At a glance
Gateshead Borough Council has awarded £3.6bn across 89 suppliers, with 127 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 4% · 36 open notices now · 4 awards in last 90 d (£12.4m) · SME share 52% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 2 modifications in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
Gateshead Borough Council is a contracting authority, based in UKC22. Tracks 180 published notices and 115 awards on PublicSupply.
Spend profile
Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.
Contract pipeline
Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.
Planned
50
Open (bidding)
36
Awarded (90d)
4
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 127 live
All contracts with a published award notice where Gateshead Borough Council is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract for On-Road National Standard Cycle Training (Bikeability) | The Cycle Partnership Limited | £435kest. | — | active | |
| Parking Meters, Back-Office System and Payment App | — | 38730000 | £300kest. | — | planning |
| Parking Meters, Back-Office System and Payment App | — | 38730000 | £300kest. | — | planning |
| Warm Homes: Local Grant (private domestic) | Equans Regeneration Ltd | 45321000 | — | — | active |
| Gateshead Advocacy Services | — | 85000000 | £1.7mest. | — | active |
| Civic Centre Ground Floor Security Access | STEADFAST SECURITY SYSTEMS LTD | — | — | active | |
| AUDIO VISUAL EQUIPMENT FOR MEETING ROOMS | AUDITEL RENTAL AND SERVICE LIMITED | £250kest. | — | active | |
| Contract for the Management of the Provision of NHS Health Checks | Community Based Care Health Federation | £150kest. | — | active | |
| Waste and recycling behaviour change | — | 73210000 | £25kest. | — | active |
| Contract for On-Road National Standard Cycle Training (Bikeability) | The Cycle Partnership Limited | £462k | 28 Apr 2026 | pending |
Top suppliers · by total award value
Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.
Category spend breakdown
By CPV division · lifetime awards
Activity heatmap
Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.
Commercial & procurement leadership
Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.
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.
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.
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.
target 33%
Peer benchmark
vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.
Compare against the peer group
£149 / seat / month. Configurable peer groups, rolling trendlines, and CSV / PDF exports for board packs.
News mentions
Major UK press & trade publications.
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Statutory & accountability
Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.
Identifiers & contact
- Type
- Contracting authority
- Region
- UKC22
- Contact
- Harriet Dinkele
- harrietdinkele@gateshead.gov.uk
Board & accountable officers
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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