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)
Trialling framework STA 0166-01
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
Initial training for educational psychologists
The aim of this agreement is to ensure a steady flow of new student trainee entrants to the EP workforce. The DfE requires providers to deliver a Health and Care Professions Counci
Digital solution for integrated multi-academy trust (MAT) information - discovery
MAT discovery project to explore how to make best use of publicly available information about MATs to facilitate a common understanding of the role trusts play in the education sec
Teacher mobility in challenging areas research
Following criteria (equally weighted) • Evidence of knowledge of the teacher supply landscape and related policies. • Evidence of experience and technical ability of designing, con
Business analysis service
Contract award notice for supporting Business Analysis services
Media planning services for the government's teacher recruitment marketing campaign
Call-off via the Crown Commercial Services Communications Services Framework (RM3796) for the delivery of Media Planning services for the government's teacher recruitment campaign,
National assessment and accreditation system (NAAS) for child and family social workers: future content development and maintenance service (reference: ITT 30426)
The Department is appointing a Content Partner to generate, validate and maintain assessment content for the NAAS to support national rollout scheduled to commence in spring 2020.
Furniture- fixtures and fittings
The Department for Education (DfE) is looking to procure a framework agreement for the supply, installation and delivery of furniture, and fittings. It is envisaged that the framew
Technical assessment of home learning environment early years applications
The Department for Education (DfE) intends to undertake an Expression of Interest (EOI) process to procure the services of an organisation to undertake the technical assessment of
Early years local government programme evaluation
Expressions of interest are sought for a contractor to conduct an evaluation of the Department of Education's Local Government Programme, comprising the Early Years Social Mobility
Contract for omnibus survey of school teachers and senior leaders
The Contractor shall use all reasonable endeavours to achieve the following aims: • Design and deliver a survey vehicle for biannual research with classroom teachers and senior lea
Department for education - lot 4.1 corporate finance and financial strategy - multi-academy trust closure
A dedicated project team in the Department for Education is supporting this rebrokerage and closure project. The Department is seeking to secure external financial and insolvency e
Home learning environment proposition testing
The Communications Directorate at the Department for Education required services to deliver qualitative research with families of children aged 0-5, with an emphasis on lower socio
Provision of inclusion expert resource for the standards and testing agency
The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is looking to recruit a pool of Inclusion Experts with a range of specialisms to ensure that Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 national curriculum
National computing school centred initial teacher training (scitt)
The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for children's services and education, including early years, schools, higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wi
Market engagement events, designated senior lead for mental health training
The Department for Education (DfE) is exploring the different training content and delivery mechanisms needed to produce a high quality, evidence-based training package that will b
Enterprise cloud digital transformation services
eSynergy Digital Transformation services use GDS service standard techniques to identify user needs, embed user research, help design your end to end services and improve software
Children's social care board secretariat and data collection
The Adoption and Special Guardianship Leadership Board (ASGLB) was established in 2014 as the Adoption Leadership Board. Its aim was to provide leadership to the adoption system an
Register of external experts re-open feb 2019
The Secretary of State for Education (Contracting Authority) acting through the Department for Education (DfE) is inviting bids from individuals and organisations to create a regis
Prospero group - call off contract for SVTP service B - acclimatisation and retention
Spain's Visiting Teachers Programme Service B, Acclimatisation and Retention Stage - Acclimatisation and Retention stage Specifics to key deliverables: Phase 1 - pre-arrival suppor