At a glance
Reading Borough Council has awarded £12.7bn across 200 suppliers, with 278 live contracts.
Why: Top supplier share 16% · 97 open notices now · 3 awards in last 90 d (£11.6m) · SME share 41% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.
About this buyer
Mission, scope and statutory context.
Reading Borough Council is a contracting authority, based in UKJ11. Tracks 537 published notices and 396 awards on PublicSupply.
Spend profile
Award value by month — rolling 24 months. Line shows 12-month moving average.
Contract pipeline
Forward flow — planned notices through to completed awards in the last 90 days.
Planned
43
Open (bidding)
97
Awarded (90d)
3
Frameworks open
0
Procurement mix
How this buyer procures — by procedure, instrument, and publication source.
Contract type
Instrument type
Awarded contracts · 278 live
All contracts with a published award notice where Reading Borough Council is the contracting authority.
| Title | Supplier | CPV | Value | Awarded | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pantomime Procurement | — | 92300000 | — | — | planning |
| Pantomime Procurement | — | 92300000 | — | — | planning |
| Commissioning of Adult Specialist Practitioners (Domestic Abuse & Mental Health) for the Family Safeguarding Model | BERKSHIRE WOMEN'S AID | £210kest. | 29 Apr 2026 | active | |
| Commissioning of Adult Specialist Practitioners (Domestic Abuse & Mental Health) for the Family Safeguarding Model | LIMMS CARE SERVICES LTD | £210kest. | 29 Apr 2026 | active | |
| Coroner's Service Toxicology Contract | TOXICOLOGY UK LTD | £393kest. | — | active | |
| End User Workspace And Hosting | OneAdvanced IT Services Limited | £11.2mest. | 09 Apr 2026 | pending | |
| Private Rented Sector Licensing and Inspection | HOME SAFE DELIVERY PARTNERS LTD | £2.7mest. | — | active | |
| Cleaning Services | — | 90910000 | — | — | planned |
| Wensley Road Fire Engineer Consultancy | BB7 RISK ADVISORY LIMITED | 71310000 | £35k | 15 Sept 2025 | active |
| Stock Condition Surveys | RIDGE AND PARTNERS LLP | 71315300 | £135k | 01 Feb 2025 | active |
Top suppliers · by total award value
Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.
Category spend breakdown
By CPV division · lifetime awards
Activity heatmap
Award volume by CPV division × month. Darker = more £ awarded.
Commercial & procurement leadership
Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.
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.
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.
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.
target 33%
Peer benchmark
vs other buyers in the same type. Highlighted row = this buyer.
Compare against the peer group
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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
- UKJ11
- Contact
- Paul Harper
- pchub@reading.gov.uk
Board & accountable officers
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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