Quick answer — Bracknell Forest Borough CouncilLast refreshed 12 May 2026

At a glance

Bracknell Forest Borough Council has awarded £13.5bn across 158 suppliers, with 240 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 15% · 65 open notices now · 21 awards in last 90 d (£3.2m) · SME share 54% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 6 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration15%
Modifications · 90 d6
SME spend share54%
Pipeline · open now65
Awards · 90 d21

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Bracknell Forest Borough Council is a contracting authority, based in UK. Tracks 364 published notices and 241 awards on PublicSupply.

364
Notices published
241
Awards
158
Suppliers engaged
2016
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£102.4m
12 m spend
£59.4m
Prior 12 m
+72%
YoY change
£895k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Bracknell Forest Borough Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£15m£30m£46m£61mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

61

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

65

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

21

£3.2m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services134 · £237.1bn
Unspecified193 · £1.4bn
works25 · £209.5m
goods12 · £1.3m

Instrument type

contract284 · £237.5bn
call off80 · £1.1bn
Source:Find a Tender: 193Contracts Finder: 171

Awarded contracts · 240 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Bracknell Forest Borough Council is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Education Transport60130000£35.0mest.active
Staff e-learning platformLearning Pool48000000£152k27 Feb 2026active
Alarm Monitoring Software as a ServiceE.Novation UK Ltd£80k12 May 2026active
Alarm Monitoring Software as a ServiceE.Novation UK Ltd£80k12 May 2026active
Alarm Monitoring Software as a ServiceE.Novation UK Ltd£80k12 May 2026active
BIKEABILITY CYCLE TRAININGAVANTI CYCLING LTD£475k12 May 2026pending
Alarm Monitoring Software as a ServiceE.Novation UK Ltd£80kpending
Older People Residential Care Frameworkwithdrawn
Transformation PartnerIMPOWER Consulting Ltd79400000£397k12 May 2026active
Home to School Transport Dynamic Market60170000planned
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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
SM
1 contract · SME
£2.0bnest.
15% of total
2
PC
£1.8bnest.
13% of total
3
TP
4 contracts · SME
£1.5bnest.
11% of total
4
SC
£1.1bnest.
8% of total
5
CP
£1.0bn
7% of total
6
CT
£809.5mest.
6% of total
7
PP
3 contracts · SME
£809.5mest.
6% of total
8
HC
£761.9mest.
6% of total
9158
···
150 other suppliers
long tail · 65 SMEs
£3.8bn
28% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Health & social work
160 contracts
£308.7bn
99%
Construction works
30 contracts
£1.0bn
0%
Other
114 contracts
£361.1m
0%
Sewage, waste, environment
5 contracts
£192.7m
0%
Repair & maintenance
6 contracts
£101.3m
0%
Transport services
15 contracts
£95.8m
0%
Business, legal, advisory
16 contracts
£51.0m
0%
Electrical machinery
18 contracts
£36.9m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Health & social work
0
Construction works
9
Other
46
12
1
1
9
1
Sewage, waste, environment
Repair & maintenance
Transport 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 · 6 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 6 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.

54%
SME supplier share
target 33%
130
SME award rows
4
VCSE award rows
158
Distinct suppliers

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UK
Contact
Mr Ben Sawyer
Email
Ben.Sawyer@Bracknell-Forest.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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