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By buyer · Find a Tender and Contracts Finder · read 22 October 2026

College tenders from UK public buyers

College tenders open now: 33. In the 12 months to 22 October 2026, UK public buyers published 1,271 matching notices. The newest recorded award went to HATS Group Limited on 2 Jul 2026.

Checked against primary sources3 sources linked below

College tenders published each month, October 2025 to October 2026: bar chart of 1,271 UK notices
Notices per month, UK time. All matched by text.

Which college tenders are open now?

33 notices with a deadline still ahead on 22 October 2026, closing soonest first, all matched by text.

College tenders matched by text

Each title, buyer or stated region matches this hub’s rule. That is a word match, not a judgment of what is bought.

No stated deadline: 3 tender notices from the last 60 days

These are tender-stage notices whose source gives no deadline and no ended status. They are not counted as open above: check the official record before treating one as live.

Showing 30 of 33. Search every open notice for “College”.

Which buyers publish the most College notices?

Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, with 124 notices of 1,271 in the 12 months to 22 October 2026.

  1. Royal Holloway and Bedford New College124
  2. Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust61
  3. The City of Liverpool College58
  4. COLLEGE OF POLICING LIMITED52
  5. Hull College37
  6. New College Swindon31
  7. Bedford College26
  8. Hopwood Hall College24

Count of notices by the buyer name as published, 1,271 notices in the window, read 22 October 2026.

How many College notices are published each month?

About 106 a month over the last eleven full months; the busiest month was July 2026, with 198.

162 of the 576 College notices that stated a GBP value in the last 12 months fell in this band (28%). 3 of the open notices listed above are in it.

Counts come from this page’s data. A stated estimate is not the contract value, and frameworks are excluded.

StageNotices
Contract485
Award481
Tender213
Planning56
Tender cancellation22
Pre-procurement13
Pipeline1
Stage as the source records it, of 1,271 notices in the 12 months to 22 October 2026.
Stated valueNotices
Under £25,00019
£25,000 to £100,000162
£100,000 to £500,000249
£500,000 to £2 million99
£2 million or more47
Only the 576 notices that state a GBP value, excluding frameworks, placeholders of £1,000 or less and ceilings of £100 million or more. An estimate in a notice is not a contract value.

Who has won College contracts recently?

A & B TRADE PAINT SUPPLIES LIMITED won 1 of the award notices read for this hub, the most of any supplier.

The newest award

On 2 Jul 2026, University College London Hospitals NHS FT recorded an award to HATS Group Limited for “UCLH-7264 - Non-Emergency Patient Transport Services”, at a recorded value of £85,200,000.

Read the award notice. Legacy award record; supplier allocation and signed-contract status unverified

SupplierAward notices won
A & B TRADE PAINT SUPPLIES LIMITED1
AJB MEDIA LIMITED1
BTU (Installation and Maintenance) Ltd1
Beard Construction1
CAE ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE LTD1
CBRE Managed Services1
CORDIS BRIGHT LIMITED1
CREST ADVISORY (UK) LIMITED1
Distinct notices per supplier, from the newest 200 of 966 award and contract notices in the window. From the legacy award table, which ends on 23 July 2026. A count of awards, never a sum of spend.

What counts as college tenders here?

Notices published by further education and sixth-form colleges. Royal medical colleges and university colleges share the word and are included, so read each notice's buyer.

Classified

This hub is chosen by buyer or place, which the catalogue does not describe, so it uses no classification.

Matched by text

The buyer's name contains one of: college. A word match is not a judgment of what is bought, so these are labelled as matches.

  1. Open the official notice

    Every notice above links to its page here and to its record on Find a Tender or Contracts Finder. The documents there are the tender; this page is not.
  2. Check the dates

    Note the deadline and any clarification or expression-of-interest date. Forecast and planning notices have no bid deadline yet.
  3. Check the route to market

    A framework or dynamic purchasing system call-off needs a place on that agreement first; an open procedure does not.
  4. Look at who won before

    The winners above show who has delivered this kind of contract recently and for which buyers.

Read the buyer’s own notice before you spend a day on any of these.

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  1. 33 notices open now

    Listed above, closing soonest first, each linked to its page and the official record.
  2. Royal Holloway and Bedford New College published 124 notices

    The most of any buyer here, out of 1,271 in the last 12 months.
  3. A & B TRADE PAINT SUPPLIES LIMITED won 1 award

    The most of any supplier in the 200 award and contract notices read for this hub.
  4. About 106 notices a month

    Published on average over the last 11 full months, from 1,271 in the 12-month window.

Questions about this page

Short answers, with the figures read for this page.

How many college tenders are open now?
33 notices with a stated deadline still ahead on 22 October 2026, all matched by text. Another 3 tender notices from the last 60 days state no deadline and are listed separately. The list is read again every day.
Where are these notices published?
On Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, the UK government's two public notice services. Each notice on this site links to its official record there; read that record and its documents before deciding to bid.
How does a notice get into this hub?
By its title, buyer or stated region matching the hub's rule. Classified notices will be added here when they are published to public pages; a text match is never presented as a classification.
Are EU, Scottish and Welsh portals included?
No. Only Find a Tender and Contracts Finder are read. EU (TED) notices are never added to these UK counts, and notices that appear only on Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales or eTendersNI are not here.

Hubs that share buyers or suppliers with this one, and the full tender index.

Sources and method

Read at
22 October 2026, regenerated daily
Window
22 October 2025 to 22 October 2026, by publication date
Classification
Not used for this hub
  • A text match means the notice's title, buyer or stated region fits this hub's rule. It is not a judgment of what is bought.
  • Open means a stated deadline still in the future. Tender notices with no stated deadline are listed separately, and only when published in the last 60 days; planning and forecast notices are not counted as open.
  • Award records come from the legacy award table, whose newest record is 23 July 2026.
  • Winners are read from the newest 200 of 966 award and contract notices in the window.
  • UK notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder only. EU (TED) notices are not counted.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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