West of England Combined Authority: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Combined-authority·Local authority·South West England·Bristol
Official UK PPONPGWR-9284-XMRY
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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.
54 awarded tenders, 62 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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| WESTCharge - Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure | 30 Mar 2027 | 155d | £167,500,000 |
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
60 Transport services (except waste transport)15 procedures · 21%45 Construction work7 procedures · 10% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering7 procedures · 10%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting7 procedures · 10%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet5 procedures · 7%31 Electrical machinery4 procedures · 6% · 1 open80 Education and training services4 procedures · 6%34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 4% · 1 openHow 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 · 72 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.
Contract92%(66 notices)
66 of 72 notices are Contract (92%).Framework7%(5 notices)
5 of 72 notices are Framework (7%).Dynamic purchasing system1%(1 notices)
1 of 72 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (1%).
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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.
Open24%(17 notices)
17 of 72 notices are Open (24%).Limited / restricted21%(15 notices)
15 of 72 notices are Limited / restricted (21%).Route not published21%(15 notices)
15 of 72 notices are Route not published (21%).Direct award19%(14 notices)
14 of 72 notices are Direct award (19%).Selective15%(11 notices)
11 of 72 notices are Selective (15%).
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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 4 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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 4 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 72 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 3 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| First West of England Ltd | 9 | 16.7% | 8 | 9 | 2 Jul 2026 |
| Ramboll UK Limited | 3 | 5.6% | 2 | 3 | — |
| CT Coaches | 3 | 5.6% | 0 | 3 | — |
| E.ON Energy Solutions | 3 | 5.6% | 0 | 3 | — |
| GC Insight Ltd | 2 | 3.7% | 2 | 2 | 29 Aug 2025 |
| Happy Energy Solutions Ltd | 2 | 3.7% | 0 | 2 | — |
| ABUS LTD | 2 | 3.7% | 0 | 2 | — |
| Stagecoach West T/A Cheltenham & Gloucester Omnibus Company Ltd | 2 | 3.7% | 0 | 2 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 26% of 54 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 62 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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| UPN-00111 - Made Smarter | NCC | — | 1 yrs | £2,947,023 † ≈ £2.9m/yr |
| Bus Grant Enhanced Services - 2026-29 | First West of England Ltd | 2 Jul 2026 | 2.7 yrs | £842,972 ≈ £316k/yr |
| Bus Grant Fares and Ticketing – Kids Go Free - First Bus | First West of England Ltd | 2 Jul 2025 | 2 mo | £734,037 |
| MetroWest Firmware Upgrade | Network Rail Infrastructure | 30 Jul 2026 | 8 mo | £676,665 |
| Bus Grant Fares and Ticketing - Fare Cap 2026 - First Bus | First West of England Ltd | 25 Mar 2026 | 5 mo | £657,458 |
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.
60 of 67 contracts carry an end date, 39 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 15 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 107 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| SDS - Critical Friend | Awarded / complete | 7 Oct 2026 | — |
| Full Business Case for Digital Office | Awarded / complete | 29 Sept 2026 | — |
| UPN-00417 - Residential Solar Collective Buying SchemeBatteries | Planned | 25 Sept 2026 | £90,000 |
| MetroWest Firmware Upgrade | Awarded / complete | 8 Sept 2026 | — |
| Mass Transit FrameworkTransport services (excl. Waste transport) | Planning | 4 Sept 2026 | — |
| Mass Transit FrameworkCivil engineering consultancy services | Planning | 2 Sept 2026 | — |
| Supply of Traffic Sensors | Awarded / complete | 27 Aug 2026 | — |
| South West Net Zero Hub - Aggregated Renewable Energy Feasibility StudiesEnergy and related services | Planning | 26 Aug 2026 | £600,000 |
| Integrated Micromobility Services 2027Non-scheduled passenger transport | Open | 25 Aug 2026 | £90,000,000 |
| UPN-00618 - Future Places FundFinancial consultancy services | Open | 20 Aug 2026 | £1,000,000 |
| Recruitment Neutral/Master VendorRecruitment services | Planned | 12 Aug 2026 | — |
| Strategic Vision Plan - North Somerset Growth Zone | Awarded / complete | 12 Aug 2026 | — |
| WIA - Comms Support (Phase One) | Awarded / complete | 12 Aug 2026 | — |
| Monitoring and Evaluation Improvement Work | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | — |
| Bus Grant - Enhancement of Bus Services 20206-29Hire of passenger transport vehicles with driver | Awarded / complete | 13 Jul 2026 | — |
| Public Relation/Communication Support - Key ProjectsPublic relations services | Open | 10 Jul 2026 | £1,500,000 |
| Underground Assets Data Transformation & CommercialisationCommunications infrastructure | Awarded / complete | 9 Jul 2026 | £150,000 |
| UPN-00523 - Accommodation Review | Awarded / complete | 8 Jul 2026 | — |
| Estates Management Partner 2 | Awarded / complete | 8 Jul 2026 | — |
| Real Time Information - Bus Journeys 2027Real-time passenger information system | Open | 3 Jul 2026 | £10,000,000 |
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. 60 of 67 published contracts have an end date; 39 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.