Spend profile

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

£39.7m
12 m spend
£77.5m
Prior 12 m
-49%
YoY change
£150k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
The Insolvency Service — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£13m£25m£38m£51mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

14

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

7

£2.6m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
40 recorded contracts worth £30.7m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified376 · £303.7m
services18 · £65.6m
goods2 · £3.4m

Instrument type

contract384 · £322.0m
call off12 · £50.8m
Source:Contracts Finder: 367Find a Tender: 29

Awarded contracts · 79 live

All contracts with a published award notice where The Insolvency Service 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 · 17 Jun07 Jul
£47.5m
2
SL
19 contracts · SME · 31 Mar27 Mar
£21.3m
3
PS
5 contracts · 16 Jun17 Mar
£14.7m
4
ND
7 contracts · 09 Feb28 Mar
£12.6m
5
NL
9 contracts · SME · 17 Feb01 Apr
£10.9m
6
TL
4 contracts · 18 Feb11 Jul
£9.7m
7
NW
1 contract · 25 Jul
£9.6m
8
GW
4 contracts · SME · 18 Feb02 May
£8.9m
9199
···
191 other suppliers
long tail · 91 SMEs
£168.2m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
97 contracts
£130.4m
37%
IT services, software
119 contracts
£123.6m
35%
Software packages, IT
64 contracts
£36.9m
10%
Financial, insurance
15 contracts
£22.7m
6%
Other
12 contracts
£20.2m
6%
Support transport services
2 contracts
£8.7m
2%
Architecture, engineering
11 contracts
£6.1m
2%
Security, emergency equipment
2 contracts
£3.8m
1%

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
1
1
1
0
0
1
IT services, software
0
0
0
8
0
9
0
Software packages, IT
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
Financial, insurance
3
1
Other
Support transport services
7
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.

The Insolvency Service 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.

48%
SME supplier share
target 33%
178
SME award rows
4
VCSE award rows
199
Distinct suppliers
37%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
6%
Local suppliers (E postcodes)
6 of 106 with known office
2%
Value to local suppliers
£3.7m of £219.8m
53%
Postcode coverage
106 of 199 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the E 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
UKI41
Contact
Javed Kebede
Email
commercial@insolvency.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.

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