Spend profile

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

£36.5m
12 m spend
£41.3m
Prior 12 m
-12%
YoY change
£108k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Sunderland City Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£5.0m£10.0m£15m£20mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

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)

0

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
106 recorded contracts worth £47.8m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified801 · £443.5m
works31 · £176.8m
services145 · £65.5m
goods23 · £4.0m

Instrument type

contract932 · £548.1m
call off68 · £141.6m
Source:Contracts Finder: 708Find a Tender: 292

Awarded contracts · 205 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Sunderland 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
KC
£62.4m
2
HA
3 contracts · 06 Feb01 Apr
£42.4m
3
EC
8 contracts · 25 Jun14 Nov
£32.7m
4
VL
1 contract · 26 Aug
£30.0m
5
BC
3 contracts · SME · 29 Oct10 Aug
£29.3mest.
6
SR
£26.4mest.
7
NA
1 contract · 21 Feb
£14.2m
8
CK
2 contracts · SME · 26 Oct01 Apr
£10.5m
9673
···
665 other suppliers
long tail · 447 SMEs
£219.8m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Construction works
144 contracts
£358.5m
53%
Other
148 contracts
£96.5m
14%
Health & social work
61 contracts
£88.5m
13%
Business, legal, advisory
119 contracts
£42.7m
6%
Transport services
78 contracts
£29.2m
4%
Architecture, engineering
73 contracts
£25.2m
4%
Transport equipment, vehicles
32 contracts
£18.6m
3%
Education, training
98 contracts
£16.5m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Construction works
0
Other
18
0
0
1
12
Health & social work
Business, legal, advisory
0
Transport services
Architecture, engineering
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 · 2 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 2 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.

66%
SME supplier share
target 33%
690
SME award rows
87
VCSE award rows
673
Distinct suppliers
38%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
5%
Local suppliers (SR postcodes)
13 of 239 with known office
1%
Value to local suppliers
£1.7m of £188.9m
36%
Postcode coverage
239 of 673 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the SR 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
UKC23
Contact
Andrew Raft
Email
corporate.procurement@sunderland.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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