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
£20.0m
Median award

No awards recorded in the last 24 months.

Last recorded award: 01 Jun 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
8 recorded contracts worth £220.0m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services19 · £1.6bn
Unspecified16 · £1.5bn
goods18 · £562.0m

Instrument type

contract44 · £2.1bn
call off9 · £1.5bn
Source:Find a Tender: 37Contracts Finder: 16

Awarded contracts · 9 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Kent County Council (T/a as KCS Procurement Services) 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
CB
2 contracts · 30 Jun
£562.5mest.
2
TS
£500.0mest.
3
AC
1 contract · SME
£500.0mest.
4
PS
£500.0mest.
5
TC
£500.0mest.
6
IG
£500.0mest.
7
BL
1 contract · SME
£500.0mest.
8
SD
£500.0mest.
9147
···
139 other suppliers
long tail · 96 SMEs
£18.8bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
29 contracts
£14.5bn
42%
Business, legal, advisory
85 contracts
£6.6bn
19%
Office equipment, IT
12 contracts
£6.0bn
18%
Sewage, waste, environment
28 contracts
£5.6bn
16%
Financial, insurance
1 contract
£500.0m
1%
Software packages, IT
8 contracts
£500.0m
1%
Transport equipment, vehicles
59 contracts
£380.0m
1%
Architecture, engineering
18 contracts
£180.0m
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 County Council (T/a as KCS Procurement Services) 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.

64%
SME supplier share
target 33%
116
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
147
Distinct suppliers
39%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
1%
Local suppliers (ME postcodes)
1 of 84 with known office
4%
Value to local suppliers
£562.5m of £13.7bn
57%
Postcode coverage
84 of 147 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the ME 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
UK
Contact
Mr Ian Day
Email
ian.day@csltd.org.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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