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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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3dd42a1f-9d42-489b-bc4f-3726cdf75afe · tender

Teacher recruitment support service (TRSS)

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

This contract is for the Teacher Recruitment Support Service (TRSS), an advisory service that supports both candidates to apply to initial teacher training (ITT) and teachers to re

££9,000,000 — £12,000,000
⏱ 14 Apr 2016
Posted · 128mo agoView details →
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535228d3-a081-478e-9770-043a3871ec66 · tender

Provision of quality assurance resource for the standards and testing agency

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is looking to appoint resource to support Quality Assurance processes within STA in relation to key stage 1 and key stage 2 national curricul

££50,000 — £85,000
⏱ 4 Apr 2016
Posted · 129mo agoView details →
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dfc160d1-4b9e-4f60-bcdb-3a9de50363a1 · awardUpdate

Fosterline contract for england

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Please note: Because the DfE has issued a revised evaluation template, (Annex F of the ITT) the deadline for bidders to respond has been extended by two additional working days to

££300,000 — £600,000
⏱ 29 Mar 2016
Posted · 129mo agoView details →
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584fda1a-b676-4f16-821c-b175e28b6b8d · tender

Governance recruitment service

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Background: The Government is committed to delivering education excellence everywhere. We want every child to attend a good school to get the best start in life and enable them to

£Up to £3,710,000
⏱ 15 Apr 2016
Posted · 129mo agoView details →
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73667ad7-2d95-4ee5-b4be-3eea1c21a522 · awardUpdate

Workforce support – schools

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

££425,000 — £850,000
⏱ 31 Mar 2016
Posted · 129mo agoView details →
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c6856570-23e7-4f74-a1a0-c349e2d80699 · awardUpdate

Contract to provide support for children and young people with dyslexia and other specific learning difficulties

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

££375,000 — £750,000
⏱ 21 Mar 2016
Posted · 129mo agoView details →
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b9e3a84b-a16b-4fdb-944a-d0563d035439 · tender

Support to enable effective participation of young people in special educational needs and disability decision-making.

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

££250,000 — £500,000
⏱ 21 Mar 2016
Posted · 129mo agoView details →
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622496eb-84c1-4071-9784-4448ffc17aa6 · awardUpdate

Contract to provide delivery support to early years providers, schools and post-16 providers to improve outcomes for children and young people with sensory impairment.

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

££225,000 — £450,000
⏱ 21 Mar 2016
Posted · 129mo agoView details →
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e2f3bbe4-25c5-4bbb-8848-91aa5df6ba75 · award

Contract to provide special educational needs and / or disabilities support for the further education sector in england

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

££250,000 — £500,000
⏱ 21 Mar 2016
Posted · 129mo agoView details →
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696bb0dc-a956-4c72-9e87-00a255743c4a · award

Contract to support the improvement of services for young offenders who have special educational needs and disabilities.

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

££100,000 — £200,000
⏱ 21 Mar 2016
Posted · 129mo agoView details →
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84ea8476-43f4-4935-a2cc-ee423778e76b · tender

SIF 3 developer framework: functional services

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for education and children’s services in England. It works to achieve a highly educated society in which opportunity is equal for

££30,000 — £50,000
⏱ 29 Feb 2016
Posted · 129mo agoView details →
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db987548-9c78-4581-ad0b-fabda89bbfec · tenderAmendment

Educational and children's social care professionals

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

To be sourced and invited to respond to opportunities published via the 'Education and Children's Social Care' Dynamic Purchasing System (ECSC DPS) you will need to be an approved

£Up to £6,500,000
⏱ 30 Mar 2026
Posted · 129mo agoView details →
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16c36a52-b1a2-4c5c-bacf-2685a259e094 · tender

Post 16 choices by background

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (www.gov.uk/smcpc) is inviting proposals for a data analysis exercise which explores how post 16 choices relate to prior attainment

££10,000 — £20,000
⏱ 15 Feb 2016
Posted · 130mo agoView details →
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9f19452f-1a8c-4afd-86fa-aa28c8fa47df · tender

Review of the evidence on ethnicity, gender and social mobility

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission (www.gov.uk/smcpc) is inviting proposals for a data and literature review on ethnicity and gender and social mobility. The provider

££5,000 — £10,000
⏱ 15 Feb 2016
Posted · 130mo agoView details →
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722da614-fbac-4085-9a1b-61ee0a4842ef · tender

Mandarin teaching expansion programme

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Background: China is a country of huge strategic importance to the UK and education plays a key role in developing that wider relationship with important economic, educational and

£Up to £10,000,000
⏱ 29 Feb 2016
Posted · 130mo agoView details →
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0b744c11-99ab-45a0-9e52-641c448ccbd7 · tender

Teacher reference group vacancies

Department For Education
London

The Department for Education is looking to appoint classroom teachers to a Teacher Reference Group that will act as an advisory body for Ministers and policy makers. If you are int

£On request
⏱ 22 Jan 2016
Posted · 131mo agoView details →
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dd133733-3a4c-4096-bb3e-572639ab698f · tender

Grant for the development of undergraduate degree courses with ‘opt-in’ qualified teacher status (QTS). 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 mathematics and/or

££1,000 — £10,000
⏱ 19 Feb 2016
Posted · 131mo agoView details →
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e5a7a9db-1135-4f72-9354-bc91c3bf0d47 · tender

Phonics roadshows

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
servicesSME friendly

The Department for Education is inviting proposals from organisations to work with the Department and the eight phonics partnerships to design and deliver up to 10 local stakeholde

££30,000 — £50,000
⏱ 12 Jan 2016
Posted · 131mo agoView details →
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b589c44c-c45d-4bdc-975d-abb4b7ed1ab0 · tender

Valuation of academy land and buildings professional technical support

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
servicesSME friendly

The EFA is required to consolidate the accounts of academy trusts into its own. In order to ensure land and buildings are valued consistently, the EFA commissions its own depreciat

££30,000 — £40,000
⏱ 4 Jan 2016
Posted · 131mo agoView details →
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f1ba28ae-f2ed-4521-b922-680f12cb2d5d · tender

High potential initial teacher training programme rfx 122

DEPARTMENT FOR EDUCATION
servicesSME friendly

The Department for Education’s (DfE) vision is for a highly educated society in which opportunity is more equal for children and young people, no matter what their background or fa

£On request
⏱ 29 Jan 2016
Posted · 131mo agoView details →