Spend profile

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

£30.6m
12 m spend
£255.6m
Prior 12 m
-88%
YoY change
£94k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
London Borough of Merton — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£58m£115m£173m£231mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

32

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

4

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

3

£4.2m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified447 · £615.0m
services527 · £532.8m
goods13 · £63.6m
works13 · £1.4m

Instrument type

contract897 · £882.8m
call off103 · £330.0m
Source:Find a Tender: 557Contracts Finder: 443

Awarded contracts · 154 live

All contracts with a published award notice where London Borough of Merton 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
VE
2 contracts · 07 Jan
£455.0mest.
2
LB
1 contract · 11 Oct
£156.0m
3
CL
2 contracts · SME · 22 Nov01 Dec
£31.5m
4
CL
£20.7m
5
JR
2 contracts · SME · 15 Jul
£9.7m
6
TC
2 contracts · SME · 02 Aug
£6.0m
7
EN
2 contracts · 05 Mar
£5.7m
8
NB
1 contract · 26 Mar
£5.6m
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403 other suppliers
long tail · 309 SMEs
£165.1m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Sewage, waste, environment
17 contracts
£353.4m
31%
Other
499 contracts
£284.4m
25%
Health & social work
107 contracts
£169.5m
15%
Financial, insurance
11 contracts
£158.8m
14%
Business, legal, advisory
22 contracts
£67.0m
6%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
4 contracts
£55.1m
5%
Construction works
112 contracts
£33.2m
3%
Education, training
85 contracts
£21.2m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Sewage, waste, environment
0
Other
Health & social work
3
Financial, insurance
0
Business, legal, advisory
0
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 · 1 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 1 notice 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.

69%
SME supplier share
target 33%
679
SME award rows
47
VCSE award rows
411
Distinct suppliers

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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
UKG13
Contact
Audrey Thomas
Email
Audrey.Thomas@merton.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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