Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£8.3m
Median award

No awards recorded in the last 24 months.

Last recorded award: 27 Feb 2023. Lifetime totals remain available below.

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
4 recorded contracts worth £471.0m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified48 · £1.4bn
goods48 · £1.1bn
services30 · £1.1bn
works2 · £50.0m

Instrument type

contract96 · £2.2bn
call off32 · £1.4bn
Source:Find a Tender: 80Contracts Finder: 48

Awarded contracts · 19 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Kent bCounty Council (t/a KCS) 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
ID
4 contracts · 23 Nov
£1.1bnest.
2
TS
£1.1bnest.
3
TD
3 contracts · SME · 23 Nov
£1.0bnest.
4
BL
2 contracts · SME
£1.0bnest.
5
EE
2 contracts · SME
£1.0bnest.
6
PS
£550.0mest.
7
SC
2 contracts · 23 Nov
£508.3mest.
8
BS
£500.0mest.
9298
···
290 other suppliers
long tail · 224 SMEs
£24.3bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Office equipment, IT
186 contracts
£34.4bn
72%
Construction materials
44 contracts
£8.8bn
18%
Business, legal, advisory
11 contracts
£1.3bn
3%
Security, emergency equipment
67 contracts
£900.0m
2%
Radio, TV, communications
24 contracts
£700.0m
1%
Medical, pharmaceutical
35 contracts
£675.0m
1%
Health & social work
12 contracts
£600.0m
1%
Postal, telecoms
4 contracts
£400.0m
1%

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.

Kent bCounty Council (t/a KCS) 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.

77%
SME supplier share
target 33%
332
SME award rows
45
VCSE award rows
298
Distinct suppliers
66%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
Local suppliers
0 of 0 with known office
Value to local suppliers
£0 of £0
0%
Postcode coverage
0 of 298 matched suppliers
Local-supplier analysis unavailable — no postcode recorded for this buyer.

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
United Kingdom

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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