Spend profile

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

£473.1m
12 m spend
£159.4m
Prior 12 m
+197%
YoY change
£301k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Department for Business & Trade — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£42m£83m£125m£167mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

51

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

31

£126.9m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified484 · £516.5m
services105 · £427.9m
works1 · £25.0m
goods10 · £3.7m

Instrument type

contract584 · £870.8m
call off16 · £102.2m
Source:Find a Tender: 342Contracts Finder: 258

Awarded contracts · 163 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Department for Business & Trade 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
£125.0m
2
WL
1 contract · 05 Jun
£80.0m
3
UK
£60.3mest.
4
IL
2 contracts · SME · 20 Mar
£54.0mest.
5
EB
£48.0mest.
6
EY
6 contracts · 13 Apr13 May
£29.0m
7
PS
1 contract · 22 Jun
£28.2m
8
EG
1 contract
£25.0mest.
9361
···
353 other suppliers
long tail · 162 SMEs
£452.7m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
268 contracts
£904.2m
61%
Business, legal, advisory
74 contracts
£291.4m
20%
IT services, software
53 contracts
£116.7m
8%
Software packages, IT
50 contracts
£57.4m
4%
Architecture, engineering
27 contracts
£50.0m
3%
Construction materials
2 contracts
£28.7m
2%
R&D services
54 contracts
£25.5m
2%
Education, training
31 contracts
£8.5m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Other
1
2
1
0
151
5
1
81
0
Business, legal, advisory
0
1
19
2
1
0
129
0
3
1
4
IT services, software
1
0
4
5
3
1
2
Software packages, IT
1
1
0
2
1
0
0
0
29
Architecture, engineering
0
0
Construction materials
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.

40%
SME supplier share
target 33%
214
SME award rows
3
VCSE award rows
361
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
UKI32
Email
CommercialMarEvents@businessandtrade.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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