Quick answer — Newport City CouncilLast refreshed 13 May 2026

At a glance

Newport City Council has awarded £663.4m across 241 suppliers, with 790 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 19% · 61 open notices now · 29 awards in last 90 d (£45.3m) · SME share 50% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 2 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration19%
Modifications · 90 d2
SME spend share50%
Pipeline · open now61
Awards · 90 d29

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Newport City Council is a contracting authority, based in UKL21. Tracks 200 published notices and 329 awards on PublicSupply.

200
Notices published
329
Awards
241
Suppliers engaged
2025
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£52.4m
12 m spend
£6.1m
Prior 12 m
+765%
YoY change
£2.3m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Newport City Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£12m£25m£37m£50mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

24

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

61

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

29

£45.3m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services84 · £423.7m
goods34 · £252.9m
works19 · £64.2m
Unspecified63 · £49.5m

Instrument type

contract200 · £790.3m
Source:Find a Tender: 200

Awarded contracts · 790 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Newport City Council is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
NCC202402284 - Street Lighting Maintenance ContractCentregreat£7.0mest.active
NCC202500295 - Recycling Collection ServiceWastesavers Recycling Limited£33.9mest.active
NCC202600032 - Project ManagementCJ Investigationsactive
NCC202600032 - Project ManagementCJ Investigations£25k13 May 2026active
Newport Schools Management Information System48000000£2.1mest.planned
Newport Schools Management Information System48000000£2.1mest.planned
NCC202600032- Project ManagementCJ Investigations£25kpending
Private Sector Housing Approved List45300000£5.2mest.planned
Active Travel City Centre North45233100£2.0mest.planned
Domestic Abuse Floating Support Service85000000£2.0mest.planned
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Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1
CH
£126.9mest.
19% of total
2
HF
£76.4mest.
12% of total
3
WR
2 contracts · SME · 10 Mar
£67.8mest.
10% of total
New
4
PL
1 contract
£65.0mest.
10% of total
5
DP
£49.6mest.
7% of total
6
KA
£26.3mest.
4% of total
7
WD
9 contracts · SME
£16.0mest.
2% of total
8
BW
8 contracts · SME
£13.7mest.
2% of total
9241
···
233 other suppliers
long tail · 171 SMEs
£232.8m
35% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Mining machinery
99 contracts
£984.0m
40%
Food, beverages, tobacco
264 contracts
£592.9m
24%
Business, legal, advisory
79 contracts
£302.7m
12%
Radio, TV, communications
37 contracts
£200.0m
8%
Health & social work
94 contracts
£158.5m
6%
Other
98 contracts
£108.5m
4%
Transport services
1 contract
£80.0m
3%
Construction works
52 contracts
£48.3m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Mining machinery
Food, beverages, tobacco
Business, legal, advisory
Radio, TV, communications
Health & social work
Other
1
5
0
0
0
0
45
0
0
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 · 2 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 2 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.

50%
SME supplier share
target 33%
389
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
241
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKL21
Contact
Richard Leake
Email
richard.leake@newport.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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