Top suppliers
Top suppliers to Office for Students
Top-five suppliers hold 66% of contract value — a concentrated market.
Procurement categories
What Office for Students buys
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.
79487280308532507398396465707790Recent contracts
Latest Office for Students contracts awarded
The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.
Hard FM Services
Shield Mechanical Electrical & Facilities Services Ltd · 2026-10-27
£500K
GB-Bristol: Board Portal
Azeus UK Limited · 2026-10-27
£59K
GB-Bristol: VMWare
Phoenix Software Ltd · 2026-10-15
£28K
GB-Bristol: Independent Auditor to carry out a bespoke assurance engagement
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP · 2026-10-10
£192K
General public law
Bevan Brittan LLP · 2026-09-30
£938K
Corporate and insolvency law
Burges Salmon LLP · 2026-09-30
£104K
GB-Bristol: Services to support Organisation Design
PA Consulting Services Ltd · 2026-09-10
£215K
Provision of support services for TRAC and understanding academic and financial sustainability of the UK higher education sector
KPMG LLP · 2026-09-10
£2.1M
Sector AI Report
Advance HE · 2026-07-28
£1
GB-Bristol: Process mapping software
Generation Digital Limited · 2026-06-29
£34K
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Market analysis
Bidding into Office for Students — what to expect
Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.
34%
Awards to SMEs
66%
Top-5 supplier share
1%
Framework call-offs
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Awards to social enterprises
Around 34% of Office for Students’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Frequently asked
Common questions about selling to Office for Students
How much does Office for Students spend on procurement?
Office for Students awarded 126 contracts totalling £31.0M between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, working with 80 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £304K.
Who are Office for Students's top suppliers?
The largest suppliers to Office for Students by total award value are Ipsos (Market Research) Ltd, KPMG LLP, Hitachi Solutions Europe Ltd. The top five suppliers together hold 66% of contract value.
What does Office for Students buy from suppliers?
Office for Students's procurement is concentrated in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, software package and information systems, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.
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How this profile is compiled
Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-11-08
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.
Source portals
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- · Contracts Finder
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