Spend profile

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

£121.4m
12 m spend
£63.9m
Prior 12 m
+90%
YoY change
£1.6m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Atomic Weapons Establishment — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£33m£67m£100m£133mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

55

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£430k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services42 · £2.7bn
works17 · £2.4bn
Unspecified88 · £456.3m
goods47 · £210.6m

Instrument type

contract192 · £5.7bn
call off2 · £140.3m
Source:Find a Tender: 138Contracts Finder: 56

Awarded contracts · 17 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Atomic Weapons Establishment 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
WS
11 contracts · 09 Dec13 Apr
£414.1mest.
2
MW
£121.0m
3
PC
1 contract · 11 Dec
£72.0m
4
RE
3 contracts · 30 Oct01 Dec
£66.7m
5
EE
2 contracts · 17 Mar01 Apr
£61.3m
6
MC
2 contracts · 03 Apr13 Dec
£52.8m
7
MF
1 contract · 29 Jan
£27.3m
8
BO
2 contracts · 19 Nov
£19.3m
954
···
46 other suppliers
long tail · 8 SMEs
£32.6m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
59 contracts
£1.6bn
29%
Repair & maintenance
2 contracts
£950.1m
17%
Architecture, engineering
4 contracts
£907.8m
17%
Electrical machinery
4 contracts
£772.5m
14%
Business, legal, advisory
12 contracts
£743.8m
14%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
9 contracts
£273.6m
5%
Construction works
3 contracts
£123.0m
2%
Furniture, cleaning
6 contracts
£121.6m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

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Repair & maintenance
Architecture, engineering
Electrical machinery
121
Business, legal, advisory
Petroleum, fuel, energy
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 · 0 in 90 d

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

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

Atomic Weapons Establishment has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

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.

15%
SME supplier share
target 33%
13
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
54
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 15% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKJ11
Companies House
02763902
Contact
Attn: Project LYRA Procurement Team
Email
aweprocurement@awe.co.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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