Quick answer — Waste & Resources Action ProgrammeLast refreshed 31 Mar 2026

At a glance

Waste & Resources Action Programme has awarded £132.5m across 172 suppliers, with 296 live contracts.

Why: Top supplier share 7% · 31 open notices now · 16 awards in last 90 d (£0) · SME share 51% (Cabinet Office target 33%) · 2 modifications in last 90 d.

Decision signals
Top-supplier concentration7%
Modifications · 90 d2
SME spend share51%
Pipeline · open now31
Awards · 90 d16

About this buyer

Mission, scope and statutory context.

Waste & Resources Action Programme is a contracting authority, based in United Kingdom. Tracks 243 published notices and 242 awards on PublicSupply.

243
Notices published
242
Awards
172
Suppliers engaged
2015
First award on file

Spend profile

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

£45.4m
12 m spend
£2.2m
Prior 12 m
+1976%
YoY change
£645k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
Waste & Resources Action Programme — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0m£7m£15m£22m£29mJulOctJanAprJulOctJanApr

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

9

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

31

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

16

£0

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified196 · £60.2m
services46 · £56.9m
goods1 · £0

Instrument type

contract224 · £117.1m
call off19 · £0
Source:Find a Tender: 152Contracts Finder: 91

Awarded contracts · 296 live

All contracts with a published award notice where Waste & Resources Action Programme is the contracting authority.

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TitleSupplierCPVValueAwardedStatus
FRA086 - Digital Services FrameworkSwype Creative Ltdactive
FRA086 - Digital Services FrameworkMixo Ads Inc.active
FRA086 - Digital Services FrameworkiCrossing Ltdactive
FRA086 - Digital Services FrameworkFour Communications Ltdactive
FRA086 - Digital Services FrameworkTorchbox Ltdactive
FRA086 - Digital Services FrameworkKindred Agency Ltdactive
FRA086 - Digital Services FrameworkHelen Triggsactive
FRA086 - Digital Services FrameworkLe Berrichon Ltdactive
FRA086 - Digital Services FrameworkHex Digital Ltdactive
FRA086 - Digital Services FrameworkAxelerant Technologies, Inc.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
RF
22 contracts · SME · 18 Nov03 Oct
£9.8mest.
7% of total
▲ 900%
2
RL
16 contracts · 18 Sept01 Sept
£9.0mest.
7% of total
▲ 900%
3
GG
18 contracts · SME · 31 Aug01 Oct
£8.1mest.
6% of total
▲ 900%
4
CI
8 contracts · SME · 29 Mar08 Oct
£5.3mest.
4% of total
New
5
KA
4 contracts · SME · 30 Mar31 Mar
£5.2m
4% of total
6
RY
2 contracts · 30 Mar18 Mar
£5.2m
4% of total
7
ER
16 contracts · SME · 22 Feb01 Sept
£4.8mest.
4% of total
▲ 900%
8
SC
18 contracts · 19 Mar13 Mar
£4.1mest.
3% of total
New
9172
···
164 other suppliers
long tail · 76 SMEs
£98.0m
74% of total
various

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Sewage, waste, environment
121 contracts
£200.9m
50%
Other
225 contracts
£127.3m
31%
Business, legal, advisory
94 contracts
£48.3m
12%
R&D services
43 contracts
£14.9m
4%
Architecture, engineering
2 contracts
£7.5m
2%
IT services, software
22 contracts
£5.3m
1%
Software packages, IT
5 contracts
£710k
0%
Mining, metals
2 contracts
£374k
0%

Activity heatmap

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

Jul
Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Sewage, waste, environment
Other
19
26
Business, legal, advisory
R&D services
Architecture, engineering
IT services, software
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.

51%
SME supplier share
target 33%
226
SME award rows
0
VCSE award rows
172
Distinct suppliers

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News mentions

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Statutory & accountability

Legal status, identifiers & accountable officers.

Identifiers & contact

Type
Contracting authority
Region
United Kingdom

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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