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)
Content design - in action (con_29520)
Develop advanced teamwork skills for designing content across complex digital products and services.
Senior management team crisis simulation events (con_29223)
2 x Cyber Crisis Simulation events utilising the NPSA approved simulation.
ACPP EWG expert by experience
Specification for expert by experience EWG member: The Writing Group will be responsible for drafting and refining the Advanced Child Protection Practice Standards, drawing on inpu
Con_27599 - children's social care private dashboard early adopters scheme: pilot CMS API
The Department is launching an early adopter pilot scheme as part of its work to modernise Children's Social Care (CSC) data collections. The goal is to address longstanding ineffi
Content store contract
Foundation model AI has the potential to transform education. The capability of large language models are in part determined by the content that they draw from. Through hackathons
Adoption support fund extension april - june 2026
This is a Corrigendum notice for the Adoption and Special Guardian Support Fund to extend the current contract. The Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund (ASGSF) has been
Supporting holocaust survivor testimony in teaching
The Department for Education (the department) is looking for a provider to help schools with fulfilling the ambition for young people to hear recorded survivor testimony by enablin
Post graduate award in policy government policy fast stream
This Direct Award is to King's College London for the delivery of the King's College London Post Graduate Award for the 2025 Government Policy Fast Stream cohort with teaching of t
Writer services for training content development
This contract is for writing services relating to the framework development of training content with a particular focus on supporting experienced teachers and leaders. This work is
Tackling antisemitism in education innovation fund - competition notice
THIS IS AN INVITATION TO SUBMIT APPLICATIONS IN A COMPETITIVE GRANT PROCESS The Department for Education is pleased to announce the launch of a new grant funding opportunity under
Schools property flood resilience: regional providers (design and build)
The Schools Water Strategy is an “invest to save” strategy aimed at reducing the risk of flooding in schools. This planned procurement is to enable the expansion of the current Pro
Older buildings research (OBR) professional engineering expert advice role
The Department for Education (DfE) requires further specialist technical services from an existing supplier to support the final phase of the Older Building Research (OBR) project.
Benchmarking tool for schools - pilot 25/26
DfE are seeking a Supplier to develop a benchmarking application that can be accessed directly by schools. This should allow schools to easily access price comparison across a key
Development of sixth form college, thorpe park, leeds
The contracting authority, The Dept for Education, has entered into a public contract by way of direct award for the Agreement for lease and development of sixth form college at Th
NEPRO3 - analysis of the dfe call for evidence on safeguarding in out-of-school (con_29237)
To analyse the response to the Call for Evidence and produce resources to help understand and present the viewpoints raised in the response.
Perspective license (con_29279)
Business contract for perspective license.
Qualitative research to meet recommendation 9 of the national audit on group-based child sexual exploitation and abuse (con_28993)
Qualitative research to meet recommendation 9 of the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse to the Department for Education.
Advanced child protection practice expert writing group (con_29042)
Advanced Child Protection Practice Standards, Expert Writing Group Member
Dun & bradstreet financial analytics 2026 (con_29040)
Financial Analytics Contract to enable Commercial to monitor Supplier Financial Health.
Research in practice STAR testing (con_28995)
To undertake a formative evaluation of the usability, reliability, and value of the STAR tool for assessing the quality of social work supervision.