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 (2286)
Research to examine the need for a toolkit to support part 4 of "keeping children safe in education"
Developing 4/5 scenarios related to Part 4 of "keeping children safe in education" and completing qualitative interviews with schools. The final output will present the areas where
NFC98 mobile voice and data services
Mobile voice and data service, Call-Off from RM1045 Lot 6. Mobile phone with data bucket for 4,000 DfE Users.
Provision of braille quality assurance resource for the standards and testing agency
The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is looking to appoint Braille experts to support Quality Assurance processes within STA in relation to modified Braille versions of key stage
Provision of quality assurance resource for the standards and testing agency
The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is looking to recruit a pool of proof readers to work with us to improve and assure the quality of our assessment materials including nationa
Children's services commissioner in stoke on trent
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
National retraining scheme online training
See Attachments for full description. The Department for Education is considering undertaking a procurement exercise to find a supplier(s) to implement an Alpha project for online
Vinci TFM - located portfolio
Provision of total facilities management (TFM) to the LocatED administered Free School portfolio, circa 85 properties. Delivery of Security, statutory compliance and Landlord's TFM
Implementation end support for microsoft dynamics NAV, microsoft's premium enterprise resourcing planning application.
): implementation end support for Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft's premium Enterprise Resourcing Planning application.
Management and administration of the matrix standard
See Attachments for full description and further information. The matrix Standard was launched in 2002 and is the intellectual property of the Secretary of State for Education and
Technical advisory framework
STA is looking to procure a pool of independent technical experts to provide expertise and considered advice to STA, to ensure rigorous scrutiny of the technical aspects of the Tes
Schools experience of hosting traninees and employing newly qualified teachers project
Research project to develop a detailed understanding of the possible demands and impacts on schools of hosting trainee teachers and employing newly qualified teachers (NQTs). Each
Post 16 choices segmentation insight audit
The Communications Directorate at the Department for Education (DfE) seeks to understand the underlying attitudes and influences that shape how young people in England make choices
Discovery into how dfe user journeys are presented online
Requirement for a specialist delivery partner with experience delivering digital services. Ability to meet users' needs in line with the GDS Digital Service Standard to deliver dis
GA360 web analytics
GA360 Licence and related professional services from Merkle.
ICT2018-045 RM1045/DfE breakfix
Local Area Network - Core switch & firewall break/fix replacement
Calculate funding service (CFS) systems agile development
The CFS service line needs to be enhanced and developed to meet the evolving business and policy needs and interface with other ESFA systems. This may require the spectrum of GDS a
Digital lifecycle management for manage your education and skills funding (myesf)
The Funding and Allocation Service is looking for an agile partner to help develop new products and reshape mature systems to deliver our digital transformation. MYESF is the exter
SQL casework management system
The Contractor has agreed to provide support and maintenance to the Software Support Service for the Legis casework management database. This will include up to 10 'read only' user
Trialling framework STA 0166-03
Suppliers successfully joined DfE/STA's via a Supplier framework (STA0166 Trialling Framework) to ensure that Trials and Sampling assessments were managed successfully. Suppliers o
Trialling framework STA 0166-02
Suppliers successfully joined DfE/STA's via a Supplier framework (STA0166 Trialling Framework) to ensure that Trials and Sampling assessments were managed successfully. Suppliers o