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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

Open4Awarded1,629Closed589

Top suppliers

Last 5 years
  1. 1

    TILBURY DOUGLAS CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

    4 winslatest 25 Aug 2026CH 00303359

    £22bn

  2. 2

    MCLAREN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

    4 winslatest 06 Oct 2026CH 05377750

    £22bn

  3. 3

    Kings College London

    4 winslatest 23 Sept 2026

    £18m

  4. 4

    Bloom Procurement Services Ltd

    4 winslatest 17 Jan 2026

    £171,768

  5. 5

    WILLMOTT DIXON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

    3 winslatest 02 Jul 2026CH 00768173

    £22bn

  6. 6

    KIER CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

    3 winslatest 25 Aug 2026CH 02099533

    £22bn

  7. 7

    MCAVOY MODULAR OFFSITE LIMITED

    3 winslatest 10 Jul 2026CH NI008762

    £15bn

  8. 8

    King's College London

    3 winslatest 05 Jan 2026CH RC000297

    £4m

  9. 9

    Mutual Ventures Ltd

    3 winslatest 13 Jul 2026

    £4m

  10. 10

    Mott MacDonald

    3 winslatest 01 Oct 2026

    £4m

What they buy

By CPV category
  • Education & 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

8 forecast

Tender activity

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All contracts (2285)

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44fc3859-973c-4d06-8f49-fd7ca890e239 · tender

Evaluation of the STEM teacher supply package

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

See expression of interest document at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/568551/EOI_-_STEM_Full_Evaluation.pdf

£On request
⏱ 30 Nov 2016
Posted · 120mo agoView details →
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f3a8519e-0c66-425b-b8f2-6cf4ae1c18ed · tender

Children’s services commissioner in bromley

Department For Education
servicesSouth EastSME friendly

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,

££10,000 — £17,280
⏱ 1 Nov 2016
Posted · 121mo agoView details →
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abeb4ff3-0b43-4e35-9ae4-0e46afb3c25f · awardUpdate

High potential senior leaders programme

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

£Up to £8,300,000
⏱ 17 Nov 2016
Posted · 121mo agoView details →
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6b7c2037-8122-4045-b1df-1738b67783e0 · tender

Early years (VCS) grants 2017-18

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

££150,000 — £450,000
⏱ 19 Oct 2016
Posted · 122mo agoView details →
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4531ef41-176e-4902-9958-63d1a516fed0 · award

Illustrations supplier for national curriculum trailing materials

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

££5,000 — £10,000
⏱ 26 Oct 2016
Posted · 122mo agoView details →
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3bf3e6dd-c09d-4e55-a65f-66561587dcad · tender

Children’s social care adviser

Department For Education
servicesNorth WestSME friendly

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

££25,000 — £46,080
⏱ 3 Oct 2016
Posted · 122mo agoView details →
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779b32fa-705b-49c8-a737-0ab749478264 · awardUpdate

Condition data collection programme ("CDC")

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

£Up to £29,600,000
⏱ 6 Oct 2016
Posted · 122mo agoView details →
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6d167971-e1df-4946-8748-284da6a80df2 · awardUpdate

Step up to social work cohort five (and six) - support contractor

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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,

££300,000 — £600,000
⏱ 21 Oct 2016
Posted · 122mo agoView details →
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72c3a367-2df0-4c36-b96b-1c643d156d58 · awardUpdate

Administration of the junior individual savings account (JISA) scheme for looked after children and care leavers

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

£Up to £500,000
⏱ 3 Oct 2016
Posted · 122mo agoView details →
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3636787a-81ad-4a04-9e78-ef5be8bfcba1 · award

Early years investment fund manager

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

££3,000,000 — £8,000,000
⏱ 3 Oct 2016
Posted · 122mo agoView details →
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f97ba7ad-fe1c-4e9b-8cd4-48599ab1d15a · tender

Website redevelopment

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

£Up to £28,000
⏱ 13 Sept 2016
Posted · 123mo agoView details →
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34f4fd6c-8c89-4baa-b8c8-0a92696a5f5e · tender

Accreditation of a school centred initial teacher training (scitt) provision for modern foreign languages (MFL)

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

£On request
⏱ 2 Sept 2016
Posted · 123mo agoView details →
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75d8de89-88a1-4fc6-bb36-ca07d807d12b · award

Provision of braille quality assurance resource for the standards and testing agency

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

££10,000 — £15,000
⏱ 12 Sept 2016
Posted · 123mo agoView details →
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85e6a2c5-e7f1-4b3b-bc11-925369df28b7 · awardUpdate

Assessment and accreditation process for child and family social workers: assessment content development.

Department For Education
services

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

££150,000 — £275,000
⏱ 23 Sept 2016
Posted · 123mo agoView details →
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5e4b4858-cfbf-475a-a909-22fcb53b7500 · awardUpdate

Accountancy services: accounting, data collation, validation and consolidation services.

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

££1,000,000 — £2,000,000
⏱ 8 Sept 2016
Posted · 123mo agoView details →
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d908ee7c-c635-4f42-af34-fae4db9a1139 · tender

Childcare and early years survey of parents 2017

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

£On request
⏱ 22 Aug 2016
Posted · 123mo agoView details →
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0011cecc-991a-43c0-9749-62938622d24f · awardUpdate

National professional qualification final assessment delivery

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

££2,500,000 — £3,900,000
⏱ 1 Sept 2016
Posted · 124mo agoView details →
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e271d2e3-3edb-4bcb-b287-aebfd8d0a08c · tender

Resource package to support teachers to hold topical classroom debates which help build children’s knowledge and understanding of fundamental british values

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

££25,000 — £50,000
⏱ 1 Aug 2016
Posted · 124mo agoView details →
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b1a4cc69-b3a4-44e0-9449-a710cc0de461 · award

National maths education centre

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

££4,000,000 — £6,100,000
⏱ 12 Sept 2016
Posted · 124mo agoView details →
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5fcb0072-320f-4d25-832c-1178fcf589f6 · awardUpdate

Implementation of achieving excellence areas

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

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

£Up to £123,480
⏱ 25 Jul 2016
Posted · 124mo agoView details →