Spend profile

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

£23.6bn
12 m spend
£65.8m
Prior 12 m
+35779%
YoY change
£108k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Plymouth City Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£5522m£11044m£16566m£22088mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

41

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

3

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£3.5bn

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
17 recorded contracts worth £6.4m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services111 · £8.7bn
works28 · £7.6bn
Unspecified848 · £4.4bn
goods13 · £11.0m

Instrument type

contract957 · £20.6bn
call off43 · £84.1m
Source:Contracts Finder: 752Find a Tender: 248

Awarded contracts · 104 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Plymouth City Council 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
VE
2 contracts · 11 Aug23 Apr
£3.5bn
2
AC
1 contract · SME · 23 Dec
£500.0m
3
AH
1 contract · SME · 23 Dec
£500.0m
4
AH
1 contract · SME · 23 Dec
£500.0m
5
BC
1 contract · SME · 23 Dec
£500.0m
6
BH
£500.0m
7
AC
1 contract · SME · 23 Dec
£500.0m
8
CC
1 contract · SME · 23 Dec
£500.0m
9479
···
471 other suppliers
long tail · 242 SMEs
£13.9bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
192 contracts
£24.0bn
72%
Architecture, engineering
92 contracts
£7.0bn
21%
Construction works
148 contracts
£723.7m
2%
Health & social work
54 contracts
£700.7m
2%
Repair & maintenance
19 contracts
£497.2m
1%
Printed matter
13 contracts
£142.8m
0%
Business, legal, advisory
67 contracts
£87.9m
0%
Construction materials
14 contracts
£44.7m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Other
9
20064
3
0
3500
Architecture, engineering
0
0
0
Construction works
16
Health & social work
Repair & maintenance
Printed matter
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 · 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.

51%
SME supplier share
target 33%
406
SME award rows
17
VCSE award rows
479
Distinct suppliers
72%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
16%
Local suppliers (PL postcodes)
29 of 177 with known office
34%
Value to local suppliers
£6.5bn of £19.0bn
37%
Postcode coverage
177 of 479 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the PL 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
UKK41
Contact
Mrs Beatrice Yarde
Email
jointcommissioning@plymouth.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.

Resources

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