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Birmingham City University

Tender for Graduation Service Venue Hire

Business ServicesCPV 79952000
Value£6,000,000
Deadline17 Jul 2026
Published16 Jun 2026
RegionNationwide

£6,000,000 — stated in the notice, including VAT

Timeline
Published 16 Jun 2026ClosedCloses 17 Jul 2026
Who to contact
procurement@bcu.ac.uk
01213317677

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£6.0mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£6.5m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The graduation ceremonies involved for this tender are from July 2028 to January 2033.

Graduation ceremonies are held twice a year: January and July.

There are 9 ceremonies in January over 3 days and 15 ceremonies in July over 5 days.

Each ceremony has up to 620 students graduating with 2 guests per student.

The venue selected must be within a 7.5-mile radius from the city centre campus - B4 7BD.

The tender includes venue hire and services and catering for BCU staff, graduates and guests.

Access to the tenderbox is: RY2MQUTV38

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

The venue selected must be within

The venue selected must be within a 7.5-mile radius from the city centre campus.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b49d
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
056471-2026
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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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