Spend profile

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

£23.4m
12 m spend
£68.6m
Prior 12 m
-66%
YoY change
£125k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Bedford Borough Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£14m£28m£42m£56mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

33

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

3

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

46

£4.4m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services182 · £347.2m
Unspecified790 · £281.1m
works22 · £232.5m
goods6 · £320k

Instrument type

contract998 · £861.2m
call off2 · £0
Source:Contracts Finder: 653Find a Tender: 347

Awarded contracts · 157 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Bedford 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
FC
1 contract · SME
£118.0mest.
2
SC
£118.0mest.
3
BC
2 contracts · 13 May
£77.0mest.
4
NL
1 contract · 10 Jan
£36.0m
5
HQ
£30.0mest.
6
EC
2 contracts · 01 Oct
£14.1mest.
7
HL
3 contracts · 27 Oct05 Jan
£14.0mest.
8
DS
4 contracts · SME · 10 Mar27 Aug
£13.5mest.
9639
···
631 other suppliers
long tail · 244 SMEs
£245.2m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
193 contracts
£324.0m
33%
Construction works
57 contracts
£263.7m
27%
Health & social work
255 contracts
£118.7m
12%
Transport equipment, vehicles
31 contracts
£69.9m
7%
Business, legal, advisory
46 contracts
£60.1m
6%
Other community services
10 contracts
£51.1m
5%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
7 contracts
£50.8m
5%
Sewage, waste, environment
21 contracts
£36.7m
4%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Other
0
0
7
4
0
1
3
Construction works
0
Health & social work
Transport equipment, vehicles
Business, legal, advisory
1
Other community services
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.

39%
SME supplier share
target 33%
325
SME award rows
18
VCSE award rows
639
Distinct suppliers

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
UKH24
Companies House
04085767
Contact
Uchenna Akintayo
Email
Commercial.Hub@bedford.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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