Spend profile

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

£70.2bn
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£41.7m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£15953m£31906m£47860m£63813mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

157

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

548

£64.7bn

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services70 · £13.7bn
Unspecified68 · £910.8m
goods147 · £552.9m
works3 · £0

Instrument type

contract288 · £15.1bn
Source:Find a Tender: 288

Awarded contracts · 1134 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO 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
SF
£375.0m
2
RT
£375.0m
3
FL
£333.3m
4
DE
£291.7m
5
EV
£291.7m
6
AU
2 contracts · 02 Jun
£291.7m
7
AR
2 contracts · SME · 02 Jun
£291.7m
8
AQ
2 contracts · SME · 02 Jun
£291.7m
9886
···
878 other suppliers
long tail · 677 SMEs
£66.9bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
1689 contracts
£70.2bn
84%
Office equipment, IT
3 contracts
£6.0bn
7%
Business, legal, advisory
1 contract
£3.3bn
4%
Public utilities
1 contract
£3.0bn
4%
Support transport services
3 contracts
£600.0m
1%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
3 contracts
£383.3m
0%
Hotel, restaurant, retail
1 contract
£200.0m
0%
Clothing, footwear
1 contract
£183.3m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Other
100
151
5188
3033
18
58012
3667
Office equipment, IT
Business, legal, advisory
Public utilities
Support transport services
Petroleum, fuel, energy
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 · 4 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 4 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.

77%
SME supplier share
target 33%
1276
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
886
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
UKF22
Contact
Corporate Solutions Procurement Team
Email
tenders@espo.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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