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)
Security services
Provision of Lot 3 G-Cloud Support Services to provide:- Cyber Security Operations and Incident Management Security and Network Operations Centre Advisory and Design for Cloud Serv
Provision of item writing services for key stage 2 english reading
This call-off contract is for the provision of item writing services for Key Stage 2 English Reading, including the drafting of potential items and their mark schemes, ready for fo
Provision of item writing services for skills tests literacy work package 1
This call-off contract is for the provision of item writing services for Skills Tests Literacy Work Package 1, including the drafting of potential items and their mark schemes, rea
Provision of item writing services for skills tests literacy work package 2
This call-off contract is for the provision of item writing services for Skills Tests Literacy Work Package 2, including the drafting of potential items and their mark schemes, rea
Evaluation organisations to support the evaluation of the children's social care innovation programme / partners in practice
The Department for Education (DfE) proposes to tender for the services of up to 18 organisations to undertake evaluations as part of the Children's Social Care Innovation Programme
Healthy schools rating scheme
The Department for Education will launch a tender in early 2017 for the development and delivery of a national "healthy schools rating scheme". The scheme should encourage schools
Omnibus survey services for schoolteachers and leaders, leaders of post-16 institutions and for pupils, parents and carers
The Department for Education (DfE) proposes to tender for bids to undertake omnibus surveys across two different groups in England: • School teachers and leaders • Pupils and paren
Specialist cloud services
Lot 4 Specialist Cloud Services: Business oriented, cyber security planning and strategy, security architecture and design, risk management and security accreditation
Data architecture services
The provision of a specialist Data Architecture service to provide visionary and strategic thinking, in tandem with a pragmatic hands on approach to lead and manage the definition
Children's social care services commissioner london borough of bromley
The Commissioner will play a high profile role in a challenging political and delivery environment. They will bring their extensive and proven skills in children's social care tran
Achieving permanence CPD programme
The contract is to develop a continuous professional development (CPD) programme on permanence for child and family social workers. Specific responsibilities of the contractor are
Children’s social care services adviser
The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in Local Authorities, as part of interventions, in response to failure or weakness in the provision of
Teaching and leadership innovation fund (TLIF)
The contract notice seeking tenders has now been published here - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c45c0862-9bde-4b82-a7ef-caea27b3fb55 See 'Attachments' for a ful
What works centre for children's social care
** New on 7th April 2017 - The DfE is pleased to announce that it will shortly be running two parallel procurement exercises to develop the What Works Centre for Children's Social
Provision of item writing services for key stage 1 english GPS call-off contract
This call-off contract is for the provision of item writing services for Key Stage 1 English GPS, including the drafting of potential items and their mark schemes, ready for formal
Trialling call-off 27: key stage 1 item validation trial april 2017
This is a call-off from the Trialling and Sampling framework and the contract is for the trialling of the Key Stage 1 Item Validation Trial April 2017. An Item Validation Trial (IV
Student bursary support service (SBSS)
The current Student Bursary Support Service (SBSS) is a service to: • process student applications for Care to Learn financial support, which involves eligibility checks of the stu
Legal services, due diligence services and financial and governance advice
The Local Authority Interventions Unit from the Department for Education are seeking to increase the current market of due diligence, legal services suppliers and financial and gov
Computer based skills testing
See 'Attachments' for a Word version. The Standards and Testing Agency wish to procure a Test Delivery Service and associated development processes to support the Professional Skil
Trialling framework
See 'Attachments' for further information. STA wish to re-establish a Trialling and Sampling Framework to carry out trials and sampling exercises for a range of DfE assessments. Th