Buyer profile
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
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Total contracts
204
Known spend
£260m
164 disclosed
Average value
£2m
Per contract
Active suppliers
10
Last 5 years
Top suppliers
Last 5 years- 1
DHL INTERNATIONAL (UK) LIMITED
£227,140
- 2
JISC SERVICES LIMITED
£141,564
- 3
The National Exhibition Centre
4 winslatest 17 Aug 2026£89,890
- 4
SYRENIS LIMITED
3 winslatest 09 Apr 2026£990,478
- 5
B:Music (Enterprises) Ltd
3 winslatest 26 Mar 2026£116,755
- 6
LEGENDS GLOBAL HOLDINGS LIMITED
£92,017
- 7
Taylor & Francis Limited
3 winslatest 12 Aug 2026 - 8
The Barbican Centre
2 winslatest 16 Jan 2026£11m
- 9
Actian Europe Ltd
2 winslatest 21 Jan 2026£9m
- 10
Database for Business Limited
2 winslatest 05 Nov 2025£3m
What they buy
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Tender activity
Notices published per month — last 24 months
All contracts (204)
Provision of guarding services
Provison of Guarding Services at OU Walton Hall Campus and Nation and Locations. This shall cover: • static guarding • patrols • control room operations • lock and unlocks • key ho
Ribbon SBC licences
Licenses and support.
Creative services
The provision of Creative Services for the Open University
Media services
The provision of Media Services for the Open University
Textbooks
Procurement of textbooks for student materials.
Knowledge management system - oracle
Renewal of software licenses for the Oracle RightNow Knowledge Management System which is an existing and embedded software package.
Textbooks
Procurement of textbooks for student materials.
Graduation ceremony
Open University Graduation Ceremony Venue
Microsoft EES agreement
Microsoft Licenses, agreement for all Microsoft products except Azure for university wide use.
Sales cloud enterprise edition
Sales Cloud Enterprise Edition OUVP Validation Partnerships
Research and design of evidence-backed APP student profiles
An external research agency, to design and conduct research to understand the experiences of OU Black students and students in IMDQ-1 area. The project concludes with a final repor
Website management/improvement tools
Replacement of website management tools to support the ongoing optimisation and maintenance of Buyer web estate £133,310 INC VAT
System engineering (mechanical and thermal aspects) consultancy
The Service Provider shall provide mechanical and thermal design and analysis services to spaceflight projects at OU. £96000 INC VAT
Statistical analysis services
Statistical analysis services for the Open University
Public sentiment analysis study
Public Sentiment Analysis Study on public awareness of recently aired popular BBC/OU programmes.
Extension/renewal of datacore software defined storage EPP
Extension/Renewal of DataCore Software Defined Storage EPP Agreement for a further 24 Month/2 Year Period: £113813.56
Agriculture machinary
Overseeders and Bomford
Sonar cloud
SonarQube Cloud Enterprise Plan up to 2M LOCs - a static code analysis tool that enables streamlining release pipelines and check the quality of code. 36288 USD
Residential school
Residential School to be held at Venue
Venue hire
Venue Hire for Graduation