Spend profile

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

£8.1m
12 m spend
£10.5m
Prior 12 m
-22%
YoY change
£1.0m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Forestry England (on behalf of Forestry Commission) — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£2.2m£4.5m£6.7m£9.0mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

20

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
2 recorded contracts worth £596k end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services71 · £1.0bn
Unspecified95 · £98.0m
goods11 · £15.6m
works1 · £70k

Instrument type

contract178 · £1.1bn
Source:Contracts Finder: 91Find a Tender: 87

Awarded contracts · 28 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Forestry England (on behalf of Forestry Commission) 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
AF
£73.0mest.
2
WB
£14.0mest.
3
VG
£11.5mest.
4
GF
£10.0mest.
5
MW
£10.0mest.
6
FE
1 contract · SME · 20 Nov
£8.1m
7
MR
2 contracts · 10 Feb
£6.7mest.
8
WL
2 contracts · 10 Feb
£6.7mest.
942
···
34 other suppliers
long tail · 26 SMEs
£23.2m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
23 contracts
£742.8m
61%
Recreational, cultural, sport
13 contracts
£238.4m
20%
Sewage, waste, environment
12 contracts
£70.9m
6%
Hotel, restaurant, retail
10 contracts
£57.9m
5%
Agriculture, forestry services
48 contracts
£54.0m
4%
Transport equipment, vehicles
4 contracts
£23.4m
2%
Business, legal, advisory
12 contracts
£20.9m
2%
Clothing, footwear
3 contracts
£2.7m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

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Other
8
Recreational, cultural, sport
Sewage, waste, environment
Hotel, restaurant, retail
Agriculture, forestry services
Transport equipment, vehicles
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 · 0 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

Forestry England (on behalf of Forestry Commission) has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

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.

72%
SME supplier share
target 33%
43
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
42
Distinct suppliers
28%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
0%
Local suppliers (BS postcodes)
0 of 14 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£0 of £38.3m
33%
Postcode coverage
14 of 42 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the BS 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.

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
UK
Contact
Victor Ayaga
Email
victor.ayaga@forestryengland.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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