Spend profile

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

£152.4m
12 m spend
£380.6m
Prior 12 m
-60%
YoY change
£667k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Dorset Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£87m£173m£260m£347mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

40

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

3

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

5

£10.0m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services171 · £4.7bn
Unspecified292 · £2.6bn
works34 · £930.0m
goods34 · £202.8m

Instrument type

contract425 · £7.2bn
call off106 · £1.2bn
Source:Contracts Finder: 284Find a Tender: 247

Awarded contracts · 109 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Dorset Council 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
SM
1 contract · SME
£2.0bnest.
2
AC
£1.0bnest.
3
PP
1 contract · SME
£1.0bnest.
4
HQ
2 contracts · SME · 15 Feb12 Oct
£501.1m
5
OH
£400.0mest.
6
HF
1 contract · SME
£400.0mest.
7
PC
£400.0mest.
8
HC
£400.0mest.
9631
···
623 other suppliers
long tail · 525 SMEs
£4.8bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Health & social work
202 contracts
£39.0bn
92%
Construction works
113 contracts
£1.4bn
3%
Construction materials
53 contracts
£485.9m
1%
Electrical machinery
39 contracts
£400.0m
1%
Transport services
11 contracts
£328.0m
1%
Sewage, waste, environment
36 contracts
£305.7m
1%
Agriculture, forestry services
57 contracts
£270.8m
1%
Other
49 contracts
£264.7m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Health & social work
1
Construction works
Construction materials
3
Electrical machinery
Transport services
7
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 · 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.

84%
SME supplier share
target 33%
760
SME award rows
341
VCSE award rows
631
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
UKK25
Companies House
02109168
Contact
Mrs Bryony Blair
Email
bryony.blair@dorsetcouncil.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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