At a glance
Ashford Borough Council has awarded £294.8m across 201 suppliers, with 173 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 14% · 55 open notices now · 11 awards in last 90 d (£2.6m) · SME share 58% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
Ashford Borough Council is a contracting authority, based in UKJ45. Tracks 420 published notices and 313 awards on PublicSupply.
Spend profile
Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.
Contract pipeline
Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.
Planned
41
Open (bidding)
55
Awarded (90d)
11
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 173 live
All contracts with a published award notice where Ashford Borough Council is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Provision of stairlifts, floor lifts and maintenance | Stannah Lift Services Ltd | 44115600 | £255k | 02 Jun 2026 | active |
| Cycling Consultancy Rural | Aecom Ltd | 71311200 | £45k | 18 May 2026 | active |
| AI Document Check Solution | Cospire Technologies Private Limited | £135kest. | — | active | |
| Extension and associated works to 23 Barnett Field | — | 45000000 | £350kest. | — | active |
| Quantity Surveyor (Tanyard) | Kent Construction Consultants Limited | 71250000 | £140k | 23 Apr 2026 | active |
| IDIS Data Hub | INTEC FOR BUSINESS LIMITED | 48000000 | £159k | 14 Apr 2026 | active |
| Tenant Satisfaction Surveys | The Leadership Factor Ltd | £65kest. | — | active | |
| Specialist Arts Centre Business Planner | — | 79400000 | £25kest. | — | active |
| Preliminary Market Engagement for Park Mall Redevelopment | — | 45111291 | £120.0mest. | — | planning |
| Water Supply and Sewerage Services | Anglian Water Business (National) Limited T/A Wave | 65100000 | £303k | 09 Feb 2026 | active |
Top suppliers · by total award value
Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.
Category spend breakdown
By CPV division · lifetime awards
Activity heatmap
Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.
Commercial & procurement leadership
Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.
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 · 1 in 90 d
Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.
Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging
We see 1 notice 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.
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.
target 33%
Peer benchmark
vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.
Compare against the peer group
£149 / seat / month. Configurable peer groups, rolling trendlines, and CSV / PDF exports for board packs.
News mentions
Major UK press & trade publications.
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Statutory & accountability
Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.
Identifiers & contact
- Type
- Contracting authority
- Region
- UKJ45
- Contact
- Stephanie Leonard
- procurement.email@ashford.gov.uk
Board & accountable officers
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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