Spend profile

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

£2.7m
12 m spend
£366.0m
Prior 12 m
-99%
YoY change
£111k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Southend-on-sea Borough Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£99m£198m£297m£396mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

3

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

1

£77k

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
21 recorded contracts worth £13.4m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified758 · £1.1bn
services39 · £538.7m
works14 · £8.3m
goods8 · £0

Instrument type

contract643 · £1.4bn
call off176 · £153.4m
Source:Contracts Finder: 758Find a Tender: 61

Awarded contracts · 68 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Southend-on-sea Borough 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
NE
£450.0mest.
2
SR
2 contracts · 15 Jan13 May
£405.0m
3
SH
£400.0m
4
HS
2 contracts · 26 Sept12 Jul
£71.0m
5
LH
1 contract · 18 Apr
£50.0m
6
PS
3 contracts · SME · 30 Apr29 Apr
£5.6m
7
MC
3 contracts · SME · 19 Jun12 Jul
£4.9m
8
BR
2 contracts · 04 Dec
£4.3m
9326
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318 other suppliers
long tail · 196 SMEs
£116.8m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
14 contracts
£474.6m
30%
Construction works
112 contracts
£441.5m
28%
Sewage, waste, environment
15 contracts
£407.0m
26%
Business, legal, advisory
24 contracts
£74.6m
5%
Agriculture, forestry services
1 contract
£60.0m
4%
Transport equipment, vehicles
17 contracts
£51.7m
3%
Architecture, engineering
29 contracts
£27.7m
2%
Software packages, IT
53 contracts
£19.5m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

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Other
Construction works
0
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Business, legal, advisory
Agriculture, forestry services
Transport equipment, vehicles
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 · 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 Borough Council 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.

57%
SME supplier share
target 33%
265
SME award rows
38
VCSE award rows
326
Distinct suppliers
6%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
7%
Local suppliers (SS postcodes)
9 of 131 with known office
1%
Value to local suppliers
£7.3m of £598.9m
40%
Postcode coverage
131 of 326 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the SS 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
UKH3
Contact
Mrs Norma Ashton
Email
normaashton@seh.southend.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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