Spend profile

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

£180.6m
12 m spend
£124.2m
Prior 12 m
+45%
YoY change
£136k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
West Midlands Combined Authority — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£17m£34m£52m£69mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

63

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

21

£38.5m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
61 recorded contracts worth £50.1m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services193 · £8.0bn
Unspecified777 · £453.4m
works14 · £24.7m
goods16 · £19.7m

Instrument type

contract962 · £8.4bn
call off38 · £96.7m
Source:Contracts Finder: 639Find a Tender: 361

Awarded contracts · 158 live

All contracts with a published award notice where West Midlands Combined Authority 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
LT
3 contracts · SME · 19 Dec
£90.0mest.
2
DB
5 contracts · 22 Aug10 Nov
£65.8mest.
3
BS
4 contracts · SME · 06 Feb22 Apr
£59.3mest.
4
WM
7 contracts · 29 Sept05 Jun
£58.3mest.
5
WC
£55.0mest.
6
CC
£55.0mest.
7
SL
£55.0mest.
8
BB
1 contract · SME
£55.0mest.
9455
···
447 other suppliers
long tail · 231 SMEs
£379.8m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Education, training
69 contracts
£5.3bn
53%
Transport services
90 contracts
£3.3bn
33%
Architecture, engineering
168 contracts
£775.9m
8%
Other
235 contracts
£325.8m
3%
Transport equipment, vehicles
19 contracts
£177.8m
2%
Construction works
35 contracts
£76.8m
1%
Business, legal, advisory
126 contracts
£55.7m
1%
IT services, software
63 contracts
£51.6m
1%

Activity heatmap

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

Aug
Sept
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Education, training
Transport services
0
0
0
0
Architecture, engineering
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
Other
15
0
10
60
15
4
15
37
Transport equipment, vehicles
0
0
Construction works
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.

39%
SME supplier share
target 33%
335
SME award rows
12
VCSE award rows
455
Distinct suppliers
43%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
9%
Local suppliers (B postcodes)
17 of 183 with known office
35%
Value to local suppliers
£191.7m of £553.1m
40%
Postcode coverage
183 of 455 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the B 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
UKG31
Companies House
11658734
Contact
Chanel Herbert
Email
procurement.team@wmca.org.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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