Buyer
Department for Education tenders and procurement
Covering 600+ buyer sites · 5 years of records · Contracts awarded in the 24 months to 11 October 2026 · Updated 11 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 980
- Last 24 months
- Median contract
- £280k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £5.8bn
- 906 of 980 have a published value
- Suppliers
- 622
- Won its contracts
- Tenders open now
- 1
- Closing soonest below
- Ending in 12 months
- 287
- Contracts with a recorded end date
Compiled by BidSkim from Department for Education’s published notices. Not an official Department for Education page.
NHS ODS code XDK
Open tenders
Closing soonest. The official notice has the documents and the deadline.
- Tackling Antisemitism in Education (official notice, opens in a new tab)Closes 7 March 2030—
What Department for Education buys
By service, contracts awarded in the 24 months to 11 October 2026. BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
- 1School improvement services128 contracts£12.7m
- 2Commercial construction122 contracts£1.9bn
- 3Impact evaluation29 contracts£14.5m
- 4Application development23 contracts£32.5m
- 5Teacher training and school staff development21 contracts£232m
- 6Digital delivery partner18 contracts£245m
- 7Professional staffing17 contracts£444k
- 8Longitudinal survey15 contracts£40.8m
- 9Capital programme management14 contracts£219m
- 10Policy development13 contracts£944k
Who wins Department for Education’s contracts
By contracts won, the 24 months to 11 October 2026.
- 1Bowmer & Kirkland Ltd59 contracts£1.0bn
- 2Tilbury Douglas50 contracts£568m
- 3Kier Construction41 contracts£600m
- 4Morgan Sindall26 contracts£173m
- 5BAM Construction23 contracts£631m
- 6Galliford Try15 contracts£139m
- 7IFF Research14 contracts£15.3m
- 8Ipsos13 contracts£23.6m
- 9Willmott Dixon10 contracts£41.8m
- 10Bytes Software Services10 contracts£10.3m
Contracts awarded by quarter
Frameworks it buys through
698 of 980 contracts were call-offs from a framework or dynamic purchasing system.
- Construction Framework 2025 · Department for Education12 contracts
- Media and Creative Services · CCS1 contract
- Digital Outcomes and Specialists 7 · Crown Commercial Service1 contract
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