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)
Cost drivers in the further education sector
Expressions of interest are sought to undertake fieldwork seeking information on the components of costs at a course level in the Further Education (FE) sector. Please note the dea
Agile development of the 'send data to dfe' service formerly known as data exchange
Overview: Data is vital to the DfE achieving its overall vision of improving educational outcomes. Across DfE there are a number of different systems for data providers to send thi
Project finance services
Project to improve management accounting - including consolidation and reporting. Contractors will delve into the management accounting issues to diagnose problems, design solution
Motor insurance for academies & schools
Motor Insurance for Academies & Schools - broker support
Multiplication tables check (MTC) - live service digital technical partner
OliveJar Digital will complete the outstanding development of the Multiplication Tables Check (MTC) and will then move to supporting the digital services in a live environment in l
ESF community grants
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
ESF skills support FOR THE workforce AND redundancy support
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
Skills support FOR those WHO ARE NOT IN education employment OR training (NEET) OR AT RISK OF becoming NEET
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
Insolvency and legal services to support the insolvency regime for further education and sixth form colleges in england and wales
See Attachments for full description and additional information. The Government is introducing a new insolvency regime for further education (FE) and sixth form colleges in England
ESF skills support for the unemployed
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
Procurement of suppliers of school resource management advisers (srmas)
The Contracting Authority is seeking to procure school resource management advisers (SRMAs) to support the Department for Education's Excellent School Resource Management programme
Understanding the drivers of historic graduate earnings, their evolution through the working lifetime, and forecasting future graduate earnings
The Department for Education ('DfE') has commenced a programme to sell the English Pre-Browne ('Plan 1') Income Contingent Repayment ("ICR") loan book. These loans were made availa
Teacher workload survey 2019
Expressions of interest are sought to conduct the second wave of the Teacher Workload Survey (TWS), which will collect robust evidence on teacher workload to continue to feed into
Initial teacher training (ITT) recruitment and retention support services
The Department for Education (the Department) is seeking to procure support to aid the recruitment, transition, training and retention of career changers and to reprocure the Maths
Research to examine how schools manage relationships between capital and revenue spending
Expressions of interest are sought to undertake research to improve understanding of how schools perceive and manage the relationships between capital and revenue spending. This re
Gathering evidence on the nature and management of out-of-school settings
Expressions of interest are sought to gather better evidence on the extent and nature of Out Of Scool Settings (OOSS) in local areas and to conduct an evaluation of a pilot scheme
Curriculum programme pilot
The Department for Education launched the Curriculum Programme Pilot on 26 July 2018. This pilot is the first phase of the £7.7m Curriculum Fund, a manifesto commitment to support
STA-0154 NCT print and collation services
Overview 1.1 The Standards and Testing Agency (STA), an executive agency of the Department for Education (DfE), manages the live administration of the annual National Curriculum As
Microsoft dynamics NAV - licence, support & implementation services
Microsoft Dynamics NAV is market leading ERP software that allows you to improve efficiency, and streamline your business processes
Walton and st antony's schools demolition of temporary classrooms CAP MOD C NW
Demolition and asbestos removal of 4nr temporary classrooms located in the grounds of 2nr schools ie 2 classrooms per site and subsequent re-instatement of the area. See Volume 1 t