Spend profile

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

£177.2m
12 m spend
£867k
Prior 12 m
+20346%
YoY change
£7.1m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Northern Ireland Fire and Rescure Service — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£45m£90m£134m£179mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

7

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

13

£163.0m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
4 recorded contracts worth £535k end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services124 · £1.4bn
goods167 · £854.6m
works5 · £62.0m
Unspecified26 · £42.4m

Instrument type

contract322 · £2.4bn
Source:Find a Tender: 322

Awarded contracts · 28 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Northern Ireland Fire and Rescure 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
DM
£200.0mest.
2
ET
£200.0mest.
3
PC
£200.0mest.
4
BT
£150.0mest.
5
CM
£150.0mest.
6
FS
£150.0mest.
7
TT
£150.0mest.
8
WT
1 contract · SME
£75.0mest.
9313
···
305 other suppliers
long tail · 238 SMEs
£1.9bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
8 contracts
£4.2bn
39%
Medical, pharmaceutical
175 contracts
£4.1bn
39%
Business, legal, advisory
24 contracts
£503.5m
5%
Construction materials
30 contracts
£492.8m
5%
Furniture, cleaning
63 contracts
£416.1m
4%
Food, beverages, tobacco
17 contracts
£371.7m
3%
Other
120 contracts
£371.0m
3%
Sewage, waste, environment
10 contracts
£205.0m
2%

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 · 1 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 1 notice 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.

70%
SME supplier share
target 33%
326
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
313
Distinct suppliers
43%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
33%
Local suppliers (BT postcodes)
39 of 119 with known office
33%
Value to local suppliers
£1.4bn of £4.3bn
38%
Postcode coverage
119 of 313 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the BT 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
UKN0E
Contact
Dawn Bradley
Email
sourcing.palsballymena@hscni.net

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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