Spend profile

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

£49.7m
12 m spend
£409.6m
Prior 12 m
-88%
YoY change
£1.3m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Northern Trains Limited — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£101m£201m£302m£402mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

77

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

4

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

3

£2.8m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
40 recorded contracts worth £80.6m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified197 · £1.2bn
services140 · £779.3m
works40 · £738.3m
goods78 · £161.8m

Instrument type

contract455 · £2.9bn
Source:Find a Tender: 336Contracts Finder: 119

Awarded contracts · 66 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Northern Trains Limited 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
CR
9 contracts · 17 Apr
£608.9m
2
PL
£222.8m
3
SM
6 contracts · 27 Jan
£165.4m
4
SR
2 contracts · 07 Apr
£120.0mest.
5
EO
£35.9m
6
WI
2 contracts · 05 Mar01 Apr
£33.9m
7
SS
3 contracts · SME · 09 May
£30.9mest.
8
SP
4 contracts · SME · 26 Apr
£20.7m
998
···
90 other suppliers
long tail · 26 SMEs
£159.0m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
127 contracts
£1.3bn
46%
Construction works
37 contracts
£740.9m
27%
Installation services
1 contract
£215.0m
8%
Agriculture, forestry services
1 contract
£151.7m
5%
Financial, insurance
1 contract
£140.0m
5%
Transport equipment, vehicles
11 contracts
£117.0m
4%
Sewage, waste, environment
2 contracts
£66.0m
2%
Business, legal, advisory
14 contracts
£64.3m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

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Installation services
Agriculture, forestry services
Financial, insurance
Transport equipment, vehicles
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 · 5 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 5 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.

26%
SME supplier share
target 33%
50
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
98
Distinct suppliers
9%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
0%
Local suppliers (YO postcodes)
0 of 63 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£0 of £1.3bn
64%
Postcode coverage
63 of 98 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the YO 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.
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 26% 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
UKE21
Companies House
03076444
Contact
James Wilkinson
Email
procurement@northernrailway.co.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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