Top suppliers
Top suppliers to Department for Education
Top-five suppliers hold 46% of contract value — a concentrated market.
Procurement categories
What Department for Education buys
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.
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Latest Department for Education contracts awarded
The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.
Reception Early Language Monitoring and CSCOT Observation Programme
I CAN Charity (trading as Speech and Language UK) · 2026-10-15
£445K
Contract for Design and Build of All Saints
Speller Metcalfe · 2026-10-06
Contract for the Design and Build of Uffculme School
Mclaren Construction Limited · 2026-10-05
Delivering the Best Start in Life - Implementation Partner
Mott MacDonald Limited · 2026-09-30
£2.2M
project_10572 - Speech and Language Therapists in education: a mixed methods research project
IFF Research Ltd · 2026-09-30
£189K
Pope Paul Catholic Primary School
R G Carter · 2026-09-30
National Centre for Arts and Music Education
Empowering Educational International Limited (Etio) · 2026-09-29
£24.2M
User research participant
PEOPLE FOR RESEARCH LTD · 2026-09-27
Free School Meals (FSM) Expansion Evaluation
Alma Economics · 2026-09-24
£599K
IT Research and Advisory Services II
Info-Tech Research Group Ltd · 2026-09-24
£296K
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Most of it is in education & training, business services and construction works.
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348
contracts ending in 12 months
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93
planned procurements
Work this buyer has said it intends to tender
27
frameworks running
Routes to sell here without a full tender
21
tender packs read
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Market analysis
Bidding into Department for Education — what to expect
Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.
40%
Awards to SMEs
46%
Top-5 supplier share
47%
Framework call-offs
426
Awards to social enterprises
Around 40% of Department for Education’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises, and 426 have gone to voluntary, community or social enterprises. Around 47%of awards are call-offs from framework agreements — getting onto the right framework matters as much as the bid itself here.
Frequently asked
Common questions about selling to Department for Education
How much does Department for Education spend on procurement?
Department for Education awarded 1,681 contracts totalling £8.0bn between 2023-10-16 and 2026-10-16, working with 890 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £5.6M.
Who are Department for Education's top suppliers?
The largest suppliers to Department for Education by total award value are Bowmer & Kirkland Ltd, BAM Construction Ltd, Kier Construction. The top five suppliers together hold 46% of contract value.
What does Department for Education buy from suppliers?
Department for Education's procurement is concentrated in education and training services, construction work, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.
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How this profile is compiled
Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-10-16
This profile aggregates public-record procurement data published by the UK Government under the Open Government Licence v3.0. ENKII fetches, deduplicates, and aggregates source records; we don't edit the underlying facts.
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