Spend profile

Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.

£13.6m
12 m spend
£204k
Prior 12 m
+6570%
YoY change
£650k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Ards and North Down Borough Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£1.9m£3.7m£5.6m£7.5mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.

Planned

7

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

3

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

3

£505k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
7 recorded contracts worth £892k end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.

Contract type

services110 · £387.4m
goods31 · £59.8m
works8 · £19.7m
Unspecified24 · £11.7m

Instrument type

contract173 · £478.7m
Source:Find a Tender: 173

Awarded contracts · 15 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Ards and North Down Borough Council is the contracting authority.

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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
BM
2 contracts · SME · 21 Nov
£105.0mest.
2
LP
2 contracts · SME
£41.0mest.
3
CR
1 contract · SME
£25.0mest.
4
ML
£13.5mest.
5
TN
£9.0mest.
6
WT
£9.0mest.
7
WB
£9.0mest.
8
FL
1 contract · SME
£9.0mest.
9103
···
95 other suppliers
long tail · 73 SMEs
£96.8m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Petroleum, fuel, energy
36 contracts
£756.0m
64%
Business, legal, advisory
28 contracts
£132.1m
11%
Other
43 contracts
£131.0m
11%
Education, training
11 contracts
£90.2m
8%
Security, emergency equipment
29 contracts
£19.5m
2%
Sewage, waste, environment
20 contracts
£16.1m
1%
Radio, TV, communications
2 contracts
£15.0m
1%
Transport equipment, vehicles
2 contracts
£13.8m
1%

Activity heatmap

Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.

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Petroleum, fuel, energy
Business, legal, advisory
Other
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1
Education, training
Security, emergency equipment
Sewage, waste, environment
LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

Coming Q3 2026

Curated leadership roster

Chief commercial officer, framework owners, SME lead and clinical sign-offs per buyer. Top-50 contracting authorities first, rolling out by sector.

Modifications · 2 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 2 notices tagged with a modification flag in the last 90 d. Next phase parses each one against PA 2023 s.74 limbs and surfaces above-tolerance flags.

Compliance & transparency

FOIA performance, statutory disclosures & prompt payment.

Coming Q4 2026

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

Notice timeliness and modification flags are derivable today. FOIA refusal rate, prompt-payment %, KPI reporting and net-zero plans need new data sources — work scoped, ingestion next quarter.

SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

81%
SME supplier share
target 33%
112
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
103
Distinct suppliers
91%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
64%
Local suppliers (BT postcodes)
23 of 36 with known office
42%
Value to local suppliers
£91.2m of £218.8m
35%
Postcode coverage
36 of 103 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the BT postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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News mentions

Major UK press & trade publications.

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKN09
Contact
James Watton
Email
procurement@ardsandnorthdown.gov.uk

Board & accountable officers

Coming Q3 2026

Accountable officer + board roster

Pulled from gov.uk for arm's-length bodies and from Companies House for company-form buyers — chair, CEO, SRO and sign-off authority per contract band.

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