Spend profile

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

£2.4m
12 m spend
£7.6m
Prior 12 m
-68%
YoY change
£36k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£1.2m£2.5m£3.7m£5.0mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

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)

8

£281k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified191 · £20.7m
services2 · £120k
goods2 · £0

Instrument type

contract165 · £16.2m
call off30 · £4.6m
Source:Contracts Finder: 191Find a Tender: 4

Awarded contracts · 33 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman 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
RL
1 contract · SME · 21 May
£4.5m
2
PS
3 contracts · 19 Jun21 Dec
£1.6m
3
ID
2 contracts · 17 Dec28 Oct
£1.6m
4
GA
7 contracts · 01 Oct02 Jul
£656k
5
CS
£640k
6
MP
4 contracts · 01 Oct25 May
£596k
7
CT
2 contracts · 02 Feb20 Feb
£440k
8
TI
2 contracts · SME · 20 Mar18 Mar
£398k
9150
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142 other suppliers
long tail · 61 SMEs
£10.0m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

IT services, software
18 contracts
£6.1m
31%
Business, legal, advisory
69 contracts
£6.0m
30%
Software packages, IT
44 contracts
£5.0m
25%
Office equipment, IT
19 contracts
£1.5m
8%
Radio, TV, communications
4 contracts
£480k
2%
R&D services
11 contracts
£341k
2%
Furniture, cleaning
2 contracts
£268k
1%
Financial, insurance
2 contracts
£190k
1%

Activity heatmap

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

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IT services, software
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Business, legal, advisory
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0
Software packages, IT
0
0
0
0
Office equipment, IT
0
0
Radio, TV, communications
R&D services
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 · 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.

Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman 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.

44%
SME supplier share
target 33%
85
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
150
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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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
UKD33
Contact
Mr Matthew Rudder
Email
matthew.rudder@ombudsman.org.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.

Resources

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