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Spend analytics

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Here's the kind of dashboard you'd get with a paid membership — twelve months of UK public-sector spend with league tables for buyers, suppliers and categories, all filterable. The numbers below are illustrative.

This is an example dashboard.

The chart, KPIs and league tables below use illustrative numbers. Members see the same layout populated from live UK contract-award notices, with all the filters wired up.

Total award value

£724.6m

Across 13991 awards · value of contracts awarded, not annual spend

Average award

£52k

Across all qualifying notices

Distinct buyers

1842

Contracting authorities

Distinct suppliers

4317

Won at least one contract

Monthly spend trend

Total GBP awarded per calendar month

Peak: £84.7m

Oct '25Nov '25Dec '25Jan '26Feb '26Mar '26Apr '26May '26Jun '26Jul '26Aug '26Sep '26

Notice volume over time

Notices published per month, by type — pre-tender pipeline vs live opportunities

32,430 notices

Oct '25Nov '25Dec '25Jan '26Feb '26Mar '26Apr '26May '26Jun '26Jul '26Aug '26Sep '26
Contract Notice 15,625
Pipeline Notice 11,000
Award Notice 4,744
Modification Notice 1,061

Counts reflect notices we've collated; earlier months may under-count as feed coverage was still ramping.

Top buyers by spend

Top 20 contracting authorities in this window

  1. 1 Department for Education

    £184.5m

    412 awards · avg £448k

  2. 2 NHS England

    £152.3m

    376 awards · avg £405k

  3. 3 Ministry of Defence

    £141.7m

    188 awards · avg £754k

  4. 4 Cabinet Office

    £88.4m

    244 awards · avg £362k

  5. 5 Transport for London

    £76.2m

    159 awards · avg £479k

  6. 6 HM Revenue & Customs

    £64.9m

    121 awards · avg £536k

  7. 7 Birmingham City Council

    £42.3m

    215 awards · avg £197k

  8. 8 Leeds City Council

    £31.7m

    184 awards · avg £172k

Top suppliers by winnings

Top 20 companies named on award notices

  1. 1 Greenwave Energy Co.

    £47.2m

    28 awards · avg £1.7m

  2. 2 Northwind Construction Ltd

    £41.8m

    41 awards · avg £1.0m

  3. 3 Harbour Software Group

    £33.5m

    53 awards · avg £632k

  4. 4 BlueRiver Digital Limited

    £28.4m

    62 awards · avg £458k

  5. 5 Westside Logistics plc

    £24.9m

    19 awards · avg £1.3m

  6. 6 Acme Facilities Services

    £21.3m

    88 awards · avg £242k

  7. 7 Meridian Health Partners

    £18.7m

    34 awards · avg £550k

  8. 8 Sterling Print & Mail Ltd

    £12.4m

    96 awards · avg £129k

Spend by sector — year on year

This window vs the equal prior window · top 12 sectors

  1. 1 Construction work
    ▼ 9%

    £162.5m

    was £178.0m

  2. 2 IT services
    ▲ 13%

    £134.8m

    was £119.5m

  3. 3 Health and social work
    ▼ 31%

    £98.2m

    was £141.6m

  4. 4 Architecture & engineering
    ▼ 7%

    £67.4m

    was £72.1m

  5. 5 Transport services
    ▲ 16%

    £51.9m

    was £44.8m

  6. 6 Business services
    ▼ 25%

    £43.6m

    was £58.3m

  7. 7 Medical & pharmaceutical
    ▲ 27%

    £38.2m

    was £30.0m

  8. 8 Cleaning & environmental
    ▼ 8%

    £24.8m

    was £26.9m

Prior-period figures reflect notices we'd collated then; sectors with thin earlier coverage may show an outsized change.

Forward pipeline by sector

Pre-tender pipeline notices by sector — where upcoming procurement is concentrated

  1. 5 IT services

    221 notices

Pipeline notices flag procurement a buyer expects to run — engage early via Upcoming opportunities.

Themed tenders over time

Tenders tagged with each emerging-tech / policy theme, per month

817 tagged

Oct '25Nov '25Dec '25Jan '26Feb '26Mar '26Apr '26May '26Jun '26Jul '26Aug '26Sep '26

Counts reflect UK tenders our classifier has tagged; earlier months may under-count as tagging + feed coverage were still ramping.

Supplier market concentration

How award spend splits across suppliers in this window

Highly competitive

Top 5

6.2%

Top 10

11.5%

Top 20

19.9%

Suppliers

22,554

HHI

35

Top 5 6–10 11–20 Everyone else (22,534)

HHI (Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, 0–10,000): <1,500 competitive · 1,500–2,500 moderate · >2,500 concentrated. Based on recorded award values, excluding framework ceilings that publishers republish against every appointed supplier.

Framework usage over time

Share of notices that state a framework agreement, of those that state a procurement vehicle at all

14% overall · 1,264 of 8,778 stated

Oct '25Nov '25Dec '25Jan '26Feb '26Mar '26Apr '26May '26Jun '26Jul '26Aug '26Sep '26

From published notices flagged as framework agreements. Frameworks let buyers call off pre-competed suppliers — browse joinable ones on Frameworks.

Spend by buyer type

Award spend across the public sector, by type of contracting authority

  1. 1 NHS & health

    £165.4m

    10,266 awards

  2. 2 Local government

    £133.4m

    19,626 awards

  3. 3 Education

    £128.3m

    2,779 awards

  4. 4 Police & emergency

    £71.8m

    1,144 awards

  5. 5 Central government

    £19.2m

    2,212 awards

  6. 6 Other

    £206.5m

    11,448 awards

Types are inferred from the buyer name; “Other” is authorities we can’t confidently classify (arms-length bodies, housing associations, etc.).

Spend by category

Top 15 procurement categories in this window

  1. 1 Construction work

    £162.5m

    487 awards

Who's actually being paid

Transparency spend

Actual payments over £25,000 that government departments publish — the money out the door, alongside the award notices above.

Total paid out

£12.48bn

Payments tracked

103,256

Suppliers paid

6,214

Top suppliers paid

Most public money received in actual payments

  1. 1 Capgemini UK plc

    £412.7m

    318 payments

  2. 2 Fujitsu Services Limited

    £357.2m

    274 payments

  3. 3 BT plc

    £288.9m

    511 payments

  4. 4 Atos IT Services UK Ltd

    £241.5m

    203 payments

  5. 5 Serco Limited

    £198.4m

    187 payments

  6. 6 G4S Care and Justice Services

    £164.8m

    142 payments

  7. 7 Sopra Steria Limited

    £132.6m

    168 payments

  8. 8 Mitie Limited

    £98.3m

    421 payments

Top paying departments

Which bodies put the most money out the door

  1. 1 Department for Work and Pensions

    £5.84bn

    51,204 payments

  2. 2 HM Revenue & Customs

    £3.12bn

    28,417 payments

  3. 3 Ministry of Defence

    £1.90bn

    9,882 payments

  4. 4 Ministry of Justice

    £884.0m

    6,733 payments

  5. 5 Home Office

    £432.0m

    4,188 payments

  6. 6 Department for Transport

    £300.0m

    2,832 payments

How these figures are calculated

Totals are the value of contracts awarded in the window, not what was spent in a year. Framework ceilings and cross-portal duplicates are excluded so the same money isn't counted twice, and every award of £1bn or more is queued for review against the buyer's own notice — those still waiting to be read are counted as published. Counts are never filtered.

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