Spend profile

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

£241.1m
12 m spend
£7.2bn
Prior 12 m
-97%
YoY change
£328k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Crown Commercial Service — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£687m£1373m£2060m£2747mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

7

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
80 recorded contracts worth £9.4bn end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

works2 · £80.0bn
Unspecified985 · £75.2bn
goods4 · £3.5bn
services9 · £2.9bn

Instrument type

contract967 · £134.1bn
call off33 · £27.5bn
Source:Contracts Finder: 985Find a Tender: 15

Awarded contracts · 164 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Crown Commercial Service 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
AM
2 contracts · 16 Jan09 May
£15.0bn
2
PS
5 contracts · 01 Dec01 May
£2.2bn
3
GL
1 contract · SME · 26 Mar
£1.5bn
4
LO
£1.2bn
5
HR
1 contract · SME · 27 Feb
£728.6m
6
TL
1 contract · SME · 27 Feb
£728.6m
7
RT
1 contract · SME · 27 Feb
£728.6m
8
HR
1 contract · SME · 27 Feb
£728.6m
9585
···
577 other suppliers
long tail · 275 SMEs
£14.0bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Electrical machinery
8 contracts
£88.9bn
60%
Business, legal, advisory
248 contracts
£18.0bn
12%
Support transport services
4 contracts
£11.5bn
8%
Transport equipment, vehicles
23 contracts
£8.6bn
6%
IT services, software
157 contracts
£8.0bn
5%
Food, beverages, tobacco
2 contracts
£4.5bn
3%
Software packages, IT
125 contracts
£4.1bn
3%
Public utilities
16 contracts
£4.0bn
3%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Electrical machinery
Business, legal, advisory
0
0
0
Support transport services
Transport equipment, vehicles
IT services, software
1
3
Food, beverages, tobacco
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.

Crown Commercial Service 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.

39%
SME supplier share
target 33%
384
SME award rows
7
VCSE award rows
585
Distinct suppliers
38%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
1%
Local suppliers (L postcodes)
3 of 283 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£112.3m of £30.4bn
48%
Postcode coverage
283 of 585 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the L postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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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
UK
Contact
The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service
Email
supplier@crowncommercial.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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