Spend profile

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

£8.7bn
12 m spend
£201.2m
Prior 12 m
+4233%
YoY change
£122k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Durham County Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£2393m£4786m£7178m£9571mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

39

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

7

£816k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services145 · £4.8bn
Unspecified789 · £964.1m
works35 · £51.8m
goods31 · £7.9m

Instrument type

contract901 · £5.6bn
call off99 · £253.8m
Source:Contracts Finder: 679Find a Tender: 321

Awarded contracts · 185 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Durham County 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
VH
1 contract · 13 Mar
£300.0m
2
CC
1 contract · 13 Mar
£300.0m
3
YS
1 contract · SME · 13 Mar
£300.0m
4
SS
1 contract · SME · 13 Mar
£300.0m
5
PC
1 contract · SME · 13 Mar
£300.0m
6
DC
1 contract · 13 Mar
£300.0m
7
PC
1 contract · 13 Mar
£300.0m
8
KP
1 contract · SME · 13 Mar
£300.0m
9699
···
691 other suppliers
long tail · 347 SMEs
£1.3bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
215 contracts
£8.7bn
61%
Financial, insurance
5 contracts
£3.5bn
25%
Health & social work
146 contracts
£1.4bn
10%
Construction works
129 contracts
£201.2m
1%
Hotel, restaurant, retail
6 contracts
£128.3m
1%
Sewage, waste, environment
39 contracts
£102.6m
1%
Food, beverages, tobacco
3 contracts
£100.3m
1%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
3 contracts
£84.0m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Other
10
1
8700
0
0
Financial, insurance
Health & social work
0
Construction works
0
1
0
Hotel, restaurant, retail
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 · 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.

46%
SME supplier share
target 33%
464
SME award rows
84
VCSE award rows
699
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
UKC14
Companies House
01892372
Contact
Kelly Stewart
Email
kstew@durham.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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