City University

How to win their contracts

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

• Plan for about 30 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 5 of their tenders.
• They publish about 0.2 tenders a month, measured over 66 months of history.
• Half of the tenders where they publish a value are estimated at £695k or less.
• Most of their buying falls in construction work, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, software package and information systems.