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)
National assessment and accreditation system (NAAS) for child and family social workers: future content development and maintenance service.
The Department is looking to appoint an assessment Content Partner to generate, validate and maintain content for the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS) to support
Provision of professional services to inform GDPR implementation / data architect challenges
Profession services that will inform continued DfE transformation work to ensure General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliancy and address data architecture challenges acros
Professional services to inform finance keyholder function
To establish a Finance Keyholder Function with the aim of increasing assurance in financial information contained within departmental business cases.
Regional schools buying hub pilot provider for north west (NW) region
The Department is Piloting the Schools' Buying Hub concept in two regions of England (North West and South West) with the potential to roll out more hubs nationality if it proves s
English hubs programme - phonics adviser
Expert phonics advisory services.
Web development for the schools financial benchmarking service
Finalise 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 support, maintenance and developme
The relationship between disability and social mobility - research project
The Social Mobility Commission is inviting proposals for research to understand the relationship between disability and social mobility. This research forms part of the Social Mobi
Teaching and leadership innovation fund (TLIF) round 1 - teach first
"The Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund (TLIF), announced by the Secretary of State for Education in October 2016, aims to improve pupil outcomes in priority areas by: • Stimu
Teaching and leadership innovation fund (TLIF) round 1 - teacher development trust
"The Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund (TLIF), announced by the Secretary of State for Education in October 2016, aims to improve pupil outcomes in priority areas by: • Stimu
Teaching and leadership innovation fund (TLIF) round 1 - myscience.co.ltd - now known as STEM learni
"The Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund (TLIF), announced by the Secretary of State for Education in October 2016, aims to improve pupil outcomes in priority areas by: • Stimu
Teaching and leadership innovation fund (TLIF) round 1 - ruth miskin training
One of the eight providers awarded a contract in TLIF Round 1, Ruth Miskin Training, is delivering a two-year literacy professional development programme based upon Ruth Miskin Tra
Teaching and leadership innovation fund (TLIF) round 1 - institute of physics
"The Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund (TLIF), announced by the Secretary of State for Education in October 2016, aims to improve pupil outcomes in priority areas by: • Stimu
Teaching and leadership innovation fund (TLIF) round 1 - the institute for teaching (ark schools)
"The Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund (TLIF), announced by the Secretary of State for Education in October 2016, aims to improve pupil outcomes in priority areas by: • Stimu
Teaching and leadership innovation fund (TLIF) round 1 - edisonlearning
The Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund (TLIF), announced by the Secretary of State for Education in October 2016, aims to improve pupil outcomes in priority areas by: • Stimul
Teaching and leadership innovation fund (TLIF) round 1 - anvil education limited
"The Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund (TLIF), announced by the Secretary of State for Education in October 2016, aims to improve pupil outcomes in priority areas by: • Stimu
Dfe digital service transformation pipeline delivery programme
Provision of a delivery partner to work with us on discovery, prototyping and building digital services, as part of the department's digital transformation of services.
Delivery of the teacher sabbatical pilot
See 'Attachments' for full description and further information. The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to engage with the market with a view to shaping the procureme
2019 Holiday activities and food pilot
The Department for Education is exploring options to award grant funding to organisations to pilot local coordination of free holiday provision (healthy food and enriching activiti
Digitally enabled assessments- service line
Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) is a new assessment that will be taken when pupils enter school (Reception age 4/5). The data will be used to create a baseline from which progr
NCA tools g-cloud 7 call off to TSO
The administration of the National Curriculum Assessments is via a website known as "NCA Tools" and is accessed via https://ncatools.education.gov.uk/ NCA Tools is a web based syst