services, the Department for Education initiates steps to secure improvement,
High potential senior leaders programme
The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL), an executive agency of the DfE, is seeking 1 national provider (or consortium) to deliver a new “High Potential Senior Lead
Early years (VCS) grants 2017-18
Please note that this is a grant opportunity. Through the Early Years VCS Grant Programme we want to help develop and further our strategic aims to support early years delivery pri
Illustrations supplier for national curriculum trailing materials
The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is looking to appoint an organisation to carry out illustration work in support of the STA test development work taking place between 14 Nove
Children’s social care adviser
DfE wishes to appoint one Adviser to provide intervention and improvement support in both Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council and Liverpool City Council. The Adviser will provide a
Condition data collection programme ("CDC")
Following the PIN issued on 10/062016 (2016/S 113-200885) the EFA (on behalf of the DfE) are seeking to procure Consultants across two Lots to deliver Technical Survey Management S
Step up to social work cohort five (and six) - support contractor
A contractor to provide information, coordination and administrative support to local authorities grouped in regional partnerships to assess an anticipated application pool of c.6,
Administration of the junior individual savings account (JISA) scheme for looked after children and care leavers
In 2011, the Coalition Government ceased funding Child Trust Funds (CTFs) but agreed to establish a new scheme, funded and organised by DfE, to provide children who had been looked
Early years investment fund manager
This Contract Notice is issued by the Department for Education (DfE) and is an opportunity relating to the establishment of a funding vehicle (the “Early Years Investment Fund” (“E
Website redevelopment
The contract is for Phase 2 of the website development to undertake the following: • A full redesign that supports and enhances our refreshed corporate identity and brand, and bett
Accreditation of a school centred initial teacher training (scitt) provision for modern foreign languages (MFL)
Please note that this is a grant opportunity and not a contract. In line with the commitment for schools to include a Modern Foreign Language (MFL) as part of the English Baccalaur
Provision of braille quality assurance resource for the standards and testing agency
The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is looking to appoint Braille experts to support Quality Assurance processes within STA in relation to modified Braille versions of key stage
Assessment and accreditation process for child and family social workers: assessment content development.
This contract refers to the development of phase 1 of the assessment and accreditation process child and family social workers including: content for knowledge-based assessment; co
Accountancy services: accounting, data collation, validation and consolidation services.
Accountancy services are required to undertake the collation, validation, consolidation and accounting for up to 3,200 Academy Trusts’ (ATs) accounts returns in order to produce th
Childcare and early years survey of parents 2017
Expressions of interest are sought for conducting the Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents 2017. The Childcare and Early Years Survey of Parents is a major Department for Ed
National professional qualification final assessment delivery
The National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL), an executive agency of the Department for Education, is undertaking a procurement exercise to deliver final assessments for
Resource package to support teachers to hold topical classroom debates which help build children’s knowledge and understanding of fundamental british values
We are looking for a proposal for a product that supports and enhances teachers’ ability to hold knowledge-based debates on topical issues relating to fundamental British values (d
National maths education centre
The government is committed to improving standards in mathematics to match those in the best education systems the world. Mathematics is central to improving productivity and incre
Implementation of achieving excellence areas
The aim of this project is to describe and assess the implementation of the AEA strategy in the first year of delivery, in order to provide learning for the DfE on what worked well