Public sector buyer
Department for Education
Department for Education has awarded 1,680 contracts worth £32,154,800,557 to 1,352 different suppliers between 2019 and 2026.
From award notices published on Contracts Finder and Find a Tender. Contracts awarded through other e-tendering portals are not included, so this is a floor, not a total.
What they have awarded, by year
Our award history is not continuous. We hold notices published January 2021 to July 2022, and September 2022 to November 2022, and July 2023 to August 2026, and nothing published between December 2022 and June 2023 — a gap of 7 months. Any period overlapping that gap is understated here, and the change between periods is not a market trend.
- 2024£2,504,869,019 · 414
- 2025£10,564,049,862 · 526
- 2026£17,321,471,149 · 316
Years with no bar are years we hold no award notices for this buyer — which may mean they bought nothing, or that we do not have that period. We do not fill gaps in.
What they buy
- Education417 contracts
- Construction315 contracts
- Business services270 contracts
- IT services167 contracts
- CPV 73154 contracts
- Architecture & engineering120 contracts
- Software88 contracts
- Recreation & culture51 contracts
- Health & social32 contracts
- CPV 7517 contracts
Who wins their work
- Bowmer & Kirkland Ltd68 awards
- Kier Construction58 awards
- Tilbury Douglas55 awards
- BAM Construction Ltd41 awards
- Morgan Sindall Construction and Infrastructure Ltd34 awards
- Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd27 awards
- Galliford Try Building Limited25 awards
- BOWMER AND KIRKLAND LIMITED21 awards
- Magic Breakfast17 awards
- Bytes Software Services LTD15 awards
How contested their contracts are
Of the awards that report it, the average was not calculable, and 3 were awarded to a single bidder — 9% of that sample.
Based on the 33 of 1,680 awards that publish a bidder count — buyers are not required to, and most do not.
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