CORE Education Trust

How to win their contracts

Measured from CORE Education Trust's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

• Plan for about 42 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 5 of their tenders.
• They publish about 0.3 tenders a month, measured over 48 months of history.
• Half of the tenders where they publish a value are estimated at £3.4m or less.
• Most of their buying falls in hotel, restaurant and retail trade services, business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy.