Office for Students: tenders, sectors & how to win their contracts

Office for Students has published 53 tenders in United Kingdom.

1 is open for bids as of 9 August 2026.

Its buying spans 5 CPV divisions, most often business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security.

Across 24 awarded contracts the median value is £314.5k.

Its published awards total £20.7m.

How to win their contracts

Measured from Office for Students's own published record — no estimates, no generic advice.

Plan for about 33 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 19 of their tenders.
They publish about 0.8 tenders a month, measured over 66 months of history.
Half of their 24 awarded contracts are worth £314.5k or less — size your bid to that range.
Most of their buying falls in business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, it services: consulting, software development, internet and support, education and training services.
Their most frequent suppliers are LSE Enterprise Ltd (2) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.

Tender	Winner	Tender closed	Contract Value
Office for Students - Contract for evaluation case studies f...	Shift Insight Limited	27 July 2023	£123k
Office for Students: Recruitment Advertising Services	Penna Plc	20 March 2023	£400k
Office for Students: Executive Search Services	GatenbySanderson Ltd	28 February 2023	£450k
Office for Students - Bristol Office Cleaning	Albany Cleaning Solutions	14 December 2022	£304k
Office for Students - Contracts for Leadership and Managemen...	The Solutions Focus	30 November 2022	£109.9k
Consultation analysis	Pye Tait Limited	23 October 2022	£483.5k