Spend profile

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

£1.5m
12 m spend
£5.4m
Prior 12 m
-72%
YoY change
£223k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Bedford College — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£413k£826k£1.2m£1.7mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

6

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified49 · £34.5m
works4 · £10.6m
services26 · £10.5m
goods2 · £0

Instrument type

call off28 · £31.8m
contract53 · £23.7m
Source:Contracts Finder: 49Find a Tender: 32

Awarded contracts · 5 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Bedford College 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
TC
2 contracts · 22 Dec
£11.4mest.
2
AC
2 contracts · 20 Jul05 Jan
£8.5m
3
BF
3 contracts · SME · 06 Jul23 Jul
£8.0mest.
4
CT
6 contracts · SME · 15 Aug15 Apr
£6.0mest.
5
CC
£2.0m
6
BF
£1.8mest.
7
DF
1 contract · 24 Jul
£1.7m
8
AJ
£1.5m
933
···
25 other suppliers
long tail · 9 SMEs
£6.2m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
11 contracts
£21.5m
46%
Other
8 contracts
£11.5m
24%
Sewage, waste, environment
6 contracts
£6.6m
14%
Transport services
5 contracts
£4.7m
10%
Financial, insurance
1 contract
£1.5m
3%
Architecture, engineering
10 contracts
£726k
2%
Office equipment, IT
3 contracts
£474k
1%
Business, legal, advisory
1 contract
£223k
0%

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.

Bedford College 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.

47%
SME supplier share
target 33%
23
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
33
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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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
UKH24
Contact
Craig Pullen
Email
craig@cpconsulting.org.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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