Spend profile

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

£13.5m
12 m spend
£11.1m
Prior 12 m
+22%
YoY change
£60k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
West Midlands Fire Service — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£1.6m£3.2m£4.7m£6.3mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

0

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

0

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

17

£2.4m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

Unspecified342 · £83.1m
goods3 · £0
services1 · £0

Instrument type

contract343 · £83.0m
call off3 · £25k
Source:Contracts Finder: 342Find a Tender: 4

Awarded contracts · 75 live

All contracts with a published award notice where West Midlands Fire Service 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
MS
1 contract · 26 Jun
£6.6m
2
WD
1 contract · 23 May
£6.5m
3
AL
4 contracts · SME · 12 Dec10 Apr
£6.2m
4
EO
1 contract · SME · 01 Oct
£5.1m
5
BU
1 contract · SME · 19 Sept
£5.0m
6
EO
1 contract · 02 Feb
£4.9m
7
SP
6 contracts · 20 Jun20 Apr
£2.7m
8
MB
2 contracts · 28 Jun
£2.4m
9203
···
195 other suppliers
long tail · 80 SMEs
£39.7m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Transport equipment, vehicles
70 contracts
£23.0m
34%
Software packages, IT
35 contracts
£12.4m
18%
Security, emergency equipment
21 contracts
£9.2m
14%
Construction works
22 contracts
£8.3m
12%
Financial, insurance
3 contracts
£4.9m
7%
Petroleum, fuel, energy
7 contracts
£4.1m
6%
IT services, software
21 contracts
£3.1m
5%
Radio, TV, communications
12 contracts
£2.4m
4%

Activity heatmap

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

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Oct
Nov
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Feb
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Jul
Transport equipment, vehicles
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1
1
0
Software packages, IT
0
0
0
1
0
0
Security, emergency equipment
Construction works
0
Financial, insurance
Petroleum, fuel, energy
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.

West Midlands Fire Service 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.

40%
SME supplier share
target 33%
139
SME award rows
1
VCSE award rows
203
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
UKG31
Contact
Tina Daniels
Email
tina.daniels@wmfs.net

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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