Spend profile

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

£2.3bn
12 m spend
£780.7m
Prior 12 m
+192%
YoY change
£155k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£572m£1145m£1717m£2289mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

120

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

6

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

8

£2.1bn

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services272 · £6.6bn
Unspecified667 · £2.9bn
works32 · £259.2m
goods29 · £6.5m

Instrument type

contract938 · £9.7bn
call off62 · £172.6m
Source:Contracts Finder: 505Find a Tender: 495

Awarded contracts · 139 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office 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
PE
1 contract · 16 Apr
£2.1bn
2
PI
9 contracts · 26 Jul05 Jun
£219.8m
3
JI
1 contract · SME · 28 Jan
£100.4m
4
BL
1 contract · 17 Feb
£67.1m
5
GR
3 contracts · 26 Feb05 Jun
£48.3m
6
SA
2 contracts · SME · 05 Jun
£48.0m
7
SC
£48.0m
8
IL
2 contracts · 05 Jun
£48.0m
9463
···
455 other suppliers
long tail · 128 SMEs
£554.3m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Government administration
58 contracts
£4.6bn
47%
Construction works
60 contracts
£2.4bn
25%
Other
239 contracts
£1.9bn
20%
Business, legal, advisory
122 contracts
£368.0m
4%
IT services, software
28 contracts
£137.3m
1%
Health & social work
6 contracts
£112.1m
1%
Other community services
10 contracts
£107.4m
1%
Financial, insurance
33 contracts
£77.1m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Government administration
18
1
6
Construction works
1
2081
Other
0
47
105
1
3
1
Business, legal, advisory
12
0
IT services, software
0
0
Health & social work
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.

29%
SME supplier share
target 33%
190
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
463
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 29% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

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
UK
Contact
Jon Meadows
Email
jon.meadows@fcdo.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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