Quick answer — Sport EnglandLast refreshed 04 May 2026

At a glance

Sport England has awarded £322.7m across 219 suppliers, with 253 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 28% · 25 open notices now · 7 awards in last 90 d (£12.7m) · SME share 32% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 1 modification in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration28%
Modifications · 90 d1
SME spend share32%
Pipeline · open now25
Awards · 90 d7

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Sport England is a contracting authority, based in UKF22. Tracks 451 published notices and 423 awards on PublicSupply.

451
Notices published
423
Awards
219
Suppliers engaged
2016
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£1.2bn
12 m spend
£32.6m
Prior 12 m
+3428%
YoY change
£235k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Sport England — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£311m£622m£933m£1244mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

13

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

25

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

7

£12.7m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified376 · £235.3m
services70 · £93.4m
goods5 · £1.2m

Instrument type

contract396 · £275.6m
call off55 · £54.4m
Source:Contracts Finder: 330Find a Tender: 121

Awarded contracts · 253 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Sport England is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
SE1219 Foresight and Trends Monitoring48000000£55k04 May 2026active
SE1252 Cloud Support Managed ServiceCIVICA48000000£147k01 Apr 2026active
SE1249 - TGC Media Buying AgencyWavemaker Limitedactive
SE1249 - TGC Media Buying AgencyWavemaker Limited£12.3mpending
SE1249 - TGC Media Buying AgencyWavemaker Limited£12.3m26 Mar 2026pending
SE1251 Active Lives adult small area estimates 2024-25Substance 2005 Limited£13k03 Mar 2026active
SE1251 Active Lives adult small area estimates 2024-25Substance 2005 Limited£13kpending
SE1246 Organisational Narrative DevelopmentUndivided Limited03 Mar 2026active
SE1246 Organisational Narrative DevelopmentUndivided Limitedpending
SE1239 TASS Regional Coaching HubTalented Athlete Scholarship Scheme College House£25k25 Mar 2026active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
UF
4 contracts · 24 Sept
£90.4mest.
28% of total
New
2
CS
5 contracts · 24 Sept
£56.3mest.
17% of total
New
3
TS
7 contracts · 16 Apr24 Sept
£50.6mest.
16% of total
New
4
SL
6 contracts · 16 Apr24 Sept
£50.6mest.
16% of total
New
5
FC
6 contracts · 16 Apr24 Sept
£50.6mest.
16% of total
New
6
MA
7 contracts · 16 Apr24 Sept
£50.6mest.
16% of total
New
7
KK
6 contracts · 24 Sept
£50.3mest.
16% of total
New
8
SA
3 contracts · 23 Jul24 Sept
£45.9m
14% of total
▲ 5150%
9219
···
211 other suppliers
long tail · 63 SMEs
£913.0m
283% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
139 contracts
£1.3bn
86%
Business, legal, advisory
173 contracts
£99.3m
7%
Architecture, engineering
22 contracts
£53.0m
3%
R&D services
114 contracts
£34.0m
2%
IT services, software
45 contracts
£10.5m
1%
Software packages, IT
28 contracts
£4.5m
0%
Construction works
3 contracts
£3.6m
0%
Financial, insurance
10 contracts
£2.0m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Other
1130
0
4
0
12
Business, legal, advisory
0
0
0
0
Architecture, engineering
R&D services
0
0
1
IT services, software
1
Software packages, IT
0
0
0
0
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 · 1 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 1 notice 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.

32%
SME supplier share
target 33%
140
SME award rows
2
VCSE award rows
219
Distinct suppliers
⚠ Below target. SME supplier share at 32% 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
UKF22
Companies House
RC000766
Contact
Procurement
Email
Procurement@SPORTENGLAND.ORG

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.

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