Spend profile

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

£76.1m
12 m spend
£31.3m
Prior 12 m
+143%
YoY change
£201k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Blackburn With Darwen Borough Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£7.3m£15m£22m£29mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

36

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

5

£3.3m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services134 · £896.3m
works25 · £740.6m
Unspecified677 · £666.6m
goods24 · £16.1m

Instrument type

contract774 · £2.3bn
call off86 · £57.1m
Source:Contracts Finder: 609Find a Tender: 251

Awarded contracts · 77 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Blackburn With Darwen 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
BC
4 contracts · 18 Dec25 Feb
£96.5m
2
VM
2 contracts · 05 Aug21 Sept
£69.5m
3
TC
6 contracts · 18 Dec21 Apr
£68.3m
4
EW
2 contracts · 18 Dec03 Apr
£60.1m
5
SG
1 contract · 18 Dec
£60.0m
6
IB
1 contract · 18 Dec
£60.0m
7
SR
2 contracts · 14 Jan24 Mar
£38.4m
8
CL
3 contracts
£12.7mest.
9423
···
415 other suppliers
long tail · 253 SMEs
£429.1m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
210 contracts
£1.4bn
49%
Health & social work
57 contracts
£498.0m
18%
Education, training
12 contracts
£304.2m
11%
Construction materials
23 contracts
£202.1m
7%
Other community services
30 contracts
£166.7m
6%
Transport equipment, vehicles
30 contracts
£135.0m
5%
Other
123 contracts
£80.1m
3%
Leather, textiles
1 contract
£48.6m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Construction works
2
10
0
20
8
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Health & social work
Education, training
Construction materials
Other community services
Transport equipment, vehicles
1
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.

Blackburn With Darwen Borough Council 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.

58%
SME supplier share
target 33%
382
SME award rows
25
VCSE award rows
423
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
UKD41
Companies House
00644062
Contact
Luke Smith
Email
procurement@blackburn.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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