Spend profile

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

£261.6m
12 m spend
£825k
Prior 12 m
+31621%
YoY change
£2.3m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Cardiff Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£51m£102m£153m£205mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

117

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

6

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

11

£203.3m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

works74 · £4.3bn
services840 · £2.3bn
goods48 · £246.0m
Unspecified38 · £84.8m

Instrument type

contract1000 · £6.9bn
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Awarded contracts · 35 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Cardiff 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
JP
£1.9bnest.
2
EC
3 contracts · SME
£1.0bnest.
3
RW
2 contracts · SME
£937.1mest.
4
MM
£931.5mest.
5
TD
£931.5mest.
6
WB
1 contract · SME
£931.5mest.
7
PL
£931.5mest.
8
SC
£931.5mest.
9356
···
348 other suppliers
long tail · 205 SMEs
£17.4bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
99 contracts
£55.6bn
95%
Other
674 contracts
£1.1bn
2%
Health & social work
60 contracts
£879.9m
1%
Food, beverages, tobacco
151 contracts
£339.7m
1%
Architecture, engineering
27 contracts
£308.1m
1%
Mining machinery
32 contracts
£248.2m
0%
Radio, TV, communications
33 contracts
£200.0m
0%
Business, legal, advisory
55 contracts
£99.1m
0%

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
Other
0
6
1
5
1
1
43
13
4
186
0
Health & social work
Food, beverages, tobacco
Architecture, engineering
Mining machinery
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 · 13 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 13 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.

50%
SME supplier share
target 33%
502
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
356
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
UKL22
Contact
William Charles
Email
william.charles4@cardiff.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.

Resources

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