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)
Assessment and accreditation process for child and family social workers: development, implementation and delivery of assessment infrastructure
***New on 14th July 2017 - The contract will seek contractor(s) to set up an operational system for the assessment and accreditation of child and family social workers in England.
Children's social care advisers and children's services commissioners
See 'Attachments' for a Word description. The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in local authorities, through government intervention in resp
Assessment without levels qualitative research
Expressions of interest are sought to conduct a series of qualitative interviews with school senior leaders and school classroom teachers to investigate assessment practices follow
Children's services commissioners in barnet, kirklees, reading and worcestershire
The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in local authorities, through government intervention in response to failure or weakness in the provisi
Dfe schools regional hubs pilot
Project of a Pilot on behalf of the Schools Commercial Team This Invitation to Tender is for the procurement of the North West and South West Schools Buying Hubs (Hubs). The purpos
Edubase back office function
The provision of a platform and workflow back office solution with the following functionality: • A Data Registry to store the school data (in an ISB compliant format) • A Master D
Trialling call-off 28: key stage 2 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 2 Item Validation Trial April 2017. An Item Validation Trial (IV
Trialling call-off 26: pre-test april 2017
This is a call-off from the Trialling and Sampling framework and the contract is for the trialling of the pre-test April 2017. A Technical Pre-Test (TPT) is required in the followi
Trialling call-off 25: pre-test april 2017
This is a call-off from the Trialling and Sampling framework and the contract is for the trialling of the pre-test April 2017. A Technical Pre-Test (TPT) is required in the followi
Management & running of schools buying hubs regional pilot
***New on 2nd June 2017 - Please note that the two contracts for the schools regional buying hubs in the North West and South West regions will be awarded using the Competitive Dia
Deliver a continuous professional development (CPD) programme on permanence to child and family social workers in around 10 - 15 early adopter local authorities.
*** New on 25th May 2017 - The procurement has been delayed. Further information will be provided in due course.*** The Department made a commitment in Adoption: A Vision for chang
Alfresco support and maintenance
Provision of professional services, support and development services to effect Alfresco content and data migration to the DfE SharePoint (Azure Platform) as part of The Machinery o
Measuring vulnerability
To do groundwork and feasibility assessment for a first State of the Nation report on vulnerable and invisible children.
Strategic communications
The Children's Commissioner's Office appointed a suitable organisation to review and develop the organisation's strategic communications to support the delivery of future business
Impact on children of leaving europe
Legal analysis on the status of EU national children in the UK and British national children in the EU.
A review of existing sources of evidence on the views, experiences and perceptions of children in or leaving care
The Children's Commissioner's Office commissioned a piece of work which maps and describes recent sources of evidence on the views, experiences and perspectives of children receivi
Provision of inclusion expert resource for the standards and testing agency
The Standards and Testing Agency (STA) is looking to recruit a pool of Inclusion Experts with a range of specialisms to ensure that Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 national curriculum
Initial training for educational psychologists (ITEP) (RFx101)
The contract with the incumbent supplier expires on 31 August 2015 and a new contract is being tendered to enable recruitment activity from September 2015 of a new intake for acade
Children's social care adviser team tower hamlets
The Department for Education (DfE) is responsible for supporting improvement in local authorities, through government intervention in response to failure or weakness in the provisi
Teach first leadership development contract
Provision of services for the Teach First Leadership Development Programme including the recruitment of candidates, placement of them in schools and delivery of the 2 year programm