University of Strathclyde

How to win their contracts

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

• Plan for about 32 days to prepare a bid — that is the median gap between publication and deadline across 73 of their tenders.
• They publish about 5.0 tenders a month, measured over 67 months of history.
• Half of their 160 awarded contracts are worth £303.2k or less — size your bid to that range.
• Most of their buying falls in laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses), business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing, security, industrial machinery.
• Their most frequent suppliers are Jisc (5), Technobis Crystallization Systems (5), CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society (3) — expect to bid against incumbents who already know this buyer.