Spend profile

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

£5.0m
12 m spend
£17.1m
Prior 12 m
-71%
YoY change
£72k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
The City of Liverpool College — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£1.9m£3.8m£5.7m£7.6mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

14

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

24

£4.2m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified351 · £30.8m
services37 · £18.8m
works14 · £11.3m
goods11 · £1.5m

Instrument type

contract411 · £62.3m
call off2 · £95k
Source:Contracts Finder: 256Find a Tender: 157

Awarded contracts · 121 live

All contracts with a published award notice where The City of Liverpool College 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
FT
2 contracts · SME
£25.0mest.
2
OT
£25.0mest.
3
TD
2 contracts · SME
£25.0mest.
4
SB
6 contracts · SME · 29 Aug19 Jun
£13.1mest.
5
SP
1 contract · SME
£12.5mest.
6
SB
1 contract · SME
£12.5mest.
7
BD
1 contract · SME
£12.5mest.
8
FR
4 contracts · SME · 21 May07 Jul
£8.9mest.
9171
···
163 other suppliers
long tail · 48 SMEs
£46.3m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
159 contracts
£174.5m
91%
Construction works
17 contracts
£5.1m
3%
Sewage, waste, environment
5 contracts
£3.4m
2%
Education, training
19 contracts
£3.2m
2%
Business, legal, advisory
17 contracts
£2.2m
1%
Architecture, engineering
6 contracts
£2.2m
1%
Construction materials
5 contracts
£1.0m
1%
Food, beverages, tobacco
10 contracts
£971k
1%

Activity heatmap

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

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Other
0
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0
1
0
Construction works
0
Sewage, waste, environment
Education, training
0
Business, legal, advisory
1
Architecture, engineering
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.

35%
SME supplier share
target 33%
105
SME award rows
3
VCSE award rows
171
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
UKD72
Contact
Tina Smith
Email
payments@liv-coll.ac.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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