Gloucestershire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the county of Gloucestershire in South West England, headquartered in Gloucester and serving a population of around 645,000 residents. It procures across adult and children's social care, highways and transport, libraries, fire and rescue, waste disposal and school transport.
At a glance
Gloucestershire County Council has awarded £2.7bn across 403 suppliers, with 656 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 28% · 67 open notices now · 11 awards in last 90 d (£38.5m) · SME share 75% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
Gloucestershire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the county of Gloucestershire in South West England, headquartered in Gloucester and serving a population of around 645,000 residents. It procures across adult and children's social care, highways and transport, libraries, fire and rescue, waste disposal and school transport.
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
37
Open (bidding)
67
Awarded (90d)
11
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 656 live
All contracts with a published award notice where Gloucestershire County Council is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Former Moat PA - Remodelling for GHES | Speller Metcalfe | 45210000 | £400k | 03 Jun 2026 | active |
| Coombe Hill - Provision of Fire Training Centre and Highways Hub | Barnwood Ltd | 45210000 | £24.0m | 28 Mar 2026 | active |
| Positive Relationships Gloucestershire - Perpetrator Behaviour Change Interventions | CRANSTOUN SERVICES LIMITED | £6.0m | 29 Apr 2026 | active | |
| Positive Relationships Gloucestershire - Perpetrator Behaviour Change Interventions | CRANSTOUN SERVICES LIMITED | £6.0m | 29 Apr 2026 | active | |
| Minor Responsive and Reactive Works Framework | — | 31625000 | — | — | planning |
| Medium Size Capital Maintenance and Project Works Framework | — | 44112000 | — | — | planning |
| Minor Responsive and Reactive Works Framework | — | 31625000 | — | — | planning |
| Statutory Servicing, Reactive and Remedial Works Framework | — | 45310000 | — | — | planning |
| Removal of Bodies on Behalf of HM Coroner for Gloucestershire | — | — | — | complete | |
| Shared Lives Independent Review - Lot 4b Social Care (Adults and Children's) - ESPO 664_25 | Caja Ltd | 98000000 | £68k | 07 Apr 2026 | active |
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 · 1 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 1 notice 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
- UKK1
- Companies House
- DN754448
- Contact
- Charlotte Biggs
- charlotte.biggs@ubico.co.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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