Spend profile

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

£33.5m
12 m spend
£35.9m
Prior 12 m
-7%
YoY change
£110k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Torbay Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£6.1m£12m£18m£24mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

33

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

2

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

17

£3.3m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified785 · £682.1m
services165 · £284.8m
goods39 · £25.8m
works11 · £20.4m

Instrument type

contract882 · £850.7m
call off118 · £162.4m
Source:Contracts Finder: 705Find a Tender: 295

Awarded contracts · 215 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Torbay 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
TS
9 contracts · 31 Mar30 Apr
£93.6m
2
TS
1 contract · 01 Oct
£57.0m
3
KC
2 contracts · 31 Mar05 Oct
£32.3m
4
WG
1 contract · SME · 02 Nov
£25.0m
5
MH
4 contracts · 28 Jul
£22.8m
6
SW
4 contracts · 06 Nov06 Sept
£22.1mest.
7
HL
2 contracts · SME · 20 Dec
£18.0m
8
RD
£15.1m
91088
···
1,080 other suppliers
long tail · 795 SMEs
£447.7m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Health & social work
182 contracts
£250.3m
23%
Construction works
114 contracts
£220.0m
20%
Other
255 contracts
£202.3m
19%
Business, legal, advisory
121 contracts
£153.5m
14%
Transport equipment, vehicles
34 contracts
£132.9m
12%
Other community services
99 contracts
£70.1m
7%
Architecture, engineering
63 contracts
£27.0m
3%
Education, training
74 contracts
£20.2m
2%

Activity heatmap

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

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Oct
Nov
Dec
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Apr
May
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Health & social work
Construction works
0
Other
3
17
1
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1
2
Business, legal, advisory
0
Transport equipment, vehicles
Other community services
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.

Torbay 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.

78%
SME supplier share
target 33%
1614
SME award rows
112
VCSE award rows
1088
Distinct suppliers

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
UKK4
Contact
Clare Farquhar
Email
procurement.team@torbay.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.

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