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)
SEND initial training for educational psychologists (ITEP) - UEA award notice
Contract Award Notice for the training provision for Educational Psychologists in the East of England via University of East Anglia.
Torbay commissioner
The Commissioner will play a high profile role in a challenging political and delivery environment. He or she will bring extensive and proven skills in children's social care trans
Early years experts - EYFS reforms implementation - tranche 2
The revised Early Years Foundation Stage(EYFS) will become statutory from September 2021 and will impact all early years providers in England. One of the ways we are supporting pro
Delivery support (SEND: targeted)
Notice of award for the Delivery Support contract contract to provide delivery support to local areas in embedding reforms to services for children and young people who have specia
SEND initial training for educational psychologists - normid - 2019-25 cohort
Contract Award Notice for the training provision for Educational Psychologists in the East of England via University of Manchester
SEND initial training for educational psychologists - SEEL - 2019-25 cohort
Contract Award Notice for the training provision for Educational Psychologists in the East of England via University College London
Durbar supports in OAB
Provision of durbar plates for Old Admiralty Building.
NTP delivery manger
Delivery manager services provided in support of the National Tutoring Programme.
ETL tooling
Extract, Transform and Load tool that will support the development of efficient, scalable and automated data ingestion pipelines ready for production, and enabling quality assured
User research participant recruitment and incentive payments
User Research participants to take part in regular user research, which supports the digital transformation programme. DfE need the supplier to be able to reliably deliver particip
Alfresco one license renewal
Alfresco One Licences for the Department for Education (DfE)
Dfe service delivery capability- south england
Service Delivery capabilities to work alongside our in-house digital teams and other suppliers, to manage the development, delivery and communication of effective, user-focused dig
Braille specialist quality assurance resource
STA require Braille Experts to provide Quality Assurance for the assessment they develop. Application is by submitting the attached Invitation to Tender
EDAP delivery and operations
EDAP is a live, operational data and analytical platform currently supporting DfE
Huddle - document collaboration
The Services to be provided by the Supplier are: - 900 x Annual Huddle Official Licences - 4 TB Storage - API calls
ECSC associates (ecscas) - supporting ITT market regulation & development
ECSC Associates (ECSCAs) - Supporting ITT Market Regulation & Development
ECSC associates (ecscas) - supporting ITT market regulation & development
ECSC Associates (ECSCAs) - Supporting ITT Market Regulation & Development
ECSC associates (ecscas) - supporting ITT market regulation & development
ECSC Associates (ECSCAs) - Supporting ITT Market Regulation & Development
Developing resources to aid training and awareness raising of T levels among school teachers and careers advisers
The Contractor has agreed to Develop Resources and related work to aid training and awareness raising of T Levels among school teachers and careers advisers on the terms and condit
Get help with tech - 4G routers wave 5
Provision of 14,000 4G Router devices to enable school children to access online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.