Spend profile

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

£15.8m
12 m spend
£57.8m
Prior 12 m
-73%
YoY change
£99k
Median award
Awards (£m)12m moving avg
West Northamptonshire Council — monthly award value, rolling 24 months£0£2.1m£4.1m£6.2m£8.3mAugNovFebMayAugNovFebMay

Contract pipeline

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

Planned

52

Pipeline notices

Open (bidding)

1

Live tenders

Awarded (90d)

2

£7.1m

Frameworks open

0

Framework / DPS routes
42 recorded contracts worth £6.7m end within 12 months.View expiry radar →

Procurement mix

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

Contract type

services598 · £3.0bn
Unspecified378 · £111.3m
works16 · £61.7m
goods8 · £1.1m

Instrument type

contract986 · £3.2bn
call off14 · £45.6m
Source:Find a Tender: 701Contracts Finder: 299

Awarded contracts · 97 live

All contracts with a published award notice where West Northamptonshire 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
AS
£2.0bnest.
2
HP
£2.0bnest.
3
TW
£237.0mest.
4
FW
£237.0mest.
5
SS
£32.2mest.
6
PS
£32.2mest.
7
GP
£32.2mest.
8
CS
£32.2mest.
9404
···
396 other suppliers
long tail · 197 SMEs
£372.3m

Category spend breakdown

By CPV division · lifetime awards

Other
564 contracts
£4.4bn
73%
Sewage, waste, environment
26 contracts
£610.1m
10%
Business, legal, advisory
54 contracts
£557.6m
9%
Transport services
3 contracts
£200.2m
3%
Financial, insurance
7 contracts
£84.8m
1%
Construction works
35 contracts
£74.4m
1%
Construction materials
7 contracts
£47.6m
1%
Health & social work
49 contracts
£28.6m
0%

Activity heatmap

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

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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 Northamptonshire 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.

49%
SME supplier share
target 33%
433
SME award rows
10
VCSE award rows
404
Distinct suppliers
3%
SME share of awarded value
where SME status recorded
10%
Local suppliers (NN postcodes)
17 of 178 with known office
2%
Value to local suppliers
£45.9m of £3.0bn
44%
Postcode coverage
178 of 404 matched suppliers
Local = Companies House registered office in the NN 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
UKG13
Contact
Alex Donnelly
Email
Alex.Donnelly@northnorthants.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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