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)
Data science agile development - BA, user centered design and delivery management services
Agile team of Business Analysts, User Researchers, Interaction Designers, Content Designers, Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters and programme support staff, to work across multiple p
Care leaver covenant for care leavers.
The DfE will be inviting tenders for a delivery partner for the Care Leaver Covenant project. At its simplest the Care Leaver Covenant is a promise made by organisations in the bus
Care leaver covenant for care leavers.
The DfE will be inviting tenders for a delivery partner for the Care Leaver Covenant project. At its simplest the Care Leaver Covenant is a promise made by organisations in the bus
DFE courier services
This contract is for DFE's Courier Service requirements. This is contract is a Direct Award from CCS Framework RM3798.
DFE secure courier services
Contract for the Department for Education's secure Courier Service requirements. Route to market was a Direct Award from CCS Framework RM3798.
Future leaders programme for directors of children's services
In summer 2018, we announced plans to establish a system leadership programme for future and newly appointed Directors of Children's Services (DCSs). The DfE will be seeking propos
International teacher recruitment strategy (discovery)
DfE is seeking a supplier to deliver a discovery project and commence alpha design and delivery, to explore the barriers to international recruitment and a service to address. Ulti
DOS 3 user research capability
User Research capabilities to help the department deliver and continuously improve user-centred education and social care services and to build user research knowledge and capabili
Digital languages mentoring project (beta)
The Department for Education (DfE) is seeking a Provider to deliver the beta phase of the Digital Languages Mentoring Project, building on the 2018-19 alpha pilot, which will encou
2Nd condition data collection - IT solution
The 2nd Condition Data Collection ("CDC2") is a programme to undertake condition surveys of all publicly funded schools and colleges in England. The IT Solution element covered by
Subject experts to create training modules for relationships, sex and health education (RSHE)
Subject Experts to create training modules for Relationships, Sex and Health Education (RSHE) The purpose of the subject matter experts review is to provide children and young peop
Department for education - journal access service
Department for Education's (DfE) intend to undertake a procurement exercise to select a contractor to provide access to electronic journal subscriptions. The DfE funds and publishe
Invitation to tender for the full induction programme, to support early roll-out of the early career framework
The services consist of a range of products including curriculum and materials which have been designed to support the strengthened induction of early career teachers underpinned b
Digital languages mentoring project (digital platform development)
The Department for Education is seeking a provider to deliver an online digital platform as an essential element of the Digital Languages Mentoring Project, which aims to encourage
Proactis supplier relationship management, esourcing, dynamic purchasing systems and
The provision of source-to-contract software to meet the requirements of the Customer, including facilitating the sourcing and management of its 3rd party supplier arrangements and
Early years professional development fund
The Professional Development Fund will support pre-reception early years practitioners to improve their practice in working with very young children between the ages of 2 and 4, to
National retraining scheme - online training service alpha
Design an end to end, GDS/DFE compliant, scalable online training service for the National Retraining Scheme by determining the optimum online learning design and pedagogical appro
Period product provision to schools and post 16 education institutions across england
Service to ensure that period products are available to learners, from January 2020, in Schools and Institutions delivering 16-19 education in England. Intention is to promote equa
SEND futures longitudinal study discovery phase
Expressions of interest are sought for a research project seeking to examine survey response and retention amongst children and young people (CYP) with Special Educational Needs (S
2020 Key stage 2 national curriculum science sampling test and technical pre-test administration
Delivery of the biennial Science Sampling Test (SST) and the Technical Pre-test (TPT) is required at the end of Key Stage 2 in 2020. The contract includes printing, collation, dist