Spend profile

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

£514.9m
12 m spend
£318.2m
Prior 12 m
+62%
YoY change
£1.2m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Manchester City Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£122m£245m£367m£489mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

40

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

15

£34.6m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

works48 · £7.0bn
Unspecified577 · £3.1bn
services309 · £1.8bn
goods66 · £120.1m

Instrument type

contract871 · £9.7bn
call off129 · £2.4bn
Source:Contracts Finder: 534Find a Tender: 466

Awarded contracts · 237 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Manchester City 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
MP
1 contract · SME
£750.0mest.
2
DE
3 contracts · 28 Sept
£286.7mest.
3
EW
3 contracts · 22 Dec
£235.5mest.
4
IC
3 contracts · 22 Dec
£213.2mest.
5
BK
3 contracts · 14 Apr22 Dec
£209.0mest.
6
MS
£191.1mest.
7
RW
2 contracts · 22 Dec
£191.1mest.
8
SR
2 contracts · 22 Dec
£191.1mest.
9857
···
849 other suppliers
long tail · 557 SMEs
£6.0bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
169 contracts
£9.8bn
43%
Other
196 contracts
£4.9bn
21%
Health & social work
288 contracts
£4.2bn
18%
Real estate
48 contracts
£1.7bn
8%
Architecture, engineering
86 contracts
£939.6m
4%
Construction materials
31 contracts
£662.1m
3%
Industrial machinery
21 contracts
£407.2m
2%
Education, training
112 contracts
£320.4m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Construction works
0
1
Other
2
0
15
1
0
445
8
2
1
34
Health & social work
Real estate
Architecture, engineering
0
0
0
Construction materials
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 · 14 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 14 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.

64%
SME supplier share
target 33%
836
SME award rows
105
VCSE award rows
857
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
UKD33
Contact
Joshua Ward
Email
procurement@manchester.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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