Spend profile

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

£318.4m
12 m spend
£457.4m
Prior 12 m
-30%
YoY change
£265k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Kent County Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£111m£221m£332m£442mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

113

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

10

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services328 · £12.3bn
Unspecified630 · £4.8bn
works27 · £88.9m
goods15 · £0

Instrument type

contract906 · £13.3bn
call off94 · £3.9bn
Source:Contracts Finder: 545Find a Tender: 455

Awarded contracts · 125 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Kent County 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
AS
£2.0bnest.
2
HP
£2.0bnest.
3
SE
5 contracts · SME · 08 Jan
£550.0mest.
4
IK
6 contracts · SME · 08 Jan12 May
£548.1m
5
KA
2 contracts · SME · 08 Jan
£547.1m
6
ML
2 contracts · 16 Dec
£500.8mest.
7
PL
£500.0mest.
8
RL
1 contract · SME
£500.0mest.
9848
···
840 other suppliers
long tail · 579 SMEs
£3.2bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
379 contracts
£13.3bn
54%
Health & social work
198 contracts
£6.6bn
27%
Other community services
54 contracts
£1.8bn
7%
Construction works
153 contracts
£1.6bn
6%
Education, training
175 contracts
£982.8m
4%
Business, legal, advisory
35 contracts
£225.0m
1%
Sewage, waste, environment
25 contracts
£219.0m
1%
Architecture, engineering
48 contracts
£151.4m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Other
93
70
Health & social work
141
Other community services
Construction works
3
8
Education, training
Business, legal, advisory
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 · 8 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Coming Q3 2026

Per-modification s.74 classification + tolerance flagging

We see 8 notices 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.

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.

64%
SME supplier share
target 33%
772
SME award rows
35
VCSE award rows
848
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
UKJ45
Companies House
09993686
Contact
Kelly Roberts
Email
alison.blackman@kent.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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