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Public sector contracts from The Education Authority
17 of its contracts end in the next 18 months. Get its new tenders, and see who holds the work now.
- 123
- Awards, last 12 months
- 365
- Awards since 2021
- 266
- Distinct suppliers
- £1.7m
- Median contract value
- 17
- Ending in 18 months
Hatched quarters fall only partly inside the next 18 months. Busiest whole quarter: Q3 2027.
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- 3 contracts end in the next 6 months
- Has awarded contracts every year since 2021
- Took on 60 new suppliers in the last 12 months
123 contract awards published in the last 12 months, down from 153 the year before, and 365 since 2021 from 266 suppliers.
The Education Authority at a glance
Its most active procurement category is furniture and furnishings.
Henderson Foodservice Limited appears most frequently, holding 20 awards.
The median published contract value is £1.7m (362 contracts state a value).
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17 contracts expiring in the next 18 months
Contract end dates are published in the original award notices. A contract approaching its end date is a re-tender with a date on it, and the point at which a buyer is most open to a conversation.
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Latest contract awards
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Latest activity
What The Education Authority has published recently
Open tenders, and the awards from the last 12 months that the table above does not list, newest first.An award is dated by its award date, or by its publication date where the award date is missing or later.
27 Oct 2026 (11 days ago)
12 Oct 2026 (3 weeks ago)
12 Jun 2026 (5 months ago)
12 Jun 2026 (5 months ago)
29 May 2026 (5 months ago)
29 May 2026 (5 months ago)
29 May 2026 (5 months ago)
19 May 2026 (6 months ago)
14 May 2026 (6 months ago)
Contract award
20 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
20 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
20 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
14 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
14 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
Contract award
Lot 1 Building maintenance service works (Area North) (Council Area Causeway Coast and Glens)
Awarded to DOWN DEVELOPMENTS LTD
14 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
Contract award
Lot 2 Building maintenance service works (Area East) (Council Area Newry, Mourne and Down )
Awarded to C T S PROJECTS LTD
14 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
Contract award
Lot 3 Building maintenance service works (Area South West) (Council Area Mid-Ulster)
Awarded to Woodvale Construction Company
8 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
Contract award
Lot 1 Building maintenance service works (Area North) (Council Areas Derry and Strabane)
Awarded to C H C GROUP LTD
8 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
Contract award
Lot 2 Building maintenance service works (Area East) (Council Area Belfast)
Awarded to MAURICE FLYNN SONS LTD
8 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
Contract award
Lot 3 Building maintenance service works (Area South West) (Council Areas Fermanagh and Omagh)
Awarded to Woodvale Construction Company
8 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
Contract award
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Most frequent suppliers
- Henderson Foodservice Limited20 awards
- Irwin ME LimitedSME18 awards
- Creative Activity18 awards
- Haydock Music Limited18 awards
- VERSION 1 Solutions Limited17 awards
- Stephens Catering Equipment Company LimitedSME16 awards
- Normans (Burton Upon Trent) LTD14 awards
- Frederick Hyde LimitedSME13 awards
- Maurice Flynn Sons Ltd12 awards
- Massey Catering Equipment LimitedSME11 awards
How much goes to small firms and the voluntary sector
512 of 661 awards
6 of 212 awards
Awards since November 2023 where The Education Authority recorded on the notice whether the winner was an SME or voluntary sector organisation. The badges next to each supplier are stricter: a supplier is only badged when every buyer's notices agree.
Every supplier to The Education Authority with a profile75
- Academia LTD3
- Alliance Disposables LTD1
- Allied Publicity Services (Manchester) Limited1
- Allocate Software Limited1
- Arthur CoxSME1
- Atamis Limited1
- Banner Group LTD10
- Bolinda UK LTD2
- British Telecommunications PLC1
- CAPITA Business Services Limited5
- Carson McDowell LLP5
- CHC Group LimitedSME10
- CIVICA UK Limited1
- Cleaver Fulton Rankin Limited1
- Creative Activity18
- Deloitte LLP Ltd2
- Diversey Limited2
- DWF Ltd1
- Ernst Young LLP4
- Findel Education Limited3
- Frederick Hyde LimitedSME13
- FuJitsu Services Ltd1
- Greystone Joinery Construction Ltd10
- Hawthorn Heights LTDSME1
- Haydock Music Limited18
- Healthy Bean Limited1
- Henderson Foodservice Limited20
- Irwin ME LimitedSME18
- ISHERWOOD + ELLIS LLPSME3
- John McQuillan (Contracts) LtdSME1
- John Preston Co Belfast LtdSME1
- Joseph Flanigan Son Ltd5
- KAYS Medical Limited1
- KOMPAN Scotland Limited1
- KONICA MINOLTA Business Solutions UK Ltd1
- kpmg LLP3
- KYOCERA Document Solutions (UK) Limited1
- Laird Grass Machinery LimitedSME1
- LAKELAND RECOVERY SERVICESME8
- LCC Group Limited1
- LM Services NI LTD6
- Lyreco UK LTD3
- Massey Catering Equipment LimitedSME11
- Matrix Booking Limited1
- Maurice Flynn Sons Ltd12
- McAdam Design LimitedSME2
- Mills Reeve LLP1
- MOFFETT AND SONS LIMITED T/A Balmoral FurnitureSME4
- NI Trucks LimitedSME1
- Normans (Burton Upon Trent) LTD14
- Odyssey Education Ltd1
- OverDrive, Inc1
- Oxford University Press Limited3
- Pearson Education Limited3
- Peters LimitedSME2
- R.D. Mechanical Services LtdSME1
- Rapid Electronics Limited2
- REED Specialist Recruitment Limited1
- RICOH UK Ltd1
- Spaceright Europe Limited3
- Specialist Computer Centres (SCC) PLC3
- Stearn Electric Company Limited1
- Stephen McKenna T/A Galgorm GroupSME1
- Stephens Catering Equipment Company LimitedSME16
- Tetra Tech LTD1
- The Brunch Box Sandwich Company LimitedSME2
- The Design Concept Limited3
- Trustmarque Solutions LTD1
- Ulverscroft LimitedSME1
- VERSION 1 Solutions Limited17
- Wagstaff Bros., Limited5
- WF Education Group Limited3
- Woodvale Construction Company Ltd9
- Xerox UK LTD2
- XMA LImited2
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Most active categories
The CPV codes on this work
The codes The Education Authority classifies its contracts under. Each one shows who else buys that work, the typical value, and what is coming up for renewal.
- 45210000Building construction work67
- 72000000IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support25
- 37000000Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories12
- 15000000Food, beverages, tobacco and related products10
- 39310000Catering equipment9
- 79100000Legal services8
- 48000000Software package and information systems8
- 30000000Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages8
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The Education Authority, in short
Who does The Education Authority award contracts to?
Across 365 contracts recorded since 2021, The Education Authority has used 266 different suppliers. The most frequent are Henderson Foodservice Limited (20 contracts), Irwin ME Limited (18 contracts), Creative Activity (18 contracts).
What does The Education Authority buy?
Its most active procurement categories are furniture and furnishings, construction works, CPV 37. Categories are derived from the CPV codes published on each award notice.
When do The Education Authority contracts come up for renewal?
17 contracts awarded by The Education Authority have an end date within the next 18 months, the earliest on 16 Dec 2026. End dates come from the original award notices, so they are visible well before any re-tender is advertised.
How much does The Education Authority spend on contracts?
The median published contract value is £1.7m, across the 362 contracts that state a value. Published values are not added up here: a framework's value is a ceiling shared by every supplier on it, and the same value is often repeated across lots, so adding them up would overstate what is spent.
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Same type of body. National bodies are not grouped by region: a department's notice address is where its commercial team sits, not where it works. Most published awards first.
How these figures are worked out
- The last 12 months: award notices published from 8 November 2025 to 7 November 2026, each contract counted once however many suppliers or rows it has. The same window is used everywhere on this page.
- Year on year: Its published contract awards were level, then fell in the last year. Contracts by publication date in the 12 months to 7 Nov 2026 and the two years before it, oldest first: 138, 153 and 123. A change of more than 15% counts as a rise or fall; each year needs at least 5 contracts.
- 3 contracts end in the next 6 months: Published end dates between 7 November 2026 and 7 May 2027, each contract counted once.
- Has awarded contracts every year since 2021: At least one contract in every calendar year from 2021 to 2026, by award date (or publication date where the award date is later). Our records begin in 2021.
- Took on 60 new suppliers in the last 12 months: Suppliers named on a contract it awarded and published since 8 November 2025, and on none before. Counted by organisation, not by spelling.
- Most recent award: recorded 27 Oct 2026 (11 days ago).
- Values: value figures cover the 362 of 365 contracts where a value was published. Values are never added up: framework ceilings and values repeated across lots would make a total meaningless.
- Since 2021: totals count contracts by award date from January 2021, and suppliers by organisation rather than by spelling.
Sources
Contract data on this page is sourced from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder and published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under that licence. Figures cover contract award notices published from January 2021 onward, with comprehensive coverage from 2023. Earlier contracts, and any award not published to Find a Tender or Contracts Finder, will not appear. Figures may lag the source portals. Relative dates (such as “in 6 days”) count from 7 November 2026, when this page was built.
How to cite this data
Tender Radar (2026) Public sector contracts from The Education Authority [Dataset]. Professor AI. Available at: https://tender-radar.co.uk/buyers/the-education-authority (Accessed: 7 November 2026).
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