Spend profile

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

£14.4m
12 m spend
£269.8m
Prior 12 m
-95%
YoY change
£91k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Food Standards Agency — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£69m£138m£207m£275mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

15

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

7

£3.9m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
27 recorded contracts worth £13.9m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified707 · £1.8bn
services239 · £319.6m
goods2 · £216k

Instrument type

call off118 · £1.3bn
contract830 · £778.9m
Source:Contracts Finder: 640Find a Tender: 308

Awarded contracts · 90 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Food Standards Agency 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
EA
21 contracts · 18 Nov17 Dec
£1.9bnest.
2
HM
15 contracts · 31 Jul30 Sept
£360.5mest.
3
L8
1 contract
£303.0mest.
4
FS
54 contracts · 31 Mar08 Jul
£11.3mest.
5
NU
2 contracts · 30 Sept
£6.8m
6
I1
2 contracts · 09 Dec07 Aug
£6.0m
7
EL
6 contracts · SME · 16 Jan01 Apr
£5.3mest.
8
IL
6 contracts · 01 Dec19 Mar
£4.8m
9252
···
244 other suppliers
long tail · 41 SMEs
£106.6m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Health & social work
34 contracts
£4.3bn
97%
R&D services
306 contracts
£56.3m
1%
IT services, software
61 contracts
£48.0m
1%
Software packages, IT
54 contracts
£19.1m
0%
Other
97 contracts
£15.4m
0%
Business, legal, advisory
20 contracts
£3.4m
0%
Other community services
6 contracts
£2.7m
0%
Security, emergency equipment
4 contracts
£2.2m
0%

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
R&D services
0
3
IT services, software
Software packages, IT
0
0
1
Other
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
Business, legal, advisory
1
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 · 2 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 2 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.

13%
SME supplier share
target 33%
75
SME award rows
9
VCSE award rows
252
Distinct suppliers
1%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
3%
Local suppliers (YO postcodes)
2 of 78 with known office
3%
Value to local suppliers
£13.9m of £430.3m
31%
Postcode coverage
78 of 252 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the YO 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.
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 13% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

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
UKE21
Contact
FSA Commercial
Email
fsa.commercial@food.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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