Spend profile

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

£150k
12 m spend
£0
Prior 12 m
YoY change
£108k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£275k£550k£825k£1.1mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

1

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£150k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
No recorded contracts end within the next 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified45 · £6.9m
services11 · £4.7m
goods16 · £1.1m

Instrument type

contract67 · £12.7m
call off5 · £105k
Source:Contracts Finder: 45Find a Tender: 27

Awarded contracts · 1 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service 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
EU
1 contract
£4.0mest.
2
SD
£2.3m
3
LS
£1.5m
4
LS
1 contract · 15 Apr
£761k
5
AB
1 contract · SME · 01 Jun
£750k
6
BS
£425kest.
7
FF
£240kest.
8
HC
£235k
947
···
39 other suppliers
long tail · 18 SMEs
£1.3m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Security, emergency equipment
10 contracts
£5.5m
44%
Other community services
1 contract
£4.0m
32%
Software packages, IT
2 contracts
£794k
6%
Education, training
11 contracts
£707k
6%
Other
13 contracts
£665k
5%
Transport equipment, vehicles
3 contracts
£378k
3%
Business, legal, advisory
1 contract
£200k
2%
Repair & maintenance
3 contracts
£180k
1%

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.

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service 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.

36%
SME supplier share
target 33%
20
SME award rows
3
VCSE award rows
47
Distinct suppliers
12%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
4%
Local suppliers (L postcodes)
1 of 27 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£0 of £9.4m
57%
Postcode coverage
27 of 47 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the L postcode area — not trading address, so national firms registered locally count and local branches of elsewhere-registered firms don't. Percentages are of suppliers with a known registered office.

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
UKD
Contact
Andrew Elliott
Email
procurement@manchesterfire.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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