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)
Qualifications review consultation and call for evidence analysis
- Carry out analysis of all the responses to the consultation and the call for evidence. We would like a meeting at the beginning of the contract so that we can provide any helpful
Schools buying hubs alpha (and optional beta)
The Schools Commercial Team are looking for a service design partner to prototype and test potential solutions with end users, to demonstrate that an accessible service can be buil
Provider engagement: L2/L3 transition programme
Conduct interviews with at least 40 educational providers, including an even spread of school sixth forms, sixth form colleges and FE colleges - Produce an interim progress report
Hardship grant covid relief jan - mar 2021
This variation is to set out an additional £3.5m funding over a period of 3 months, commencing 1 January 2021. This funding has been awarded to the FFT as part of government's supp
Google maps - 2021
Google Maps platform and APIs
Dfe payments service - secondary BACS supplier
DfE Payments Service - Secondary BACS supplier - provision of payment services for DfE
Enterprise technology services programme-data integration services
Establishing technological foundation for data Integration service common component.
EES BAU and post MVP enhancement
To support a small DfE BAU team, responsible for the running and maintenance of Explore Education Statistics throughout public beta.
The independent review of children's social care branding and website (con_7776)
A contract to design, develop and deliver branding and a website.
RSHE AND SEND virtual regional webinars FOR teachers IN primary AND secondary schools (con_7790)
The development and delivery of eight regional online webinars - 4 primary and 4 secondary - providing information on the new RSHE curriculum, to those working with pupils with SEN
People fit (con_7792)
Outplacement support for exiting colleague
National professional qualification communications testing (con_7793)
National Professional Qualification Communications Testing
Workday learning implementation (con_7785)
Workday was successfully introduced in DfE in June 2020 which implemented Payroll and Human Capital Management (HCM) functionality. Following a successful tendering exercise, Osmii
Controls audit services for the income contingent student loan monetisation programme (con_7787)
ISAE 3402 Type 2 Controls Audit to support the Income Contingent Student Loan Monetisation Programme.
Cyber security self assessment tool for schools (con_7922)
Cyber Security self assessment tool to help schools identify their cyber security posture and make positive changes to identified weaknesses. Will provide the dept with data in ord
Project management services (con_7926)
Project Management services to cover various school projects in England at different stages and scope dealing with site identification, procurement, construction and handover.
BC services partner - harmonisation, CI development, licences and breakfix
Business Central Services Partner - Harmonisation, CI developments, licences, interfaces and support and breakfix
IIP accreditation
Investors in People subscription
Children and young people strategic participation
This notice is for the Contract award for CYP Participation which aims to support disabled children and young people with SEND to influence national and local policy and practice d
Contentful CMS
Contentful CMS professional platform and associated SLA