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About the buyer

University of Salford is a higher education institution in Salford, running a formal, structured procurement process across its schools and services. Open competitive tenders are advertised through the university's InTend portal and on Contracts Finder. Commodity purchases run through consortium frameworks such as the North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium. Formal routes to market include RFQs, invitations to tender and structured supplier onboarding. Every tender carries minimum scoring for social value, sustainability and equity, diversity and inclusion. Suppliers onboarded this way invoice against a university-issued purchase order under its no purchase order, no pay policy.

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

Over the past 5 years, most of University of Salford's contract awards have been in software and information systems, construction work and education and training.