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)
DFE telephony strategy
Summary of the current telephony position both fixed and mobile complete, a strategic roadmap, defining priorities for telephony use to 2020
Adapter cables
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Wifi services (SFA MOG and dfe expansion)
Managed Wireless Solution - SFA MOG and DfE Expansion of sites
Servicenow
ServiceNow offers a portfolio of robust cloud-based applications that automate and manage enterprise services.
CRM right now
Oracle CRM RightNow
Telecoms & VC consultancy
Project management and technical services for telecoms and videoconferencing
Microsoft E5 for office 365 and enterprise mobility suite.
Microsoft E5 for Office 365 and Enterprise Mobility suite.
Transition to saas, paas and iaas / design and development services
Specialist Cloud Services: support your transition to SaaS, PaaS and IaaS / Design and Development Services. Services design & agile service development, including professional ser
Office 365 tenant merger
Provision of Lot 2 and Lot 3 G-Cloud Services to provide an office 365 tenant merger
Contract to cover the supply cover of teachers at review panels
Contract to cover the supply cover of teachers at review panels
Golden hello
Trainees who started eligible postgraduate ITT training programmes from 1 August 2000 to 31 July 2011 can claim for the Golden Hello incentive. The values range from £2,500 to £5,0
Early intervention foundation
Contractual agreement between DfE & EIF for independent research for FY 2017-2018
Essex county council - adviser in somerset
RfX103 was an NCTL call off agreement for a number of suppliers. The requirement is to provide intervention adviser support and challenge in Somerset
KS2 reading hard texts
Provision of Item Writing Services for Key Stage 2 English Reading (additional hard texts)
Support for independent supporters workforce
Support for Independent Supporters Workforce.
Parent carer forum grants
Parent Carer Forum grants. DfE makes £2.3m available to the parent carer forum (one per local authority area) so they can engage with the local authority in designing and deliverin
2017 Exemplification - danielle bamberger
Danielle Bamberger has been contracted to undertake exemplification work for 2017/18 cycle.
Modified test call off 4 - KS2
Modified Test Production of KS2 Tests
Modified test - call off 4 - KS1
Modified Test Production for KS1
STA national curriculum print and collation services 2018
A call-off against Crown Commercial Services RM3785 Print and Managed Services framework to Lot 1 as a direct award. Lot 1 is a single supplier lot, awarded to APS Group ltd, for e