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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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eadbf2c4-ab14-4f70-8b8d-2dc783fd6180 · tender

Anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying fund 2016-2019

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Please note that this is a grant. Building on the success of the Government’s pilot Homophobic, Biphobic and Transphobic (HBT) Bullying programme, which ran between 2015-2016, the

££50,000 — £500,000
⏱ 5 Aug 2016
Posted · 124mo agoView details →
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cf647f7e-26f0-4f92-b85c-f1506fdd651b · awardUpdate

Safeguarding voluntary and community sector (VCS) grants 2016-18

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Please note that this is a grant opportunity. Through the Safeguarding VCS Grant Programme we want to help develop and further our strategic aims to safeguard and protect children.

££100,000 — £250,000
⏱ 29 Jul 2016
Posted · 124mo agoView details →
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7a62746c-b5af-43cb-b749-78b2d57745c7 · tender

National poetry recitation competition 2016-17

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The DfE would like to invite organisations to submit proposals to run a national poetry recitation competition for schools in 2016/17. The competition should aim to support improve

££150,000 — £300,000
⏱ 15 Jul 2016
Posted · 125mo agoView details →
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6056557d-9a4a-4243-b7f3-931142f8e8e6 · tender

Phonics partnership grants

Department For Education
services

The phonics partnership grants are for primary schools that achieve excellence in teaching early reading through systematic synthetic phonics to work with partner schools to improv

££1,000 — £12,000
⏱ 15 Jul 2016
Posted · 125mo agoView details →
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8e96052e-d0cf-4a32-856d-36c39c973cfd · tender

Debating in schools grants 2016-17

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Department for Education wishes to continue to encourage pupils to become competent in the arts of speaking and listening, making presentations and participating in debate. Lea

££100,000 — £175,000
⏱ 11 Jul 2016
Posted · 125mo agoView details →
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d74ed807-f23a-44d6-a570-d95d1a712239 · tender

Book clubs and library membership

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Department for Education is inviting proposals from an organisation or consortium to provide support to state-funded schools with key stage 2 pupils on setting up book clubs fo

££50,000 — £100,000
⏱ 14 Jul 2016
Posted · 125mo agoView details →
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042fe571-7e42-449d-875b-4a5a2c6e9f93 · tender

Research into the impact of family support on access to homeownership for young people in the UK

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Social Mobility Commission is inviting innovative proposals for a piece of research that focuses on the relationship between parental background and young people’s access to ho

££7,500 — £15,000
⏱ 24 Jun 2016
Posted · 126mo agoView details →
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bc2073dd-6616-4a5e-91b8-0cd145b7e930 · tender

Research into the effectiveness of homeownership schemes internationally and in the UK

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (www.gov.uk/smcpc) is inviting proposals for a piece of research into the effectiveness of different homeownership support schemes

££5,000 — £10,000
⏱ 24 Jun 2016
Posted · 126mo agoView details →
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d92b0a88-c15e-4e58-9789-e4c002ffadb5 · tender

What can the labour force survey tell us about inter-generational social mobility?

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (www.gov.uk/smcpc) is inviting proposals for a short piece of analysis exploring the potential of the new social mobility questions

££5,000 — £7,000
⏱ 24 Jun 2016
Posted · 126mo agoView details →
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dc21eb47-506f-4094-8f6d-696c5224d372 · tender

Character education grant 2016-17

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Please note that this is a grant. Building on the success of the 2015-16 Character Education Grants, we are making grant funding available for the 2016-17 academic year to develop

££50,000 — £750,000
⏱ 23 Jun 2016
Posted · 126mo agoView details →
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97b545f1-ce33-4da4-82bb-aab71f49ffdd · tender

Grant funding to develop undergraduate modern foreign language (MFL) degree courses with opt-in initial teacher training (ITT). please note this is for a grant and not a contract.

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Seed-funding is being offered by the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL) to successful bidders to support the rapid development of undergraduate MFL with ‘opt-in’ I

££1,000 — £10,000
⏱ 15 Jul 2016
Posted · 126mo agoView details →
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24134dbe-cba7-4cdb-919b-ef7821add650 · tender

Anti-bullying activity in schools and on-line reporting solutions grant

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Please note that this is a grant opportunity. (a) anti-bullying activity in schools We are interested in developing further innovative and sustainable approaches to preventing and

££100,000 — £250,000
⏱ 24 Jun 2016
Posted · 126mo agoView details →
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c1d94d11-185b-42d1-96b0-67b490f8cff6 · tender

Barriers to progress in secondary school

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Social Mobility Commission (www.gov.uk/smcpc) is inviting proposals for research into barriers to progress in secondary school, focusing predominantly on the poorest children.

££10,000 — £20,000
⏱ 8 Jun 2016
Posted · 126mo agoView details →
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69347af6-03ac-4bb1-8f39-1433aa14d495 · tender

Helping parents to parent

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Social Mobility Commission (www.gov.uk/smcpc) is inviting proposals for research into what can be done in the earliest years of a child’s life, as well as the pre-natal period

££5,000 — £10,000
⏱ 8 Jun 2016
Posted · 126mo agoView details →
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fa4fdf3f-9f20-4779-ab04-e93f10064f67 · tender

Inclusive PE and school sport - grant opportunity

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Please note that this is a grant. We are making grant funding available to kick-start or develop an existing programme that supports inclusion in PE and school sport. We want to en

££250,000 — £300,000
⏱ 9 May 2016
Posted · 127mo agoView details →
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9c9c6118-fb08-4a7b-816f-fec751799ef3 · tender

Network of school based science CPD providers

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Background: The Department for Education is inviting bids for the management and delivery of the network of school based science CPD providers. The Government is committed to make

££7,000,000 — £12,100,000
⏱ 19 May 2016
Posted · 127mo agoView details →
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dbb3b64b-2345-4660-ad5e-a75802f84db0 · tender

Social work teaching partnerships expansion – applications for funding from april 2016

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Government wants to continue to support an approach where teaching partnerships match universities with councils to deliver gold-standard training for social workers - raising stan

£On request
⏱ 23 May 2016
Posted · 127mo agoView details →
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4dac5f6c-ac07-421f-bdd2-478155ac26b9 · tender

Family and carer advice line - please note this is a a grant opportunity

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Department is seeking to fund a voluntary sector organisation to run a national information and advice service for the families and carers of children at risk or involved in th

££472,500 — £560,000
⏱ 3 May 2016
Posted · 128mo agoView details →
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5b019f27-067d-4b27-be84-626b48ebbd96 · tender

Education advisers

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Education advisers will be required to analyse qualification submissions and provide DfE with advice as to whether technical and applied qualifications demonstrate the required cha

£On request
⏱ 26 Apr 2016
Posted · 128mo agoView details →
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155197ac-7ed3-4b85-9fb0-f2b0f4dee717 · award

Contract to support the national award for SEN co-ordination and review the SEN co-ordination role in the early years and post 16 sectors

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

See 'Attachments' for a word version of this description. On 1 September 2014, Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014 took effect, offering simpler, improved and more consist

££75,000 — £150,000
⏱ 18 Apr 2016
Posted · 128mo agoView details →