Greater Manchester Combined Authority: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY·ONS register: Combined-authority·Local authority·North West England·Manchester
Official UK PPONPXBN-3793-LCTQ
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 33 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
437 awarded tenders, 676 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
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| Regional Care Cooperative - Supported Accommodation | 20 Nov 2026 | 24d | £20,000,000 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
72 IT services: consulting, software, internet26 procedures · 6%85 Health and social work services21 procedures · 5% · 1 open80 Education and training services20 procedures · 5%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting14 procedures · 3%48 Software package and information systems13 procedures · 3%73 Research and development services12 procedures · 3%98 Other community, social and personal services12 procedures · 3%75 Administration, defence and social security8 procedures · 2%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 401 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract98%(394 notices)
394 of 401 notices are Contract (98%).Framework2%(7 notices)
7 of 401 notices are Framework (2%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Direct award53%(213 notices)
213 of 401 notices are Direct award (53%).Limited / restricted17%(69 notices)
69 of 401 notices are Limited / restricted (17%).Route not published16%(65 notices)
65 of 401 notices are Route not published (16%).Open11%(43 notices)
43 of 401 notices are Open (11%).Selective3%(11 notices)
11 of 401 notices are Selective (3%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 33 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 22 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 401 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 18 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| The Growth Company Limited | 15 | 3.4% | 4 | 19 | 11 Jul 2025 |
| Marketing Manchester | 6 | 1.4% | 4 | 6 | 29 Apr 2026 |
| Metro Dynamics Limited | 5 | 1.1% | 5 | 5 | — |
| Bluestar Software Limited | 4 | 0.9% | 4 | 4 | — |
| Greater Manchester Immigration Aid Unit (GMIAU) | 4 | 0.9% | 3 | 4 | 28 Aug 2026 |
| Bright Direction Training Limited | 4 | 0.9% | 0 | 4 | — |
| ACORN TRAINING LTD | 4 | 0.9% | 0 | 4 | — |
| Realise Learning and Employment Limited | 4 | 0.9% | 0 | 4 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 437 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 676 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Utilities - Gas and Electric | EDF | — | — | £19,200,000 † |
| Greater Manchester Housing First and Rough Sleepers Accommodation Programme | Great Places Housing Association | — | — | £12,803,605 † |
| GMCA1409 - Working Well: Individual Placement & Support in Primary Care (IPSPC) | The Growth Company Limited | — | — | £7,400,000 † |
| Young Persons Homelessness Pathfinder | Bridges Outcomes Partnerships | 8 Feb 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £6,539,222 ≈ £6.5m/yr |
| GMCA1667.4 Greater Manchester Integrated Rehabilitation Services (GMIRS) Wellbeing Support & Integration Service | THE BIG LIFE COMPANY LIMITED | 11 Mar 2026 | 1 yrs · up to 1.5 yrs | £5,831,989 ≈ £5.8m/yr |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
507 of 677 contracts carry an end date, 171 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Op Soteria and VAWG Consultancy | 2Novate | 31 Oct 2026 | £53,000 |
| GMCA 1841 Youth Census UK Services | YOUTH EMPLOYMENT UK C.I.C. | 31 Oct 2026 | £25,000 |
| GMCA 1851 AI Prevention Demonstrator | Informed Solutions Ltd. | 2 Nov 2026 | £89,870 |
| Strategic Delivery Partner - Good Lives GM | The Innovation Unit Ltd, | 5 Nov 2026 | £420,000 |
| GMCA1542 Enhanced Live Well Locality Development & Support Consultancy Services | MAKING EVERY ADULT MATTER | 10 Nov 2026 | £30,000 |
| GMCA 1792.4 GGF Valuations | Knight Frank LLP | 19 Nov 2026 | £54,000 |
| GMCA 1792.5 GGF Valuations | Jones Lang LaSalle Ltd | 19 Nov 2026 | £50,500 |
| GMCA 1792.6 GFF Valuations | SAVILLS (UK) LIMITED | 19 Nov 2026 | £70,000 |
| GMCA 2163 - Creative Industries - GM Creative Consortium - member recruitment | Anderson Quigley Limited | 20 Nov 2026 | £27,500 |
| Conference Facilities | DELTA CREWE HALL OP CO LIMITED | 29 Nov 2026 | £11,200 |
Soonest 10 of 203 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 528 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 507 of 677 published contracts have an end date; 171 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.