Spend profile

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

£27.4m
12 m spend
£72.8m
Prior 12 m
-62%
YoY change
£75k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Department for Culture, Media and Sport — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£9.4m£19m£28m£38mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

20

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

13

£12.6m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services28 · £1.1bn
Unspecified968 · £331.8m
goods4 · £63.7m

Instrument type

contract995 · £1.5bn
call off5 · £8.0m
Source:Contracts Finder: 918Find a Tender: 82

Awarded contracts · 50 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Department for Culture, Media and Sport 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
IE
£105.0mest.
2
IH
3 contracts · SME · 16 Sept06 Dec
£48.2m
3
AM
£19.5m
4
NP
1 contract · SME · 01 Dec
£18.0m
5
KP
5 contracts · 24 Jan02 Jun
£11.7m
6
SS
3 contracts · SME · 01 Jun26 Oct
£10.0m
7
IM
6 contracts · 21 Dec11 Jan
£10.0m
8
WL
1 contract · 05 Jun
£8.0m
9441
···
433 other suppliers
long tail · 211 SMEs
£206.3m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
326 contracts
£1.2bn
80%
Architecture, engineering
7 contracts
£105.6m
7%
R&D services
275 contracts
£89.8m
6%
IT services, software
93 contracts
£53.7m
4%
Other
53 contracts
£11.2m
1%
Radio, TV, communications
5 contracts
£10.6m
1%
Education, training
23 contracts
£8.9m
1%
Software packages, IT
37 contracts
£7.9m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Business, legal, advisory
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
Architecture, engineering
R&D services
0
1
1
3
1
1
0
0
0
IT services, software
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
Other
8
Radio, TV, communications
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 · 3 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 3 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.

39%
SME supplier share
target 33%
333
SME award rows
25
VCSE award rows
441
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
Contact
DCMS Commercial
Email
commercial@dcms.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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