Spend profile

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

£99.0m
12 m spend
£19.0m
Prior 12 m
+421%
YoY change
£78k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
National Audit Office — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£18m£35m£53m£71mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

5

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

13

£891k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
87 recorded contracts worth £73.4m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified932 · £243.5m
services66 · £185.8m
works2 · £500k

Instrument type

contract989 · £426.0m
call off11 · £3.9m
Source:Contracts Finder: 919Find a Tender: 81

Awarded contracts · 224 live

All contracts with a published award notice where National Audit Office 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
DL
47 contracts · 13 Apr25 Feb
£74.7mest.
2
KL
12 contracts · 19 Sept25 Feb
£72.2mest.
3
EY
46 contracts · 18 Jul25 Feb
£72.0mest.
4
ML
7 contracts · 01 Aug20 May
£51.4mest.
5
AA
£40.1mest.
6
PL
33 contracts · 17 Mar25 Feb
£23.2mest.
7
AP
2 contracts · 31 Oct
£21.2mest.
8
GT
38 contracts · 22 Jun30 Apr
£17.1mest.
9406
···
398 other suppliers
long tail · 211 SMEs
£246.6m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
545 contracts
£741.4m
69%
Other
61 contracts
£241.2m
23%
IT services, software
152 contracts
£51.0m
5%
Software packages, IT
62 contracts
£15.7m
1%
Construction works
9 contracts
£5.8m
1%
Office equipment, IT
22 contracts
£5.1m
0%
Education, training
45 contracts
£4.5m
0%
Support transport services
4 contracts
£2.6m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Business, legal, advisory
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Other
25
1
57
IT services, software
0
0
3
0
0
7
0
0
0
Software packages, IT
0
0
0
Construction works
Office equipment, IT
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.

National Audit Office 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.

40%
SME supplier share
target 33%
394
SME award rows
7
VCSE award rows
406
Distinct suppliers
16%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
4%
Local suppliers (SW postcodes)
6 of 145 with known office
3%
Value to local suppliers
£18.8m of £569.3m
36%
Postcode coverage
145 of 406 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the SW 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

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
UKI32
Contact
Ima Orosei
Email
NAO.Procurement@nao.org.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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