Spend profile

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

£3.9bn
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£8.0m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Department for the Economy — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£1073m£2145m£3218m£4290mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

7

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£110k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
1 recorded contract worth £220k end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services85 · £756.8m
Unspecified15 · £196.1m
goods9 · £1.1m

Instrument type

contract109 · £954.0m
Source:Find a Tender: 109

Awarded contracts · 7 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Department for the Economy 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
CG
4 contracts · 01 Aug
£215.4mest.
2
DA
3 contracts · 01 Aug
£214.0mest.
3
CT
4 contracts · SME · 01 Aug
£210.8mest.
4
2L
4 contracts · SME · 01 Aug
£210.8mest.
5
BE
4 contracts · SME · 01 Aug
£210.8mest.
6
DL
4 contracts · SME · 01 Aug
£210.8mest.
7
DY
3 contracts · SME · 01 Aug
£210.8mest.
8
IT
4 contracts · 01 Aug
£210.8mest.
9114
···
106 other suppliers
long tail · 75 SMEs
£2.9bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
87 contracts
£13.2bn
95%
Architecture, engineering
33 contracts
£201.9m
1%
Education, training
36 contracts
£194.7m
1%
Radio, TV, communications
1 contract
£81.0m
1%
Support transport services
1 contract
£75.0m
1%
Sewage, waste, environment
4 contracts
£36.2m
0%
Software packages, IT
1 contract
£35.0m
0%
Business, legal, advisory
15 contracts
£19.7m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
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Other
3900
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1
0
0
Architecture, engineering
Education, training
Radio, TV, communications
Support transport services
Sewage, waste, environment
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.

Department for the Economy 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.

72%
SME supplier share
target 33%
130
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
114
Distinct suppliers
68%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
61%
Local suppliers (BT postcodes)
33 of 54 with known office
90%
Value to local suppliers
£6.4bn of £7.1bn
47%
Postcode coverage
54 of 114 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the BT postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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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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