Cardiff and Vale College

How to win their contracts

Measured from Cardiff and Vale College's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 19 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 13 of their tenders.
• They publish about 0.3 tenders a month, measured over 66 months of history.
• Half of the tenders where they publish a value are estimated at £264k or less.
• Most of their buying falls in it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services, industrial machinery.
• Their most frequent suppliers are A Quality Service Limited (2), SSG Support Services Group LTD (2), Create Education Project LTD (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.