Spend profile

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

£3.2m
12 m spend
£88.4m
Prior 12 m
-96%
YoY change
£250k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Gateshead Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£21m£41m£62m£83mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

8

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

4

£456k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified363 · £231.7m
services99 · £23.1m
works18 · £16.1m
goods26 · £15.7m

Instrument type

contract420 · £162.3m
call off86 · £124.4m
Source:Contracts Finder: 362Find a Tender: 144

Awarded contracts · 69 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Gateshead 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
WD
2 contracts · 26 Jul
£18.9m
2
TT
£12.0mest.
3
NR
1 contract · SME
£12.0mest.
4
AI
£12.0mest.
5
BS
£12.0mest.
6
EQ
£12.0mest.
7
JA
£12.0mest.
8
NE
1 contract · SME
£12.0mest.
9318
···
310 other suppliers
long tail · 158 SMEs
£182.2m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
81 contracts
£459.8m
62%
Health & social work
50 contracts
£115.5m
15%
Construction materials
23 contracts
£96.7m
13%
Sewage, waste, environment
22 contracts
£24.6m
3%
Transport equipment, vehicles
47 contracts
£19.2m
3%
Software packages, IT
28 contracts
£12.2m
2%
Business, legal, advisory
39 contracts
£10.3m
1%
Transport services
1 contract
£8.0m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

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Construction works
Health & social work
Construction materials
Sewage, waste, environment
Transport equipment, vehicles
2
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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.

Gateshead Council 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.

47%
SME supplier share
target 33%
209
SME award rows
15
VCSE award rows
318
Distinct suppliers

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
UKC22
Contact
Andrew Thompson
Email
andrewthompsonprocurement@gateshead.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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