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Company description
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)”. Incorporated on 17 July 1992; registered for 34 years; registered office reported in READING, ENGLAND. Its primary declared activity is 70229 · Management consultancy activities other than financial management.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 1 PSC record, 2 trade marks, 1 charity record, 5 procurement records. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- SOUTHERN UNIVERSITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES
- Company number
- 02732244
- Company type
- PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- SMALL
- Mortgage charges
- 0 total · 0 outstanding · 0 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 July 2025Next accounts due
30 April 2027Last statement made up to
1 July 2026Next statement due
15 July 2027BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES
LEI 213800LC171KZF8OW576 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- 4GJI
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 17 July 1992
- Initial LEI registration
- 9 January 2023
- LEI last updated
- 13 March 2026
- Next renewal
- 9 January 2027
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- READING ENTERPRISE CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF READING, Whiteknights, READING, GB-RDG, RG6 6BU, GB
- Headquarters address
- READING ENTERPRISE CENTRE, UNIVERSITY OF READING, Whiteknights, READING, GB-RDG, RG6 6BU, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NON_CONSOLIDATING
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
04 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- SOUTHERN UNIVERSITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2024
- Approved
- 31 January 2025
- Sectors
- Charitable / not-for-profit activities Education and research Professional and administrative services and supplies, including legal, consulting and accounting services
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Not reported as covered
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- Under £36 million
- Years producing statements
- 1 to 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 5 February 2025
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery
Training described
Executive-level staff Procurement staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Civil society organisations
Social audits
Third party audit arranged by your organisation
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app
Other monitoring
electronics watch subscription across key frameworks
Demonstrated progress
Continue to monitor modern slavery through our live frameworks and through the retender of frameworks. continual progress being monitored
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: ICT supply chains in Asia and Eastern Europe
- Area: provide products through our frameworks to our members
- Group: Women Migrants Refugees Children
- Location: China
- Mitigation: through monitoring suppliers an engaging through electronics watch
- Risk: Workers in the hospitality industry both in the UK and abroad
- Area: spend within UKUPC frameworks with our members
- Group: Women Migrants Refugees
- Location: United Kingdom
- Mitigation: monitoring through UKUPC framework
- Risk: Lab supplies factories in Asia
- Area: spend through our frameworks
- Mitigation: suppliers on frameworks have to conform to the UKUPC Supply Chain Code of Conduct and the ETI base code
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
05 Data protection
ICO fee-payer registration
Southern Universities Management Services
Registration Z4876958
- Registered from
- 30 June 2000
- Current end date
- 29 June 2027
- Trading names
- SOUTHERN UNIVERSITIES PURCHASING CONSORTIUM, SUPC, SUMS
This is a candidate association, not an official Companies House link. The ICO file supplies no company number. The organisation name and postcode uniquely matched this company in the current snapshot. BritDB excludes all DPO contact fields and does not publish unmatched personal entries.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
SUMS Consulting
Owner Southern Universities Management Services · classes 35,41
- Filed / designated
- 10 January 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 10 January 2027
SUMS Consulting working for universities owned by universities
Owner Southern Universities Management Services · classes 41
- Filed / designated
- 15 February 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 15 February 2026
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
No individual or entity with signficant control
- Notified
- 8 July 2016
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
SOUTHERN UNIVERSITIES MANAGEMENT SERVICES
- Charity type
- Charitable company
- Registered
- 18 November 1994
- Latest income
- £4,848,050
- Latest expenditure
- £4,813,660
- Provides Services
- Education/training
- Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
- Provides Advocacy/advice/information
To promote the efficiency of the administration of educational charities in direct pursuit of their objectives by:(a) advice, training and information about financial planning, effective management procedures, and the best use of available resources, and(b) other assistance appropriate to the provision of financial planning, procedural advice and resource management.
Source details and official record →This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
Library Subscription Services
Southern Universities Management Services (SUMS) · updated 27 July 2026
- Tender value
- £350,000,000
- Awards
- 0
Framework Agreement for Servers, Storage, High Performance Computing & Managed Infrastructure
Southern Universities Management Services (SUMS) · updated 26 February 2026
- Tender value
- £3,000,000,000
- Awards
- 0
Framework Agreement for Servers, Storage, High Performance Computing & Managed Infrastructure
Southern Universities Management Services (SUMS) · updated 26 February 2026
- Tender value
- £3,000,000,000
- Awards
- 0
Responsible Procurement
Southern Universities Management Services (SUMS) · updated 15 October 2025
- Tender value
- £0
- Awards
- 0
Responsible Procurement
Southern Universities Management Services (SUMS) · updated 11 June 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
Education Recruitment Advertising and Resourcing Services (National) NERARS
Southern Universities Management Services (SUMS) · updated 1 April 2025
- Tender value
- Not supplied
- Awards
- 0
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
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12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
1 exact company-number link.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
5 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Privacy-reduced candidate associations based on a unique exact name-and-postcode match.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.