Cardiff University

How to win their contracts

Measured from Cardiff University's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 34 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 79 of their tenders.
• They publish about 4.2 tenders a month, measured over 70 months of history.
• Half of their 112 awarded contracts are worth £371.6k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services, laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses).
• Their most frequent suppliers are CDW Limited (4), NanoString Technologies (4), Gameshift (4) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.