Spend profile

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

£170.5m
12 m spend
£178.6m
Prior 12 m
-5%
YoY change
£75k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Dartford Borough Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£48m£95m£143m£190mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

1

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

3

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

8

£973k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified502 · £667.6m
works22 · £273.4m
goods6 · £170.0m
services31 · £72.1m

Instrument type

contract451 · £872.2m
call off110 · £310.9m
Source:Contracts Finder: 304Find a Tender: 257

Awarded contracts · 98 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Dartford 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
UL
1 contract · 25 Sept
£121.3m
2
LU
4 contracts · SME · 27 Sept22 Oct
£109.3mest.
3
OE
2 contracts · SME · 22 Oct
£109.3mest.
4
OD
2 contracts · SME · 22 Oct
£109.3mest.
5
BO
2 contracts · SME · 22 Oct
£109.3mest.
6
AE
1 contract · 01 Apr
£90.0m
7
MD
1 contract · 19 Sept
£85.0m
8
AC
2 contracts · SME · 22 Oct
£81.0mest.
9271
···
263 other suppliers
long tail · 150 SMEs
£444.1m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Clothing, footwear
8 contracts
£1.2bn
57%
Sewage, waste, environment
25 contracts
£261.9m
13%
Food, beverages, tobacco
10 contracts
£170.2m
8%
Other
180 contracts
£158.8m
8%
Construction works
63 contracts
£155.8m
7%
Real estate
3 contracts
£92.8m
4%
Construction materials
9 contracts
£53.1m
3%
Architecture, engineering
32 contracts
£7.5m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Clothing, footwear
Sewage, waste, environment
62
Food, beverages, tobacco
Other
0
7
1
0
4
0
91
0
Construction works
Real estate
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 · 2 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 2 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.

62%
SME supplier share
target 33%
293
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
271
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
UKJ43
Contact
Dartford Borough Council Procurement Team
Email
procurement@dartford.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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