Spend profile

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

£2.5m
12 m spend
£1.1m
Prior 12 m
+118%
YoY change
£238k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
The Police and Crime Commissioner for Bedfordshire — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£367k£734k£1.1m£1.5mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

12

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

2

£1.1m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
1 recorded contract worth £935k end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services7 · £915.1m
works1 · £20.0m
Unspecified31 · £3.8m
goods7 · £2.2m

Instrument type

contract44 · £941.0m
call off2 · £0
Source:Find a Tender: 31Contracts Finder: 15

Awarded contracts · 16 live

All contracts with a published award notice where The Police and Crime Commissioner for Bedfordshire 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
AL
2 contracts · 19 Mar
£1.3m
2
OY
1 contract · 09 Dec
£1.0m
3
SC
1 contract · 18 Jun
£935k
4
CP
2 contracts · 19 Mar
£720k
5
RS
£298k
6
SP
2 contracts · 01 Jun
£205k
7
OC
1 contract · 26 Mar
£183k
8
TF
2 contracts · 19 Mar
£112k
925
···
17 other suppliers
long tail · 5 SMEs
£324k

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Business, legal, advisory
3 contracts
£900.0m
96%
Construction works
1 contract
£20.0m
2%
Health & social work
3 contracts
£15.0m
2%
Other
22 contracts
£2.5m
0%
Other community services
2 contracts
£1.1m
0%
Security, emergency equipment
1 contract
£1.0m
0%
Office equipment, IT
1 contract
£935k
0%
Software packages, IT
3 contracts
£750k
0%

Activity heatmap

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

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Dec
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Feb
Mar
Apr
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Jul
Business, legal, advisory
Construction works
Health & social work
Other
1
Other community services
Security, emergency equipment
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.

16%
SME supplier share
target 33%
5
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
25
Distinct suppliers
1%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
0%
Local suppliers (MK postcodes)
0 of 18 with known office
0%
Value to local suppliers
£0 of £4.1m
72%
Postcode coverage
18 of 25 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the MK 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 16% 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
UKH24
Contact
David Steward
Email
david.steward@norfolk.police.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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