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)
Pwc RM3745 MCF call-off order form - direct award - iot wave two (con_4781)
PwC to produce a financial model to be used during the IoT Wave Two competition and provide advice/guidance in regards to Wave Two based on previous knowledge and experience of the
Cyber incident management (con_5108)
Provision of a break glass incident management system
ECSC associates (ecscas) - supporting ITT market regulation and development (con_7016)
To support the day-to-day activities of the Market Regulation team, providing knowledge and quality assurance. to help ensure ITT provision is in line with the ITT criteria. To sup
STA-0207 Ex1 item bank escrow (con_5216)
In order to provide an assured level of business continuity, the Department for education (DfE) require the supplier to carry out the deposit of code and test development data from
Experian - LRS (con_5107)
Renewal of: Absolute Movers, Absolute Contacts and ConsumerView for the LRS Service
Rapid evidence assessment on social mobility and housing; social security and tax; criminal justice system (con_4777)
Produce a piece of work on child poverty and social mobility; and assess evidence on the overlap between social mobility, poverty and inequality
Atlassian licenses and subscription (con_6030)
Renewal of licenses for Jira and Confluence for 3 business areas - Apprenticeships, Digital, DfE Sign-In
Children's services adviser in east riding of yorkshire authority (con_4773)
The Department has appointed an Adviser to provide intervention and improvement support in East Riding of Yorkshire authority. The authority has recently been placed in interventio
A review of the impact of assistive technologies in education for students with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) (con_5315)
The Department for Education's Education Technology Strategy, Realising the potential for technology in education (published April 2019), announced 10 EdTech Challenges designed to
STA-0162 fees and expenses (con_5211)
Provision of a fees and expenses payment system
STA-0166-04-01 phonics variation trialling (con_5210)
Phonics variation trialling
Rapid evidence assessment (con_5314)
The Commission is required to lay an annual report before Parliament and is also planning several pieces of work for which it does not currently have in-house expertise. The requir
Children's services adviser in gloucestershire (con_4772)
The adviser will support the authority in continuing to develop and implement robust, realistic and achievable plans to improve its children's social care services, in particular t
CIF 2021 (con_7158)
Assess a large number of Condition Improvement Fund applications made by academies. The DfE expect assessors to utilise their own professional expertise and specialist knowledge to
Delivery of subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) training courses
The Department for Education (DfE) is seeking multiple providers to design and deliver Subject Knowledge Enhancement (SKE) courses supporting recruitment to Initial Teacher Trainin
Teach in further education (FE) - online service alpha and beta
Development of the 'Teach in FE' service is a necessary step to attract more teachers into further education (FE), providing a 'public face' to many initiatives - Taking Teaching F
National careers service evaluation
The aim of this project is to gain a robust, up-to-date understanding of the Value for Money of the National Careers Service. This work will inform the re-procurement process of th
Assessment service - beta - STA 0227 - contract extension
The existing contract for Assessment Service Beta has been extended for additional period of 5 months and the overall value of the agreement has been uplifted. The existing agreeme
Digital RBA - STA 0226 - contract extension
The existing contract for Digital RBA On-line assessment has been extended for additional period of 3 months and the overall value of the agreement has been uplifted. The existing
Wave 2 - data, SIM & config
Purchase of data provision for up to 150,000 routers with technology types including support of 2G/UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA/HSPA/LTE/4G. Initial order of 5,000 single network SIMs and suff