Spend profile

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

£73k
12 m spend
£409k
Prior 12 m
-82%
YoY change
£82k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Royal Northern College of Music — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£275k£550k£825k£1.1mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
10 recorded contracts worth £810k end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified68 · £8.6m
services5 · £0
goods1 · £0

Instrument type

contract74 · £8.6m
Source:Contracts Finder: 68Find a Tender: 6

Awarded contracts · 20 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Royal Northern College of Music 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
DG
3 contracts · SME · 17 Oct21 Dec
£1.0m
2
PT
1 contract · 15 Jun
£707k
3
HC
1 contract · 22 Apr
£631k
4
GH
1 contract · SME · 15 Jun
£620k
5
CB
1 contract · 01 Nov
£598k
6
IP
3 contracts · 12 Sept18 Apr
£470k
7
AG
2 contracts · 15 Oct01 Aug
£201k
8
BG
1 contract · SME · 01 Feb
£200k
961
···
53 other suppliers
long tail · 28 SMEs
£4.1m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
8 contracts
£3.0m
39%
Business, legal, advisory
15 contracts
£1.1m
15%
Food, beverages, tobacco
7 contracts
£946k
13%
Architecture, engineering
9 contracts
£887k
12%
IT services, software
1 contract
£598k
8%
Office equipment, IT
5 contracts
£432k
6%
Software packages, IT
4 contracts
£326k
4%
Furniture, cleaning
5 contracts
£286k
4%

Activity heatmap

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

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Construction works
Business, legal, advisory
0
Food, beverages, tobacco
Architecture, engineering
IT services, software
Office equipment, IT
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 · 0 in 90 d

Variations logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74. Above-tolerance modifications attract a flag.

Total mods
0
Above tolerance
0
Total value
£0
Novations
0

No modifications recorded in the last 90 days.

Royal Northern College of Music has not filed a modification notice in the selected window.

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.

49%
SME supplier share
target 33%
34
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
61
Distinct suppliers
37%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
12%
Local suppliers (M postcodes)
3 of 26 with known office
4%
Value to local suppliers
£136k of £3.6m
43%
Postcode coverage
26 of 61 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the M 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
UKD33
Companies House
01881434
Contact
Mark Pearson
Email
mark.pearson@rncm.ac.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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