Spend profile

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

£90.2m
12 m spend
£98.1m
Prior 12 m
-8%
YoY change
£3.0m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Cumberland Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£16m£32m£48m£65mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

43

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

16

£60.1m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services678 · £748.3m
works28 · £648.8m
Unspecified271 · £256.5m
goods23 · £39.0m

Instrument type

contract950 · £1.5bn
call off50 · £151.1m
Source:Find a Tender: 789Contracts Finder: 211

Awarded contracts · 123 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Cumberland 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
DC
5 contracts · SME · 19 Mar
£198.8mest.
2
FP
2 contracts · SME
£85.0mest.
3
JB
£85.0mest.
4
TN
£79.2mest.
5
SC
£78.3mest.
6
RC
2 contracts · SME · 14 Oct
£77.6mest.
7
TS
5 contracts · SME · 22 Apr29 May
£75.0mest.
8
TL
3 contracts · SME · 23 Apr29 May
£75.0mest.
9505
···
497 other suppliers
long tail · 377 SMEs
£8.4bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Transport services
116 contracts
£7.3bn
42%
Construction works
116 contracts
£5.6bn
32%
Other
718 contracts
£3.4bn
20%
Education, training
143 contracts
£548.0m
3%
Health & social work
86 contracts
£251.5m
1%
Medical, pharmaceutical
3 contracts
£80.5m
0%
Repair & maintenance
9 contracts
£20.5m
0%
Transport equipment, vehicles
9 contracts
£15.4m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Transport services
0
0
0
0
Construction works
0
0
Other
0
15
6
1
6
57
0
1
Education, training
0
1
0
Health & social work
Medical, pharmaceutical
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.

Cumberland 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.

70%
SME supplier share
target 33%
865
SME award rows
6
VCSE award rows
505
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
UKG13
Contact
Alan Young
Email
Alan.Young@Cumberland.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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