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)
Anti-homophobic, biphobic and transphobic bullying fund 2016-2019
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
Safeguarding voluntary and community sector (VCS) grants 2016-18
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.
National poetry recitation competition 2016-17
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
Phonics partnership grants
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
Debating in schools grants 2016-17
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
Book clubs and library membership
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
Research into the impact of family support on access to homeownership for young people in the UK
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
Research into the effectiveness of homeownership schemes internationally and in the UK
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
What can the labour force survey tell us about inter-generational social mobility?
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
Character education grant 2016-17
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
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.
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
Anti-bullying activity in schools and on-line reporting solutions grant
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
Barriers to progress in secondary school
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.
Helping parents to parent
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
Inclusive PE and school sport - grant opportunity
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
Network of school based science CPD providers
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
Social work teaching partnerships expansion – applications for funding from april 2016
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
Family and carer advice line - please note this is a a grant opportunity
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
Education advisers
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
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
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