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)
Home learning environment early years apps competition
The Department will be running a quality assurance exercise to identify and provide an indication of quality for early year's apps of high educational value, so that parents can ma
G-cloud lot 3 - cloud support
Stone Cloud Managed Networking Support
Wifi off-boarding purchase
Purchase of existing WiFi Hardware
High potential initial teacher training and leadership development programme - early engagement
The Department for Education (DfE) is exploring options for the future delivery of a high potential initial teacher training and leadership development programme for cohorts starti
Assessment service
The ultimate aim of the assessment service is to provide one place for internal/external users to develop, deliver, administer, conduct and report on national assessments. Internal
Funding and contracting service (FCS) systems agile development
The Education and Skills Funding Agency is responsible for delivering all school and Further Education funding in England. The Funding and Contracting Service (FCS) is undergoing a
T level professional development
The Department is running a market engagement event to explore commercial options for a national delivery partner to design and deliver T Level Professional Development (TLPD). TLP
POst-16 institutions omnibus survey 2019
Expressions of interest are sought for delivering a nationally representative cross-sectional survey of post-16 institutions and private training providers. The aims of the Post-16
SBRI: higher education open data, digital tools for prospective students
Across the UK, prospective higher education students often make uninformed decisions about where and what to study. The competition's aim is to ensure prospective students have acc
Centre of excellence for modern foreign languages pedagogy
The Authority is seeking to procure the establishment of a Centre of Excellence to implement the Programme. In summary, the CoE will become a locus of expertise in the MFL pedagogi
National centre for computer education lots 1 -3
The purpose of the National Centre of Computing Education and Associated Programmes is to support and improve the provision of computing education in England's state-funded schools
Fees and expenses
The service should provide the following high level requirements: A web-based system that IEE's can access to fill in personal details that are required by HMRC RTI system A system
English hubs training centre
The Department for Education is planning to procure an organisation to deliver an English Hubs Training Centre. The purpose of the English Hubs Training Centre is to train a networ
Item bank 2018-2020
Item bank database to support delivery of the National Curriculum Assessments and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the test development process. The Item Bank is a web-b
Governance development programme
We want to gauge industry appetite for development and delivery of training for governors and trustees. We are proposing to procure services via several lots. The permutation and n
Levy paying employer behaviour
As part of DfE's ongoing evaluation of the Apprenticeship reforms, we are interested in expanding our evidence base. In particular, we want to focus on: • how levy paying employers
Splunk enterprise security (SIEM)
Splunk Enterprise Security is a SIEM that provides insight into machine data generated from security technologies such as network, endpoint, access, malware, vulnerability and iden
Adviser in bradford
The authority has recently been placed in intervention and is starting implementation of its improvement plan. The Adviser will provide a clear and sustained focus on the areas for
T level professional development (TLPD) evaluation
The department requires the research to be designed around undertaking a process evaluation of Phase I of TLPD, and to provide some indication of change in providers' confidence ah
Teacher assessment - external moderators
Each year, the STA assesses the rigour of moderation activities carried out by local authorities (LAs) across the country, ensuring robust moderation processes are in place for sub