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)
Item writing framework KS2 science call off STA 0128-25
Suppliers successfully joined DfE/STA's via a Supplier framework (STA-0128 Item Writing Framework) to ensure delivery of Item Writing services for a range of tests. Suppliers on th
DFE home working equipment purchasing portal
The Department for Education ran a competition under Lot 2 of CCS's Technology Products and Associated Services Framework, utilising the simplified competition route. This contract
Free school meals voucher scheme
The Department for Education has appointed a provider of Free School Meals Voucher Scheme. The facility for schools to be able to access supermarket vouchers for use by parents/gua
Contract for the provision of G suite and GCP
The resale of G Suite for business and the resale of Google Cloud Platform to deliver the Maps functionality used by DfE Digital Teams, Google API and supporting authentication ser
Illustrations STA 0241
The services of a specialist illustration supplier in order to procure illustrations to a number of established styles, suitable for inclusion in trialling booklets and live tests,
Trialling & sampling framework call-off, STA 0166-06
The provision of suppliers to carry out trials and sampling exercises for a range of DfE assessments.
Trialling & sampling framework call-off, STA 0166-05
The provision of suppliers to carry out trials and sampling exercises for a range of DfE assessments.
Trialling & sampling framework call-off, STA 0166-04
The provision of suppliers to carry out trials and sampling exercises for a range of DfE assessments.
STA 0239 professional proofing
STA procured the provision of external professional proofing services for: • Proofing and quality assurance review of KS1 and KS2 national curriculum test materials, including elec
Collection programme and KTS devops
Azure DevOps services are required to establish DevOps strategy, provide DevOps support, architecture, provisioning and early life support for the Data Engineering Division, DfE Da
T level professional development
The Department for Education (The Authority) is carrying out this Procurement to select an organisation to design and deliver Phase 2 of a professional development offer for teache
DFE home working equipment purchasing portal
The Department for Education requires a solution to be provided that will allow its staff to purchase home working equipment using a portal and have it delivered to their residenti
National leaders of education reform
The purpose of this market engagement notice is to notify the market of the Department for Education's (DfE) intention to undertake a procurement exercise to appoint a suitably exp
Early years local authority implementation and challenge contract
PLEASE NOTE DUE TO COVID19 OUTBREAK,THE UPCOMING PROCUREMENT FOR EARLY YEARS LOCAL AUTHORITY IMPLEMENTATION AND CHALLENGE CONTRACT IS POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE ...............
Personal impact training
The Department for Education (DfE) is supporting the development of women in its pipeline to posts in the Senior Civil Service (SCS). This activity supports both our ambition to im
National eurydice unit
Contract to carry out the duties of the UK (England, Wales and Northern Ireland) National Eurydice Unit.
UK national europass centre
Contract to carry out the duties of the UK National Europass Centre on behalf of the UK.
Taking teaching further
The department is looking to engage a provider/s to be a national delivery partner to deliver the Taking Teaching Further (TTF) expansion, to support FE providers in recruiting ind
Further education colleges board capability reviews pilot (con_6427)
The FE Colleges Board Reviews Pilot is designed to test the efficacy of increasing the availability of external board capability reviews for the governing boards of FE colleges, an
Further education colleges governor recruitment services pilot (con_6428)
The FE Colleges Governor Recruitment Services Pilot is designed to test the effectiveness of increasing the availability of bespoke governor recruitment services for the governing