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)
ESFA dance and drama awards
The Dance and Drama Awards (DaDA) scheme offers an income assessed contribution to tuition fees and living costs for eligible students at private dance and drama institutions in En
Dance and drama awards: approved supplier process
The Dance and Drama Awards (DaDA) scheme offers an income assessed contribution to tuition fees and living costs for eligible students at private dance and drama institutions in En
ESFA agile service delivery
DOS 4 Agile Service Delivery Aggregation for Apprenticeships, Data Science and National Careers Service. This procurement is for the delivery of digital development outcomes for ap
National leaders of education reform - opportunity notice
The Department for Education (DfE) is seeking to appoint a suitably experienced single contractor to support the delivery of the National Leaders of Education (NLE) reforms. The co
Provision of specialist recruiter to source architecture resourcing
Provision for Specialist Recruiter to source Systems Architects
Informatica agile cloud services
To support delivery of DfE Enterprise Data Management & Governance Framework solution. To provide a service to ensure adoption and implementation of data ingestion, validation and
Dfe ESX kit
Purchase of servers
Dfe BT wi-fi vouchers
Wi-Fi vouchers for pupils in need across England.
ESFA - fraud investigation case management system
Implementation of a fraud investigation case management system to replace current method of spreadsheets and sharepoint to enable to the business to build better quality cases when
ESFA - secure file transfer project - tepas call off
Provision of software licences to enable the Department for Education and it's Executive Agency to secure transfer files both internally and externally
DFE contracted content design service
DFE require expert content design provision, creating content for the department to be published on the GOV.UK platform. The work will involve working with colleagues across the de
ESFA - aggregated user centred design
DOS4 procurement for user centred design requirements across National Careers Service, Apprenticeships and Data Science in the ESFA
Data dir data service delivery capability
To allow the Department to flexibly resource the digital contingent of the Data Directorate programme, allowing us to achieve our transformation goals and continue to provide a fir
Data directorate engineering capability build
A development partner to deliver the technical capability to support data transformation work programme for collection of school's data. The transformation programme will cover a m
HTE qualifications review - user design webinar
Design & Hosting of User Research Webinars for HTE Qualifications Review
Research to understand schools' recovery approaches from lost time in education as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic
Expressions of interest are sought to undertake the design and delivery of research to understand schools' approaches to pupils' recovery from lost time in education as a result of
Dfe alfresco one
Alfresco licenses.
Dfe google maps platform
Contract for the provision of digital mapping services.
Dfe data archiving solution
Data Archiving Solution for the DfE.
Erwin data modeller
erwin DM allows organisational stakeholders to discover, understand, govern and socialize data assets to mitigate risk and improve performance. Integrating traditional data governa