Spend profile

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

£1.7bn
12 m spend
£2.1m
Prior 12 m
+81134%
YoY change
£200k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£451m£902m£1353m£1803mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

34

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

14

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

36

£56.9m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services388 · £2.2bn
Unspecified562 · £372.7m
goods45 · £61.1m
works5 · £620k

Instrument type

contract906 · £2.6bn
call off94 · £33.8m
Source:Find a Tender: 568Contracts Finder: 432

Awarded contracts · 120 live

All contracts with a published award notice where BRITISH COUNCIL(THE) 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
PC
1 contract · SME · 17 Mar
£268.8m
2
BL
1 contract · SME · 17 Mar
£237.2m
3
GE
1 contract · SME · 17 Mar
£170.7m
4
NM
1 contract · SME · 17 Mar
£166.0m
5
C4
1 contract · SME · 17 Mar
£156.5m
6
PM
1 contract · SME · 17 Mar
£142.3m
7
FO
1 contract · SME · 17 Mar
£94.9m
8
TC
2 contracts · 01 Mar29 Aug
£78.7m
9428
···
420 other suppliers
long tail · 266 SMEs
£605.6m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
214 contracts
£1.8bn
43%
Support transport services
9 contracts
£1.2bn
28%
Business, legal, advisory
136 contracts
£896.7m
22%
IT services, software
50 contracts
£84.7m
2%
Financial, insurance
3 contracts
£79.6m
2%
Office equipment, IT
6 contracts
£57.0m
1%
Education, training
147 contracts
£45.5m
1%
Postal, telecoms
13 contracts
£37.6m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Other
1
2
39
1
0
3
1639
8
2
48
Support transport services
Business, legal, advisory
IT services, software
Financial, insurance
Office equipment, IT
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 · 4 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 4 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.

63%
SME supplier share
target 33%
311
SME award rows
21
VCSE award rows
428
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
UKI41
Companies House
RC000060
Charity no.
209131
Contact
Mauricio Zapata
Email
joshua.damsell@britishcouncil.org

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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