Spend profile

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

£324.0m
12 m spend
£123.4m
Prior 12 m
+163%
YoY change
£200k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Southampton City Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£38m£76m£114m£152mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

50

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

11

£31.2m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
55 recorded contracts worth £47.5m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services253 · £247.1bn
Unspecified677 · £1.1bn
works36 · £139.4m
goods34 · £40.3m

Instrument type

contract887 · £247.8bn
call off113 · £565.0m
Source:Contracts Finder: 609Find a Tender: 391

Awarded contracts · 242 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Southampton City 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
CQ
3 contracts · SME · 06 Jun
£975.6mest.
2
SN
4 contracts · 12 Aug
£159.7mest.
3
CC
10 contracts · 16 Aug18 Dec
£137.9mest.
4
TM
4 contracts · 14 Jun12 Nov
£119.5mest.
5
FM
1 contract · SME · 28 Nov
£100.0m
6
FF
1 contract · SME · 28 Nov
£100.0m
7
FU
1 contract · SME · 28 Nov
£100.0m
8
GL
1 contract · SME · 28 Nov
£100.0m
9540
···
532 other suppliers
long tail · 352 SMEs
£2.1bn

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Health & social work
246 contracts
£290.7bn
99%
Sewage, waste, environment
16 contracts
£2.0bn
1%
Other
200 contracts
£1.9bn
1%
Construction works
100 contracts
£202.3m
0%
Transport equipment, vehicles
20 contracts
£67.6m
0%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
8 contracts
£58.2m
0%
Transport services
158 contracts
£53.7m
0%
Business, legal, advisory
46 contracts
£46.4m
0%

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
Sewage, waste, environment
Other
34
1
1
6
15
138
1
30
Construction works
30
0
0
0
0
Transport equipment, vehicles
60
0
Petroleum, fuel, energy
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.

58%
SME supplier share
target 33%
563
SME award rows
64
VCSE award rows
540
Distinct suppliers
84%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
14%
Local suppliers (SO postcodes)
38 of 270 with known office
27%
Value to local suppliers
£10.2bn of £37.7bn
50%
Postcode coverage
270 of 540 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the SO 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
UKJ32
Contact
Rohith Mani
Email
procurement@southampton.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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