Spend profile

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

£462.1m
12 m spend
£168.7m
Prior 12 m
+174%
YoY change
£320k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Luton Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£61m£122m£184m£245mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

75

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

6

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

30

£143.0m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified640 · £1.0bn
services199 · £883.3m
works54 · £125.6m
goods27 · £21.1m

Instrument type

contract738 · £1.4bn
call off182 · £630.0m
Source:Contracts Finder: 573Find a Tender: 347

Awarded contracts · 334 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Luton Council 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
GL
1 contract · SME · 29 Aug
£214.4m
2
SC
2 contracts · SME · 23 Jun
£177.0mest.
3
FC
2 contracts · SME · 23 Jun
£177.0mest.
4
SR
£135.0mest.
5
CH
5 contracts · SME · 10 Jan21 Jul
£67.8mest.
6
MS
12 contracts · SME · 09 Apr09 Oct
£67.5mest.
7
GH
4 contracts · SME · 10 Jan11 Jan
£66.8mest.
8
TP
4 contracts · SME · 10 Jan11 Jan
£66.8mest.
9555
···
547 other suppliers
long tail · 386 SMEs
£2.5bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other community services
68 contracts
£1.7bn
43%
Health & social work
148 contracts
£997.3m
25%
Other
148 contracts
£387.5m
10%
Construction works
83 contracts
£382.8m
10%
Transport services
17 contracts
£236.5m
6%
Sewage, waste, environment
24 contracts
£153.8m
4%
Repair & maintenance
19 contracts
£66.0m
2%
Construction materials
28 contracts
£45.6m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Other community services
Health & social work
118
Other
36
1
13
1
0
19
Construction works
221
Transport services
1
Sewage, waste, environment
3
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.

Luton Council 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.

73%
SME supplier share
target 33%
631
SME award rows
47
VCSE award rows
555
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
UKH21
Contact
Kasia Kosciuszko
Email
Kasia.Kosciuszko@luton.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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