Name: Marketing Birmingham Ltd procurement activity
Creator: PublicSupply
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Quick answer — Marketing Birmingham LtdLast refreshed 30 Oct 2020

At a glance

Marketing Birmingham Ltd has awarded £12.8m across 51 suppliers.

Why: Top supplier share 8% · 0 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 20% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals

Top-supplier concentration8%

Modifications · 90 d0

SME spend share20%

Pipeline · open now0

Awards · 90 d0

Supplier?Pipeline Top suppliers Categories boughtWatchdog?Modifications FOIA & transparency SME share

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Marketing Birmingham Ltd is a contracting authority, based in United Kingdom. Tracks 64 published notices and 64 awards on PublicSupply.

64

Notices published

64

Awards

51

Suppliers engaged

2016

First award on file

Spend profile

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

£0

12 m spend

£0

Prior 12 m

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YoY change

£57k

Median award

Awards (£m)12m moving avg

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

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Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

›

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

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Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified64 · £12.8m

Instrument type

call off32 · £7.0m

contract32 · £5.8m

Source:Contracts Finder: 64

Awarded contracts · 0 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Marketing Birmingham Ltd is the contracting authority.

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Title	Supplier	CPV	Value	Awarded	Status
Modelling the economic impact of the visitor economy	GLOBAL TOURISM SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED	73110000	£11k	10 Jan 2018	active
Waterways Visitor Economy Business Engagement, Support & Development for export	BTS	75125000	£150k	28 Mar 2018	active
England's Waterways Visitor Survey	The Research Solution Ltd	73110000	£27k	28 Mar 2018	active
IT Technical Infrastructure 2018	ALLTEKS LIMITED	72000000	£141k	04 May 2018	active
MIPIM 2019 Charter Flight	AIR PARTNER PLC	60423000	£44k	01 Sept 2018	active
Foreign Direct Investment Lead Generation Automotive & Advanced Engineering	Wavteq Ltd	79900000	£47k	03 Sept 2018	active
Foreign Direct Investment Lead Generation Automotive & Advanced Engineering	PM & Partner Marketing Consulting GmbH	79900000	£47k	03 Sept 2018	active
Foreign Direct Investment Lead Generation Automotive & Advanced Engineering	ROI Research on Investment Inc	79900000	£47k	03 Sept 2018	active
MIPIM UK 2018 Event Production & Stand Building Services	SECTOR GLOBAL LIMITED	39154100	£29k	18 Sept 2018	active
Research on Tourism Strategy	TOURISM ENTERPRISE AND MANAGEMENT LIMITED	73110000	£40k	21 Nov 2018	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

PP

Portland PR Ltd

2 contracts · 16 Sept – 07 Nov

£1.1m

8% of total

—

2

SC

Story Comms Ltd

1 contract · 16 Sept

£1.0m

8% of total

—

3

GC

Grayling Communications Ltd

1 contract · 16 Sept

£1.0m

8% of total

—

4

JL

Journalista Ltd

1 contract · 16 Sept

£1.0m

8% of total

—

5

UC

Uniform Communications Ltd

4 contracts · 08 Nov – 02 Feb

£471k

4% of total

—

6

DL

Digitronix Ltd

3 contracts · 08 Nov – 02 Feb

£446k

3% of total

—

7

BS

Bomper Studio Ltd

2 contracts · 08 Nov – 07 Dec

£432k

3% of total

—

8

HG

Heavenly Group Ltd

2 contracts · 10 Jun – 08 Nov

£397k

3% of total

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9–51

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43 other suppliers

long tail · 14 SMEs

£7.0m

54% of total

various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software

29 contracts

£6.3m

50%

Business, legal, advisory

27 contracts

£4.9m

39%

Furniture, cleaning

4 contracts

£706k

6%

Office equipment, IT

4 contracts

£248k

2%

R&D services

9 contracts

£151k

1%

Government administration

1 contract

£150k

1%

Software packages, IT

3 contracts

£89k

1%

Printed matter

3 contracts

£50k

0%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul

Aug

Sept

Oct

Nov

Dec

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

IT services, software

Business, legal, advisory

Furniture, cleaning

Office equipment, IT

R&D services

Government administration

LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

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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.

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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.

Marketing Birmingham Ltd 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.

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SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

20%

SME supplier share
target 33%

14

SME award rows

0

VCSE award rows

51

Distinct suppliers

⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 20% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.

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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: United Kingdom

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.

Buyer	Type	12 m spend	Top-supplier %	SME %	Mods · 90 d
Marketing Birmingham Ltd	self	£24.8bn	14%	24%	12 (3)
Peer A	—	£8.2bn	11%	34%	3 (0)
Peer B	—	£3.2bn	18%	31%	4 (0)
Peer C	—	£1.84bn	9%	42%	0

About this buyer

Spend profile

Contract pipeline

Planned

Open (bidding)

Awarded (90d)

Frameworks open

Procurement mix

Contract type

Instrument type

Awarded contracts · 0 live

Top suppliers · by total award value

Category spend breakdown

Activity heatmap

Commercial & procurement leadership

Curated leadership roster

Modifications · 0 in 90 d

Compliance & transparency

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

SME & social value

Peer benchmark

Compare against the peer group

News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Identifiers & contact

Board & accountable officers

Accountable officer + board roster

Resources

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