Spend profile

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

£39.4m
12 m spend
£94.7m
Prior 12 m
-58%
YoY change
£150k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Somerset Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£4.9m£9.7m£15m£19mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

67

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

4

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

3

£2.1m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
45 recorded contracts worth £81.5m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services254 · £3.6bn
Unspecified688 · £815.0m
works31 · £446.5m
goods27 · £30.5m

Instrument type

contract940 · £4.5bn
call off60 · £401.4m
Source:Contracts Finder: 515Find a Tender: 485

Awarded contracts · 126 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Somerset Council 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
SC
£577.7mest.
2
MS
9 contracts · SME
£460.3mest.
3
MH
£450.0mest.
4
AC
1 contract
£450.0mest.
5
HQ
£200.0mest.
6
OI
£171.0mest.
7
VL
2 contracts · 17 Jul
£150.0mest.
8
KT
1 contract · 22 Jan
£150.0m
9461
···
453 other suppliers
long tail · 225 SMEs
£1.2bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Health & social work
118 contracts
£5.2bn
61%
Transport equipment, vehicles
30 contracts
£1.4bn
16%
Other
266 contracts
£764.2m
9%
Sewage, waste, environment
8 contracts
£573.5m
7%
Construction works
135 contracts
£342.5m
4%
Architecture, engineering
16 contracts
£95.1m
1%
Repair & maintenance
3 contracts
£87.4m
1%
Education, training
70 contracts
£78.1m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Health & social work
Transport equipment, vehicles
0
0
Other
0
1
0
0
12
2
2
Sewage, waste, environment
Construction works
1
0
15
Architecture, engineering
0
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 · 6 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 6 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.

52%
SME supplier share
target 33%
405
SME award rows
24
VCSE award rows
461
Distinct suppliers
26%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
9%
Local suppliers (TA postcodes)
17 of 195 with known office
45%
Value to local suppliers
£1.1bn of £2.5bn
42%
Postcode coverage
195 of 461 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the TA 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
UKK23
Contact
Mr Steve Barker
Email
stephen.barker@somerset.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.

Resources

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