The Open University

Contract awards

• Maintenance and Service Agreement Renewal - 01/07/26 to 30/06/27

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 30 Jun, 20278 monthsValue £26.40kSource Find a Tender

  Renewal of an existing maintenance and service agreement for the period 1 July 2026 to 30 June 2027.

  Awarded to CROWCON DETECTION INSTRUMENTS LIMITED

• LD27CD Venue Hire

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 6 Apr, 20275 monthsValue £47.70kSource Find a Tender

  LD27CD Ceremony Venue Hire - Royal Festival Hall / Southbank

  Awarded to SOUTHBANK CENTRE

• LED lighting upgrade designs to RIBA4

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractPublished 3 Nov, 2026Value £38.26kSource Find a Tender

  Design work for an LED lighting upgrade project to RIBA Stage 4 requirements.

  Awarded to Bellrock Advisory LLP

• ZetaView Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 30 Jan, 203039 monthsValue £94.09kSource Find a Tender

  RCIF purchase for ZetaView Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis (NTA) platform for characterization of general and specific nanomaterials in aqueous solutions in size range 10-1000 nm and concentration 106-109 particles/ml. Purchase of a piece of equipment including a 3 year service support contract.

  Awarded to ANALYTIK LIMITED

• Renewal to July 2027

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 22 Sept, 202711 monthsValue £34.27kSource Find a Tender

  Annual subscription to the Copyright Licensing Agency

  Awarded to COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY LIMITED(THE)

• Courier Services - Royal Mail

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 10 Jan, 202814 monthsValue £832.44kSource Contracts Finder

  Call-off contract for the use of Royal Mail as a courier by the OU

  Awarded to Royal Mail Group Ltd

• Courier Services DHL

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 10 Jan, 202814 monthsValue £145.00kSource Contracts Finder

  International, and some domestic, courier services to ensure student material reaches our students where Royal Mail and Yodel services are not appropriate. Also courier services for the wider OU where required.

  Awarded to DHL INTERNATIONAL (UK) LIMITED

• Printed Book Production/CFP/PRO/2026

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 5 Oct, 202823 monthsSource Find a Tender

  The Open University has awarded a closed framework for the supply of printed book production (to include paper supply, printing, finishing and binding) of educational materials for delivery into the The Open University's warehouse. The framework will support the production of printed learning materials for The Open Uni

  Awarded to HOBBS THE PRINTERS LIMITED, STERLING PRESS LIMITED

• Innova - SAS work

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractPublished 13 Oct, 2026Value £41.67kSource Find a Tender

  Temporary few month extension of OUPA11215 for various AI related work up to value of £50k.

  Awarded to INNOVATION TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED

• iRIS Connect

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 1 Oct, 202711 monthsValue £27.08kSource Find a Tender

  Online education management and practice learning platform used by the PGCE Partnership Team to support the management, monitoring and assessment of student teachers' school-based practice learning.

  Awarded to IRIS CONNECT LTD

• Experian Data Quality Enterprise Licence

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 30 Sept, 202823 monthsValue £417.00kSource Contracts Finder

  Experian's Data Quality Enterprise Licence is an existing software used for Address Validation Services. The contract is a direct award to Academia Limited as a software reseller under the Procurement Services Software Products and Associated Services Y23065 framework. This contract is for the renewal of the Licence

  Awarded to Academia Limited

• Media Monitoring

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Jul, 202933 monthsValue £30.00kSource Find a Tender

  Media monitoring partner capable of delivering high‑quality, reliable, and comprehensive monitoring services across relevant channels

  Awarded to AIMEDIADATA LTD

• Graduation Ceremony Venue Hire

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 5 Mar, 20274 monthsValue £33.45kSource Find a Tender

  Hire of Bridgewater Hall for a graduation ceremony on 5th March 2027

  Awarded to LEGENDS GLOBAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

• Training Consultancy

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractPublished 23 Sept, 2026Value £25.00kSource Find a Tender

  Consultancy for specific training courses.

  Awarded to VANGUARD CONSULTING LIMITED

• Graduation Ceremony Venue Hire

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 29 Oct, 202712 monthsValue £32.36kSource Find a Tender

  Hire of Bridgewater Hall for a graduation ceremony on 29th October 2027

  Awarded to LEGENDS GLOBAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

• Graduation Ceremony Venue Hire

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 16 Apr, 20275 monthsValue £26.21kSource Find a Tender

  Hire of York Barbican for 16th April 2027 graduation ceremony

  Awarded to LEGENDS GLOBAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

• Habitable Worlds Observatory Detector

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Mar, 20275 monthsValue £585.00kSource Find a Tender

  Habitable Worlds Observatory Detector. Qualification testing of bespoke CIS300 series UVIS detectors. This work is being performed under the remit of a UK Space Agency (UKSA) research grant, with costs for the procurement of this equipment specifically stated within the UKRI offer letter. This phase of work being perfo

  Awarded to Teledyne UK Limited

• DHL Courier Services

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 31 Jul, 20279 monthsValue £44.74kSource Find a Tender

  DHL Courier services for Postal Services for financial year 2026/27

  Awarded to DHL INTERNATIONAL (UK) LIMITED

• BM27AB Venue Hire - NEC (ICC) - 21 May 2027

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 21 May, 20276 monthsValue £30.03kSource Find a Tender

  Hire of NEC on 21st May 2027 for OU graduation ceremony

  Awarded to NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE LIMITED (THE)

• Graduation Ceremony Venue Hire

  Location: South East

  Awarded contractContract ends 28 Oct, 202824 monthsValue £29.82kSource Find a Tender

  Hire of NEC, Birmingham on 28 October 2028 for OU graduation ceremony

  Awarded to NATIONAL EXHIBITION CENTRE LIMITED (THE)