Spend profile

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

£210.8m
12 m spend
£70.8m
Prior 12 m
+198%
YoY change
£99k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Government Legal Department — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£55m£109m£164m£219mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

3

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

8

£206.0m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
36 recorded contracts worth £16.8m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified269 · £442.6m
services7 · £19.7m

Instrument type

contract269 · £460.5m
call off7 · £1.7m
Source:Contracts Finder: 269Find a Tender: 7

Awarded contracts · 65 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Government Legal Department 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
AM
2 contracts · 16 Jun29 May
£277.2m
2
AL
3 contracts · SME · 01 Aug22 Apr
£29.3m
3
XL
2 contracts · 14 Jul09 Sept
£28.0m
4
EL
2 contracts · 20 Apr03 Feb
£10.6m
5
AL
17 contracts · 13 May03 Jul
£9.9m
6
PS
1 contract · SME · 10 Jun
£5.9m
7
TL
13 contracts · 23 Sept31 Mar
£5.3m
8
BU
1 contract · 12 Dec
£5.3m
9132
···
124 other suppliers
long tail · 31 SMEs
£51.2m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
189 contracts
£372.9m
81%
IT services, software
26 contracts
£69.6m
15%
Software packages, IT
24 contracts
£8.3m
2%
Support transport services
6 contracts
£4.2m
1%
Office equipment, IT
11 contracts
£1.8m
0%
Architecture, engineering
4 contracts
£1.3m
0%
Laboratory, scientific
1 contract
£1.2m
0%
Agriculture, forestry services
1 contract
£800k
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Business, legal, advisory
0
0
0
2
0
0
1
198
0
IT services, software
7
0
Software packages, IT
0
0
0
0
1
Support transport services
0
Office equipment, IT
Architecture, engineering
0
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.

Government Legal Department 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.

26%
SME supplier share
target 33%
71
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
132
Distinct suppliers
11%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
4%
Local suppliers (SW postcodes)
3 of 67 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£187k of £402.2m
51%
Postcode coverage
67 of 132 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the SW 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.
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 26% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

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
UKI32
Contact
Stephen Newton
Email
bids@governmentlegal.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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