Name: southend on sea procurement activity
Creator: PublicSupply
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Quick answer — southend on seaLast refreshed 31 Oct 2017

At a glance

southend on sea has awarded £3.4m across 12 suppliers.

Why: Top supplier share 31% · 0 open notices now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 8% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals

Top-supplier concentration31%

Modifications · 90 d0

SME spend share8%

Pipeline · open now0

Awards · 90 d0

Supplier?Pipeline Top suppliers Categories boughtWatchdog?Modifications FOIA & transparency SME share

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

southend on sea is a contracting authority, based in United Kingdom. Tracks 9 published notices and 9 awards on PublicSupply.

9

Notices published

9

Awards

12

Suppliers engaged

2011

First award on file

Spend profile

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

£0

12 m spend

£0

Prior 12 m

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YoY change

£82k

Median award

Awards (£m)12m moving avg

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

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Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

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Awarded (90d)

0

£0

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Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified9 · £3.4m

Instrument type

call off2 · £2.3m

contract7 · £1.1m

Source:Contracts Finder: 9

Awarded contracts · 0 live

All contracts with a published award notice where southend on sea is the contracting authority.

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Title	Supplier	CPV	Value	Awarded	Status
Provision of Employee Absence Management Services	First Care	79414000	£320k	31 Oct 2017	active
Tender for Supply of White Goods	Sale Appliances Limited	39700000	£207k	13 Feb 2017	active
Tender for Printing and Associated Services	Ricoh UK Limited	22000000	£1.1m	04 Nov 2011	active
Tender for Printing and Associated Services	Formara Limited	22000000	£1.1m	04 Nov 2011	active
Tender for the Supply of Essential Cemetery and Crematorium Grounds Maintenance Equipment	Ernest Doe and Sons Ltd.	43320000	£55k	10 Jul 2016	active
Tender for the Supply of Essential Cemetery and Crematorium Grounds Maintenance Equipment	George Browns Ltd.	43320000	£55k	10 Jul 2016	active
Tender for the Supply of Backhoe Loader for Cemetery and Crematorium Grounds Maintenance	Greenshields JCB Limited	43200000	£44k	19 Oct 2016	active
Tender for Works to Deliver Crematorium Memorial Scheme and Cremated Remains Plots	Greenbridge Designs Ltd.	45215000	£449k	08 Sept 2016	active
Tender for the Supply of Backhoe Loader for Cemetery and Crematorium Grounds Maintenance	—	43200000	£0	—	active
Removal of Mixed Quality Inert Fill	W&H Roads Ltd.	45112000	£109k	10 Jul 2016	active

Showing 1–10 of 13

Top suppliers · by total award value

Ranked by cumulative awarded value. YoY = last 12 months vs prior 12 months.

1

RU

Ricoh UK Limited

1 contract · 04 Nov

£1.1m

31% of total

—

2

FL

Formara Limited

1 contract · 04 Nov

£1.1m

31% of total

—

3

GD

Greenbridge Designs Ltd.

1 contract · 08 Sept

£449k

13% of total

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4

FC

First Care

1 contract · SME · 31 Oct

£320k

9% of total

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5

SA

Sale Appliances Limited

1 contract · 13 Feb

£207k

6% of total

—

6

WR

W&H Roads Ltd.

1 contract · 10 Jul

£109k

3% of total

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7

ED

Ernest Doe and Sons Ltd.

1 contract · 10 Jul

£55k

2% of total

—

8

GB

George Browns Ltd.

1 contract · 10 Jul

£55k

2% of total

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9–12

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4 other suppliers

long tail · 0 SMEs

£78k

2% of total

various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Printed matter

2 contracts

£2.1m

62%

Construction works

2 contracts

£558k

17%

Business, legal, advisory

4 contracts

£354k

10%

Furniture, cleaning

1 contract

£207k

6%

Mining machinery

4 contracts

£153k

5%

Activity heatmap

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

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Dec

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Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Printed matter

Construction works

Business, legal, advisory

Furniture, cleaning

Mining machinery

LessMore (£m awarded)

Commercial & procurement leadership

Who signs off contracts, owns frameworks and runs SME engagement.

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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.

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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.

southend on sea 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.

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SME & social value

Performance against Cabinet Office targets & PPN 06/20.

8%

SME supplier share
target 33%

1

SME award rows

0

VCSE award rows

12

Distinct suppliers

⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 8% vs Cabinet Office target of 33%.

Peer benchmark

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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: United Kingdom

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.

Buyer	Type	12 m spend	Top-supplier %	SME %	Mods · 90 d
southend on sea	self	£24.8bn	14%	24%	12 (3)
Peer A	—	£8.2bn	11%	34%	3 (0)
Peer B	—	£3.2bn	18%	31%	4 (0)
Peer C	—	£1.84bn	9%	42%	0

About this buyer

Spend profile

Contract pipeline

Planned

Open (bidding)

Awarded (90d)

Frameworks open

Procurement mix

Contract type

Instrument type

Awarded contracts · 0 live

Top suppliers · by total award value

Category spend breakdown

Activity heatmap

Commercial & procurement leadership

Curated leadership roster

Modifications · 0 in 90 d

Compliance & transparency

FOIA & prompt-payment ingestion

SME & social value

Peer benchmark

Compare against the peer group

News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Identifiers & contact

Board & accountable officers

Accountable officer + board roster

Resources

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