Spend profile

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

£24.4m
12 m spend
£335.1m
Prior 12 m
-93%
YoY change
£78k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Darlington Borough Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£84m£168m£252m£336mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

9

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

26

£4.2m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified916 · £488.7m
services67 · £29.1m
works8 · £0
goods9 · £0

Instrument type

contract985 · £517.0m
call off15 · £765k
Source:Contracts Finder: 859Find a Tender: 141

Awarded contracts · 303 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Darlington Borough 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
EH
3 contracts · SME · 20 Feb
£300.0m
2
IN
3 contracts · SME · 04 Jan14 Aug
£15.6mest.
3
RT
10 contracts · SME · 18 Dec20 Dec
£15.5mest.
4
MB
£15.2mest.
5
HT
1 contract · SME
£15.0mest.
6
AL
2 contracts · SME · 24 May
£8.9m
7
MS
3 contracts · SME · 08 Apr
£8.2m
8
SN
3 contracts · SME · 07 Oct
£7.3m
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···
528 other suppliers
long tail · 321 SMEs
£171.9m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
84 contracts
£320.8m
57%
Health & social work
432 contracts
£107.8m
19%
Other
98 contracts
£98.2m
17%
Education, training
122 contracts
£30.2m
5%
Construction materials
20 contracts
£3.4m
1%
Architecture, engineering
18 contracts
£2.3m
0%
Public utilities
3 contracts
£2.1m
0%
Software packages, IT
17 contracts
£1.9m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

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Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Construction works
Health & social work
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
Other
4
2
2
10
2
Education, training
Construction materials
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 · 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.

Darlington Borough 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.

59%
SME supplier share
target 33%
543
SME award rows
56
VCSE award rows
536
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKC13
Contact
Michael Howlett
Email
corporate.procurement@darlington.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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