Spend profile

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

£13.7m
12 m spend
£99.1m
Prior 12 m
-86%
YoY change
£180k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Chelmsford City Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£24m£48m£72m£96mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

2

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

12

£3.1m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

works14 · £502.9m
Unspecified292 · £142.6m
services47 · £35.6m
goods17 · £1.9m

Instrument type

contract365 · £682.1m
call off5 · £852k
Source:Contracts Finder: 269Find a Tender: 101

Awarded contracts · 50 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Chelmsford City 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
AE
2 contracts · 25 Mar
£86.0m
2
CP
1 contract · 26 Jun
£10.0m
3
HS
2 contracts · 01 Oct
£4.5m
4
MH
1 contract · SME · 01 Feb
£3.4m
5
CE
£2.5mest.
6
LD
2 contracts · SME · 15 Nov
£2.3mest.
7
AH
1 contract · SME · 06 May
£2.1m
8
DT
3 contracts · SME · 05 Aug16 Sept
£2.1mest.
9177
···
169 other suppliers
long tail · 82 SMEs
£33.5m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Electrical machinery
4 contracts
£500.3m
75%
Construction works
44 contracts
£98.1m
15%
Repair & maintenance
8 contracts
£15.1m
2%
Other
58 contracts
£15.0m
2%
Other community services
2 contracts
£10.0m
2%
Support transport services
1 contract
£10.0m
2%
Real estate
9 contracts
£10.0m
1%
Business, legal, advisory
9 contracts
£7.8m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

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Electrical machinery
Construction works
Repair & maintenance
Other
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1
2
Other community services
Support 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 · 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.

Chelmsford City 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.

49%
SME supplier share
target 33%
114
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
177
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
UKH36
Contact
Harrison Crick
Email
harrison.crick@chelmsford.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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