PPE1002198 Direct Award for the Provision of Training to Health Care Professionals

About the buyer

University of Glasgow buys as a higher education institution, run by its own Procurement Office at Tay House. Every tender is advertised and submitted through the Public Contracts Scotland portal, with no paper submissions accepted. Purchasing follows the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 and the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014. Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges runs sector-wide frameworks for the Scottish higher education sector that the university draws on. Colleges hold delegated authority for smaller purchases below a set threshold. Selective Travel Management is the approved supplier for the university's travel and conferencing needs.

Education procurement reached £47.4bn in 2024/25, the fourth-largest public sector budget.

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Glasgow's contract awards have been in laboratory and precision equipment, business services and software and information systems.