Quick answer — Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA)Last refreshed 11 Feb 2025

At a glance

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) has awarded £81.0m across 32 suppliers, with 32 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 5% · 5 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 94% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration5%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share94%
Pipeline · open now5
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) is a contracting authority, based in UKD7. Tracks 26 published notices and 24 awards on PublicSupply.

26
Notices published
24
Awards
32
Suppliers engaged
2021
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£63k
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£1.8m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£0m£1m£1m£1mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

1

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

5

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

Unspecified18 · £75.4m
services7 · £9.3m
works1 · £0

Instrument type

call off11 · £75.2m
contract15 · £9.6m
Source:Contracts Finder: 18Find a Tender: 8

Awarded contracts · 32 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
Cheshire and Merseyside Work and Health StrategySocial Finance85000000£63k11 Feb 2025active
Mersey Tidal Power Project - Front-End Engineering Design Services (FEED Services) - Phase 471000000£4.0mest.closed
Mersey Tidal Power Project - Front-End Engineering Design Services (FEED Services) - Phase 471000000£4.0mest.active
LCRCA Winter Bureau and Forecasting Services - Single Party Framework 2025 -2960000000£0active
LCRCA Winter Bureau and Forecasting Services - Single Party Framework 2025 - 2960000000£750kest.active
LCRCA Digital Marketing - Single party framework 2024 - 2026Blaze Media Consultancy Ltd.72000000£145k03 May 2024active
MerseyTidal - Technical Advisory Service Engineering Support71000000£0active
Liverpool City Region (LCRCA) Training Provider Framework 2Health and Safety Matters Limited80000000£1.6mest.active
Liverpool City Region (LCRCA) Training Provider Framework 2Three Dimensional Training Limited80000000£1.6mest.active
Liverpool City Region (LCRCA) Training Provider Framework 2The Workforce Development Trust Limited80000000£1.6mest.active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
BW
1 contract · SME · 06 May
£4.4m
5% of total
2
NE
1 contract · SME · 06 May
£4.4m
5% of total
3
TG
1 contract · SME · 06 May
£4.4m
5% of total
4
GT
1 contract · SME · 06 May
£4.4m
5% of total
5
IA
1 contract · SME · 06 May
£4.4m
5% of total
6
TT
1 contract · SME · 06 May
£4.4m
5% of total
7
CT
1 contract · SME · 06 May
£4.4m
5% of total
8
SH
1 contract · SME · 06 May
£4.4m
5% of total
932
···
24 other suppliers
long tail · 22 SMEs
£45.2m
56% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Education, training
27 contracts
£82.4m
89%
Architecture, engineering
5 contracts
£8.1m
9%
Transport services
2 contracts
£750k
1%
Musical instruments, sport
1 contract
£650k
1%
Other
1 contract
£350k
0%
IT services, software
2 contracts
£283k
0%
Business, legal, advisory
3 contracts
£121k
0%
R&D services
2 contracts
£64k
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Education, training
Architecture, engineering
Transport services
Musical instruments, sport
Other
IT services, software
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 · 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.

Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) 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.

94%
SME supplier share
target 33%
31
SME award rows
16
VCSE award rows
32
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKD7
Contact
Procurement
Email
tender@liverpoolcityregion-ca.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.

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