Spend profile

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

£1.3bn
12 m spend
£420k
Prior 12 m
+308312%
YoY change
£21.3m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
DfI Transport and Road Asset Management (TRAM) — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£221m£443m£664m£885mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

17

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

4

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

59

£1.3bn

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

works39 · £1.9bn
Unspecified30 · £122.6m
goods10 · £6.0m
services6 · £2.7m

Instrument type

contract85 · £2.0bn
Source:Find a Tender: 85

Awarded contracts · 73 live

All contracts with a published award notice where DfI Transport and Road Asset Management (TRAM) 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
FM
12 contracts · 12 May02 Jul
£203.0m
2
JM
12 contracts · SME · 12 May02 Jul
£191.0m
3
PK
12 contracts · SME · 12 May02 Jul
£172.0m
4
KB
7 contracts · 02 Jul
£100.0m
5
IE
4 contracts · SME · 02 Jul
£73.8m
6
GQ
5 contracts · SME · 12 May
£72.0m
7
NM
5 contracts · 12 May
£72.0m
8
WQ
2 contracts · 12 May
£48.0m
932
···
24 other suppliers
long tail · 17 SMEs
£61.6m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
83 contracts
£1.3bn
60%
Construction works
38 contracts
£880.6m
40%
Transport equipment, vehicles
3 contracts
£665k
0%
Repair & maintenance
1 contract
£350k
0%
Education, training
1 contract
£131k
0%

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
3
2
11
805
474
Construction works
Transport equipment, vehicles
Repair & maintenance
Education, training
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 · 14 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 14 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.

58%
SME supplier share
target 33%
58
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
32
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
Mark McDowell
Email
TRAMprocurement@infrastructure-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.

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