Spend profile

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

£43.8m
12 m spend
£1.9m
Prior 12 m
+2264%
YoY change
£533k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Southend-on-Sea City Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£12m£23m£35m£47mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

40

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

4

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

8

£1.1m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
5 recorded contracts worth £179k end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services111 · £685.2m
works15 · £203.7m
Unspecified170 · £4.9m
goods4 · £240k

Instrument type

contract292 · £892.7m
call off8 · £1.3m
Source:Find a Tender: 275Contracts Finder: 25

Awarded contracts · 48 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Southend-on-Sea 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
HC
£8.2mest.
2
SO
2 contracts · SME · 23 Jun
£2.7mest.
3
AH
2 contracts · SME
£1.1mest.
4
HC
£542k
5
FL
1 contract · SME · 08 Mar
£536k
6
PC
1 contract · SME
£530kest.
7
SA
5 contracts · SME · 19 Nov
£500kest.
8
CU
1 contract · SME · 13 Jul
£450kest.
9166
···
158 other suppliers
long tail · 120 SMEs
£5.7m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Repair & maintenance
2 contracts
£310.0m
33%
Health & social work
9 contracts
£218.2m
23%
Construction works
4 contracts
£200.6m
22%
Agriculture, forestry services
2 contracts
£134.0m
14%
Other
219 contracts
£48.7m
5%
Transport equipment, vehicles
10 contracts
£14.1m
2%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
2 contracts
£2.2m
0%
Business, legal, advisory
3 contracts
£1.1m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Repair & maintenance
Health & social work
Construction works
Agriculture, forestry services
Other
42
0
0
1
1
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 · 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.

79%
SME supplier share
target 33%
190
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
166
Distinct suppliers
63%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
20%
Local suppliers (SS postcodes)
16 of 79 with known office
74%
Value to local suppliers
£36.7m of £49.8m
48%
Postcode coverage
79 of 166 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
UKH31
Contact
Lucy Gayler
Email
procurementops@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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