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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

Open4Awarded1,629Closed589

Top suppliers

Last 5 years
  1. 1

    TILBURY DOUGLAS CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

    4 winslatest 25 Aug 2026CH 00303359

    £22bn

  2. 2

    MCLAREN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

    4 winslatest 06 Oct 2026CH 05377750

    £22bn

  3. 3

    Kings College London

    4 winslatest 23 Sept 2026

    £18m

  4. 4

    Bloom Procurement Services Ltd

    4 winslatest 17 Jan 2026

    £171,768

  5. 5

    WILLMOTT DIXON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

    3 winslatest 02 Jul 2026CH 00768173

    £22bn

  6. 6

    KIER CONSTRUCTION LIMITED

    3 winslatest 25 Aug 2026CH 02099533

    £22bn

  7. 7

    MCAVOY MODULAR OFFSITE LIMITED

    3 winslatest 10 Jul 2026CH NI008762

    £15bn

  8. 8

    King's College London

    3 winslatest 05 Jan 2026CH RC000297

    £4m

  9. 9

    Mutual Ventures Ltd

    3 winslatest 13 Jul 2026

    £4m

  10. 10

    Mott MacDonald

    3 winslatest 01 Oct 2026

    £4m

What they buy

By CPV category
  • Education & 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

8 forecast

Tender activity

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All contracts (2285)

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85ae670d-1afe-422e-a58e-09bf84766369 · award

Teachers' student loan reimbursement scheme: alpha

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Teachers' Student Loan Reimbursement scheme seeks to reimburse eligible teachers of the student loan payments they have made since the 2018/19 academic year. The Department nee

£Up to £291,000
⏱ 21 Aug 2018
Posted · 96mo agoView details →
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426c5dc8-72d4-4f2d-9aef-b52002351ff3 · award

Process evaluation of support for T- level industry placements in 18/19

Department For Education
goodsSME friendly

A contractor is sought to undertake a process evaluation of support for T-level Industry Placements in 18/19. The aims of the evaluation are to: • Understand if the CDF is being im

£Up to £66,112
⏱ 16 Nov 2018
Posted · 96mo agoView details →
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85f60d13-d779-4e38-b181-68170b9abf62 · tender

Exploring homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people

Department For Education
goodsSME friendly

In order to inform the development of policy on housing and support services for homeless lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in England, the Government Equalities

££40,000 — £60,000
⏱ 26 Nov 2018
Posted · 96mo agoView details →
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8d2693db-2e3f-450c-8c19-67eb49178de8 · tenderAmendment

Conversion therapy among lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people - evidence review and qualitative study

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

In order to inform the development of potential policy options to end the practice of conversion therapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people in the UK, the Go

££40,000 — £60,000
⏱ 19 Nov 2018
Posted · 96mo agoView details →
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e862e732-2286-4991-bfa2-53601330fc57 · award

Schools financial benchmarking: handover

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Contractor has agreed to continue the development of the public beta school benchmarking website and work as part of the scrum team to prepare for the move to a post-live suppo

£Up to £90,000
⏱ 31 Oct 2018
Posted · 96mo agoView details →
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4a7ec27c-87ca-45b0-a430-c3f27d57be57 · tender

National colleges process evaluation

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Government has awarded around £80m to establish four employer-led National Colleges (Creative and Cultural, Digital Skills, Nuclear, and High Speed Rail). Labour market changes

£On request
⏱ 20 Nov 2018
Posted · 96mo agoView details →
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f5bdfe52-6893-4cb9-8a24-bd766b072fad · awardUpdate

General qualifications logistics and national curriculum assessments (september 2018 to august 2020)

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

This contract covers all aspects of delivery for the Standards and Testing Agency's (STA) General Qualifications Yellow Label Service. The "Yellow Label service" is a logistics ser

£Up to £20,000,000
⏱ 17 Aug 2018
Posted · 96mo agoView details →
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f812bbb9-cfc0-47e7-acd5-8ca2ed078013 · awardUpdate

Curriculum programme pilots research

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Expressions of interest are sought to conduct research with teachers and heads of subject in schools piloting complete curriculum programmes. This research will help the Department

£Up to £93,205
⏱ 17 Nov 2018
Posted · 96mo agoView details →
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fe064acc-4c1a-4a22-ab5c-32824be1ae8c · awardUpdate

Longitudinal survey of teachers - feasibility study

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

We require a feasibility study to assess the viability of such a longitudinal study and explore the methodological and other issues that will ensure it most effectively meets the D

£Up to £70,000
⏱ 15 Nov 2018
Posted · 96mo agoView details →
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577c4d97-0b93-477b-a81d-9ede051573c6 · tender

Evaluation of FE college mergers

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Expressions of interest are sought to quantitatively assess the performance of Further Education (FE) merged colleges against pre-merger performance and overall FE college sector p

£On request
⏱ 12 Nov 2018
Posted · 96mo agoView details →
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b0cc95bf-4f05-4628-af1c-7a2843004b98 · tender

Register of external experts

Department for Education
servicesNorth EastSME friendly

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

£On request
⏱ 16 Nov 2018
Posted · 96mo agoView details →
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e52cabab-0178-4ec2-8d78-3dc8c1541b04 · awardUpdate

ESF 2014 - 2020 programme community grants

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

The Contracting Authority in this procurement is the Secretary of State for Education acting through the Education and Skills Funding Agency (the "ESFA"). The ESFA is an executive

£Up to £33,909,011
⏱ 23 Nov 2018
Posted · 97mo agoView details →
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4f0aa60b-0d61-492d-9028-d1e6f8cecfc4 · tenderAmendment

Beyond the academic - extracurricular activities, soft skills, networks, and social mobility

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

See 'Attachments' for full description. The Social Mobility Commission is inviting proposals for research to understand how inequalities in extracurricular participation, networks,

£Up to £35,000
⏱ 16 Nov 2018
Posted · 97mo agoView details →
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7c13809f-2efe-4ff4-9685-612167759f63 · awardUpdate

Evaluation of social work teaching partnerships

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

A call for expressions of interest for the evaluation of the Social Work Teaching Partnerships. The small scale evaluation will inform sustainability planning and seek to identify

£Up to £86,623
⏱ 3 Nov 2018
Posted · 97mo agoView details →
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d562a577-7859-4fa4-842f-e2a3a4e6009c · award

Data hub - data architecture and design, data migration and data management services

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Professional services that will provide specialist technical services including Data Architecture and Design; Solutions Architecture; Data Migration and Management (including Datab

£Up to £1,400,000
⏱ 28 Sept 2018
Posted · 97mo agoView details →
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7a129e7e-dae0-4cd7-be6a-8f6a64afc036 · tender

Tackling child exploitation

Department For Education
servicesNorth EastSME friendly

The Department for Education is looking to fund a service from April 2019, for three years, to provide support local areas to build their capacity and capability to respond effecti

£Up to £1,900,000
⏱ 19 Dec 2018
Posted · 97mo agoView details →
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9c8fd5c2-8260-4e8d-9169-d4d073a4042f · awardUpdate

Teaching and leadership innovation fund round 2 lot 2

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Accelerate programme aims to provide sustained expert support for ECTs to equip them with the tools to succeed - to improve ECT teaching quality, retention, and pupil attainment. T

£Up to £4,291,272
⏱ 9 May 2018
Posted · 97mo agoView details →
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15fdc7cf-6144-4621-9dd7-d1d4777e014b · awardUpdate

Claims handling contract

Department For Education
services

Claims handling service for the Risk Protection Arrangement.

£Up to £873,265
⏱ 10 Aug 2018
Posted · 97mo agoView details →
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f996fb8c-7cb5-4069-9dff-00e3dc5fe30f · tenderAmendment

Illustration support and design services for dfe assessment materials

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

This Invitation to Tender (ITT) has been issued by The Standards and Testing Agency (STA), on behalf of the Department for Education, to a number of suppliers to carry out a compet

£Up to £15,000
⏱ 16 Nov 2018
Posted · 97mo agoView details →
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bee13ba7-67f8-4905-a33a-15b63d4c1f81 · awardUpdate

Service design team to deliver an alpha for the buying for schools digital platform (optional beta)

Department For Education
servicesSME friendly

Provision of a service design partner to prototype and test potential solutions with end users to demonstrate that an accessible service can be built to meet user needs.

£Up to £309,000
⏱ 30 Jul 2018
Posted · 97mo agoView details →