Quick answer — STAR Procurement C/O Trafford CouncilLast refreshed 07 May 2025

At a glance

STAR Procurement C/O Trafford Council has awarded £3.5bn across 24 suppliers, with 49 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 6% · 1 open notice now · 0 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 63% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 0 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration6%
Modifications · 90 d0
SME spend share63%
Pipeline · open now1
Awards · 90 d0

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

STAR Procurement C/O Trafford Council is a contracting authority, based in UKD. Tracks 4 published notices and 9 awards on PublicSupply.

4
Notices published
9
Awards
24
Suppliers engaged
2025
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£0
12 m spend
£259.5m
Prior 12 m
-100%
YoY change
£400.0m
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
STAR Procurement C/O Trafford Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£71m£143m£214m£285mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

goods2 · £400.0m
Unspecified2 · £400.0m

Instrument type

contract4 · £800.0m
Source:Find a Tender: 2Contracts Finder: 2

Awarded contracts · 49 live

All contracts with a published award notice where STAR Procurement C/O Trafford Council is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
STAR & TPPL Materials FrameworkWolseley UK Ltd44100000£400.0mest.active
STAR & TPPL Materials FrameworkTravis Perkins Trading Company Limited44100000£400.0mest.active
STAR & TPPL Materials FrameworkSTARK Building Materials UK Ltd44100000£400.0mest.active
STAR & TPPL Materials FrameworkIBMG LTD trading as Grant & Stone Ltd44100000£400.0mest.active
STAR & TPPL Materials FrameworkHuws Gray Ltd44100000£400.0mest.active
STAR & TPPL Materials FrameworkBradfords Building Supplies Limited44100000£400.0mest.active
STAR & TPPL Materials Framework44100000£400.0mest.active
STAR & TPPL Materials FrameworkUK Plumbing Supplies Limited44100000£400.0mest.active
STAR & TPPL Materials FrameworkCu-Plas Supplies Limited44100000£400.0mest.active
STAR & TPPL Materials FrameworkCity Plumbing Supplies Holdings Limited44100000£400.0mest.active
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Top suppliers · by total award value

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

1
SI
2 contracts · SME · 07 May
£210.8mest.
6% of total
▼ 100%
2
LU
2 contracts · 07 May
£210.8mest.
6% of total
▼ 100%
3
DA
2 contracts · SME · 07 May
£210.8mest.
6% of total
▼ 100%
4
TT
2 contracts · 07 May
£210.8mest.
6% of total
▼ 100%
5
IL
2 contracts · SME · 07 May
£210.8mest.
6% of total
▼ 100%
6
SR
2 contracts · SME · 07 May
£210.8mest.
6% of total
▼ 100%
7
UP
2 contracts · 07 May
£144.1mest.
4% of total
▼ 100%
8
CS
2 contracts · SME · 07 May
£144.1mest.
4% of total
▼ 100%
924
···
16 other suppliers
long tail · 1 SME
£1.5bn
44% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction materials
50 contracts
£10.3bn
100%

Activity heatmap

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

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Construction materials
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.

STAR Procurement C/O Trafford 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.

63%
SME supplier share
target 33%
30
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
24
Distinct suppliers

Peer benchmark

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
UKD
Email
tenders@tppl.co.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.

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