Spend profile

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

£32k
12 m spend
£7.2m
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£90k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Kent Fire & Rescue Service — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£275k£550k£825k£1.1mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

14

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

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

Unspecified122 · £208.9m
goods28 · £137.5m
services28 · £1.6m
works1 · £0

Instrument type

contract164 · £333.1m
call off15 · £14.9m
Source:Contracts Finder: 121Find a Tender: 58

Awarded contracts · 22 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Kent Fire & Rescue 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
BU
1 contract · 22 May
£180.0m
2
SP
£23.0mest.
3
MS
£4.6m
4
AG
1 contract · 29 Jun
£2.9m
5
WL
1 contract · SME · 06 Feb
£2.6m
6
DM
£1.2m
7
VU
1 contract · 17 Nov
£750k
8
SC
£625k
979
···
71 other suppliers
long tail · 40 SMEs
£8.1m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Security, emergency equipment
7 contracts
£278.6m
83%
Other
16 contracts
£40.6m
12%
Construction works
8 contracts
£7.0m
2%
IT services, software
1 contract
£2.9m
1%
R&D services
2 contracts
£2.6m
1%
Transport equipment, vehicles
15 contracts
£2.1m
1%
Business, legal, advisory
15 contracts
£1.7m
0%
Electrical machinery
3 contracts
£1.5m
0%

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 Fire & Rescue 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.

49%
SME supplier share
target 33%
45
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
79
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
Contact
Amanda Avron-Cotton
Email
amanda.avron-cotton@kent.fire-uk.org

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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