Spend profile

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

£129.2m
12 m spend
£49.0m
Prior 12 m
+164%
YoY change
£99k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Office for National Statistics — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£9.7m£19m£29m£39mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

45

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

14

£10.5m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
73 recorded contracts worth £32.3m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services74 · £1.3bn
Unspecified827 · £713.0m
goods7 · £25.8m

Instrument type

contract872 · £2.0bn
call off36 · £5.3m
Source:Contracts Finder: 763Find a Tender: 145

Awarded contracts · 159 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Office for National Statistics 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
IL
2 contracts · 28 May
£1.3bnest.
2
SM
£96.0m
3
AE
3 contracts · 13 Feb
£29.3mest.
4
TU
3 contracts · 19 Apr04 Apr
£18.7m
5
GC
3 contracts · 23 Dec12 Jan
£18.4m
6
PU
2 contracts · 26 Jul
£18.0m
7
BL
4 contracts · 01 Mar20 Mar
£16.5m
8
KU
1 contract · 01 Aug
£15.6m
9365
···
357 other suppliers
long tail · 118 SMEs
£287.4m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Support transport services
4 contracts
£1.1bn
58%
Business, legal, advisory
109 contracts
£314.5m
16%
Clothing, footwear
4 contracts
£114.3m
6%
IT services, software
136 contracts
£110.6m
6%
Software packages, IT
167 contracts
£96.6m
5%
R&D services
58 contracts
£84.6m
4%
Other
76 contracts
£73.9m
4%
Office equipment, IT
77 contracts
£21.4m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Support transport services
Business, legal, advisory
0
1
6
Clothing, footwear
IT services, software
0
20
2
1
0
0
1
Software packages, IT
0
34
0
0
8
11
0
R&D services
0
3
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.

27%
SME supplier share
target 33%
192
SME award rows
17
VCSE award rows
365
Distinct suppliers
3%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
0%
Local suppliers (NP postcodes)
0 of 141 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£0 of £1.5bn
39%
Postcode coverage
141 of 365 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the NP 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 27% 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
UKL21
Contact
Sophie Keal
Email
CommercialTeam@ons.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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