Spend profile

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

£154.3m
12 m spend
£653.0m
Prior 12 m
-76%
YoY change
£178k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£85m£171m£256m£341mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

55

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

5

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

7

£1.1m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified723 · £1.3bn
services175 · £1.1bn
works20 · £1.1bn
goods8 · £750k

Instrument type

contract803 · £2.6bn
call off123 · £855.1m
Source:Contracts Finder: 696Find a Tender: 230

Awarded contracts · 132 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames 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 · 16 Sept
£314.7mest.
2
PF
3 contracts · 19 Sept22 Jul
£240.0mest.
3
MS
3 contracts · 08 Oct26 Sept
£184.1m
4
BG
£165.0mest.
5
AP
2 contracts · 26 Jun
£62.0mest.
6
CL
2 contracts · 01 Jul
£60.0mest.
7
AL
3 contracts · SME · 14 Sept27 Mar
£43.4m
8
GG
2 contracts · 20 Aug
£38.7mest.
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528 other suppliers
long tail · 315 SMEs
£710.3m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Petroleum, fuel, energy
9 contracts
£935.0m
27%
Health & social work
281 contracts
£839.5m
25%
Sewage, waste, environment
38 contracts
£781.6m
23%
Construction works
51 contracts
£214.9m
6%
Other
117 contracts
£198.0m
6%
Business, legal, advisory
39 contracts
£193.8m
6%
Recreational, cultural, sport
5 contracts
£121.9m
4%
Financial, insurance
22 contracts
£120.1m
4%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Petroleum, fuel, energy
Health & social work
Sewage, waste, environment
0
0
Construction works
14
2
Other
4
Business, legal, advisory
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 · 5 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 5 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.

61%
SME supplier share
target 33%
531
SME award rows
159
VCSE award rows
536
Distinct suppliers

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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
UKI63
Contact
Andrew Macfarlane
Email
commissioning@kingston.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.

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