Spend profile

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

£16.5m
12 m spend
£27.6m
Prior 12 m
-40%
YoY change
£62k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
O F W A T — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£5.1m£10m£15m£20mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

2

£225k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
25 recorded contracts worth £23.8m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified258 · £73.0m

Instrument type

contract258 · £73.0m
Source:Contracts Finder: 258

Awarded contracts · 51 live

All contracts with a published award notice where O F W A T 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
OA
12 contracts · 01 Aug20 Mar
£3.4m
2
GG
1 contract · 11 Nov
£2.8m
3
GT
3 contracts · 16 Nov28 Feb
£2.7m
4
WU
4 contracts · 12 Dec09 Dec
£2.1m
5
PC
3 contracts · 22 Nov28 Feb
£1.7m
6
KS
2 contracts · 04 Mar22 Aug
£1.6m
7
TT
4 contracts · SME · 30 Nov21 Sept
£1.6m
8
DL
3 contracts · SME · 07 Jun21 Jan
£1.5m
9140
···
132 other suppliers
long tail · 79 SMEs
£25.3m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
100 contracts
£27.9m
39%
Public utilities
50 contracts
£21.9m
30%
Financial, insurance
9 contracts
£7.4m
10%
Architecture, engineering
38 contracts
£5.5m
8%
IT services, software
28 contracts
£3.9m
5%
R&D services
12 contracts
£2.8m
4%
Software packages, IT
8 contracts
£1.8m
3%
Support transport services
2 contracts
£590k
1%

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
5
0
0
Public utilities
Financial, insurance
3
2
Architecture, engineering
0
0
0
2
0
2
0
0
0
IT services, software
0
0
0
0
R&D services
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 · 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.

O F W A T 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.

54%
SME supplier share
target 33%
141
SME award rows
2
VCSE award rows
140
Distinct suppliers
45%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
Local suppliers
0 of 0 with known office
Value to local suppliers
£0 of £0
0%
Postcode coverage
0 of 140 matched suppliers
Local-supplier analysis unavailable — no postcode recorded for this buyer.

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
United Kingdom

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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