Spend profile

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

£114.2m
12 m spend
£1.6bn
Prior 12 m
-93%
YoY change
£1.9m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Essex County Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£433m£867m£1300m£1734mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

195

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

12

£37.7m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services421 · £23.7bn
works35 · £7.9bn
Unspecified501 · £3.5bn
goods43 · £9.7m

Instrument type

contract880 · £32.2bn
call off120 · £2.9bn
Source:Find a Tender: 571Contracts Finder: 429

Awarded contracts · 236 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Essex 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
AS
£2.0bnest.
2
HP
£2.0bnest.
3
PL
£500.0mest.
4
RL
1 contract · SME
£500.0mest.
5
ML
1 contract
£500.0mest.
6
PC
3 contracts · 07 Jan
£110.9mest.
7
PL
2 contracts · 14 Mar
£55.7mest.
8
GT
£55.6mest.
9775
···
767 other suppliers
long tail · 573 SMEs
£3.0bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
401 contracts
£15.6bn
35%
Construction works
37 contracts
£13.9bn
31%
Health & social work
365 contracts
£6.9bn
15%
Sewage, waste, environment
21 contracts
£4.3bn
10%
Business, legal, advisory
30 contracts
£2.5bn
6%
Electrical machinery
4 contracts
£1.1bn
3%
Agriculture, forestry services
5 contracts
£194.3m
0%
Education, training
126 contracts
£175.5m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

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Feb
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Other
7
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1
12
18
1
0
37
Construction works
Health & social work
Sewage, waste, environment
Business, legal, advisory
0
Electrical machinery
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 · 9 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 9 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.

75%
SME supplier share
target 33%
886
SME award rows
305
VCSE award rows
775
Distinct suppliers

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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
UKH36
Contact
Dave Grosch
Email
EPP@essex.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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