Spend profile

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

£6.4m
12 m spend
£49k
Prior 12 m
+13079%
YoY change
£988k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Department for Communities — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£883k£1.8m£2.6m£3.5mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

5

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services93 · £333.3m
works5 · £79.3m
Unspecified13 · £5.5m
goods5 · £5.3m

Instrument type

contract116 · £423.5m
Source:Find a Tender: 115Contracts Finder: 1

Awarded contracts · 9 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Department for Communities 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
GS
£140.0mest.
2
WT
1 contract · SME
£75.0mest.
3
EI
1 contract · SME
£35.0mest.
4
RR
£12.0mest.
5
DM
£10.5mest.
6
WS
2 contracts · SME · 15 Jan
£6.4mest.
7
SS
1 contract · SME
£5.0mest.
8
FM
1 contract
£4.3mest.
964
···
56 other suppliers
long tail · 33 SMEs
£28.8m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
17 contracts
£456.3m
63%
Support transport services
2 contracts
£80.0m
11%
Architecture, engineering
4 contracts
£61.0m
8%
Sewage, waste, environment
7 contracts
£37.9m
5%
Software packages, IT
2 contracts
£35.0m
5%
Construction works
2 contracts
£19.3m
3%
Education, training
18 contracts
£17.6m
2%
IT services, software
14 contracts
£13.7m
2%

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 · 1 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 1 notice 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.

57%
SME supplier share
target 33%
46
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
64
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
UKN06
Contact
SSDAdmin.CPDfinance-ni.gov.uk
Email
SSDAdmin.CPD@finance-ni.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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