Spend profile

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

£5.7m
12 m spend
£6.4m
Prior 12 m
-11%
YoY change
£271k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Police and Crime Commissioner for West Midlands — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£1.5m£3.1m£4.6m£6.1mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

36

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

10

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

3

£410k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
12 recorded contracts worth £914k end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services76 · £139.4m
Unspecified60 · £14.1m
goods4 · £160k

Instrument type

contract140 · £153.7m
Source:Find a Tender: 140

Awarded contracts · 34 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Police and Crime Commissioner for West Midlands 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
MC
1 contract · SME
£24.5mest.
2
CR
1 contract · 26 Jun
£4.2m
3
CI
2 contracts · SME · 31 Mar
£2.2m
4
AN
1 contract · 16 Jun
£1.4m
5
GV
2 contracts · SME · 28 Mar
£1.2m
6
RS
£1.0m
7
UU
2 contracts · 31 Mar
£963k
8
TV
£742kest.
951
···
43 other suppliers
long tail · 19 SMEs
£4.0m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Government administration
5 contracts
£56.7m
48%
Health & social work
3 contracts
£24.9m
21%
IT services, software
2 contracts
£15.9m
14%
Other
66 contracts
£15.7m
13%
Repair & maintenance
7 contracts
£4.0m
3%
Sewage, waste, environment
1 contract
£248k
0%
Laboratory, scientific
1 contract
£160k
0%
Hotel, restaurant, retail
1 contract
£160k
0%

Activity heatmap

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

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Government administration
Health & social work
IT services, software
Other
2
0
3
0
Repair & maintenance
Sewage, waste, environment
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 · 11 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 11 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.

43%
SME supplier share
target 33%
32
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
51
Distinct suppliers
75%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
19%
Local suppliers (B postcodes)
5 of 26 with known office
7%
Value to local suppliers
£2.4m of £33.3m
51%
Postcode coverage
26 of 51 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the B 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
UKG31
Contact
Marie Hadley
Email
commissioning@westmidlands.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.

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