Cumberland Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITYONS register: Local-authority-districtLocal authorityNorth West EnglandCarlisleRan 1 procurement for other authorities

Official UK PPONPJGX-9191-DYLV

Open now5next deadline 5 Oct 2026
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Tenders you can still bid for.

Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.

Notices, last 12 months139+153% vs prior 12 months (55)
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Notices published in the last 12 months.

Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.

Typical bids per lot317.2% single-bid · 64 bid reports
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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 64 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

Top-3 supplier share24%of 1,085 awarded procedures · 553 suppliers
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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.

1,085 awarded tenders, 553 different suppliers.

Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.

All awards we hold.

Contracts ending ≤18 months6519 within 6 months
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published award value, 24m£161mnet · on 119 of 350 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 70%
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

Open notices

5 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

What they buy
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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

How they buy
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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 · 194 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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How work here is packaged.

Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.

  • Contract 78% (152 notices)
  • Framework 20% (38 notices)
  • Dynamic purchasing system 2% (4 notices)
Procedure route
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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.

  • Open 54% (105 notices)
  • Route not published 24% (46 notices)
  • Limited / restricted 11% (21 notices)
  • Direct award 6% (11 notices)
  • Selective 6% (11 notices)
Typical bids per lot
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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 64 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Last 24 months, all categories.

3robust · n=6417.2% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.

Based on 49 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

35 daysrobust · n=49
Notice amendments
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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 194 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

Last 24 months.

1102 of 194 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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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 40 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

A past pattern, not a price to bid.

Last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=40

Who wins here
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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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Eagles Wing Healthcare Solutions ltd1019.3%010112 Mar 2024
Bellcare Domiciliary Care Services Limitedframework/DPS on 1847.7%18414 Oct 2025
Cumbria View Care Services Ltd807.4%08021 Feb 2024
Eden View Care Services & Response Ltd (VNP58)framework/DPS on 1645.9%16414 Oct 2025
Cera Care Operations Limitedframework/DPS on 2635.8%26314 Oct 2025
Brown Glass Healthcare Services605.5%06022 May 2024
Nasya Health Limitedframework/DPS on 1403.7%14014 Oct 2025
BLUE OCEAN SERVICES LTDframework/DPS on 1373.4%13714 Oct 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 24% of 1,085 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 553 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.

Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.

Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.

£161mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 119 of 350 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 70%.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

Last 24 months.

£205k middle valuerobust · n=119Middle half £74k–£545k; 7 duplicate amounts excluded from both figures (heuristic for republished framework ceilings).
Largest published awards
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The 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.

SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Cumbria Substance Use: Treatment ServiceWaythrough30 Apr 20266 yrs · up to 10 yrs£56,000,000
≈ £9.3m/yr
0-19 Health Child Programme (Public Health Nursing)Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust——£39,000,000 †
Cumbria Connect to Work (CtW) ProgrammeInspira 0121 Oct 20252.4 yrs · up to 4.4 yrs£9,883,966
≈ £4.1m/yr
Cleator Moor Community Hub and Town Square Public Realm WorksStory Contracting Limited—1 yrs£4,180,756 †
≈ £4.2m/yr
The Collection and Disposal of Food WasteCumbria Waste Recycling Ltd19 Mar 20263 yrs · up to 5 yrs£4,166,666
≈ £1.4m/yr

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 183 of 1,333 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast

Soonest 10 of 65 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 1,135 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programmeHealth and social work servicesPlanning25 Sept 2026—
For the Provision of Travel and Accommodation Booking ServiceFrameworkBusiness travel servicesAwarded / complete24 Sept 2026£232,000
Call-Off Contract for Core+ Youth Integrated CCIS SystemAwarded / complete23 Sept 2026—
Station Hill, Wigton - Conversion to create new Children's Residential Care HomAwarded / complete18 Sept 2026—
Supported Living Care and SupportSocial work services with accommodationPlanned18 Sept 2026—
C76 Durranhill Viaduct C1045 - Remedial Works (Phase 2)Awarded / complete10 Sept 2026—
Equipment Delivery ServiceAwarded / complete10 Sept 2026—
Kiwi-NCM-VM320-NPM-SAM RenewalAwarded / complete4 Sept 2026—
Carers Support Service3 lotsHealth and social work servicesAwarded / complete3 Sept 2026£4,337,000
Cumbria Accelerator Business Support Contract 26/27: Provision of Business Support DiagnosticsAwarded / complete2 Sept 2026—
Cumbria Accelerator Business Support Contract 26/27: Provision of Business Support Account Management ServicesAwarded / complete2 Sept 2026—
Direct Payment Support ServiceSocial work and related servicesPlanning27 Aug 2026—
Targeted Careers Information, Advice and Guidance (TCIAG)Education and training servicesAwarded / complete26 Aug 2026£2,500,000
Full Design Services, RIBA stages 4 - 6, former Red Lion site, EgremontArchitecturalAwarded / complete25 Aug 2026£340,000
Supply & Distribution of Various FoodsFramework4 lotsFoodAwarded / complete25 Aug 2026£4,500,000
Transitional Accommodation Service (TAS)Awarded / complete21 Aug 2026—
Minor Adaptations for People with DisabiliitesBuilding installation workAwarded / complete20 Aug 2026£768,000
Equipment Delivery ServiceAwarded / complete20 Aug 2026—
Hearing ServiceDPSHealth servicesAwarded / complete19 Aug 2026£141,791
Cumberland Microenterprises ServiceDPSHealth servicesAwarded / complete19 Aug 2026£252,500

Search all 1,135 procedures for this authority →

Data coverage & method
  • Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
  • Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
  • Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£382m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
  • Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 382 award records on 150 procedures (350 to a single canonical supplier, 31 multi-supplier, 1 with no supplier published). 76 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
  • Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
  • Contract end dates: 183 of 1,333 published contracts carry a period end; 65 end within 18 months, 19 within 6.
  • Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (7 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-FTS-115033GB-FTS-163379GB-FTS-79110GB-FTS-80139GB-FTS-85722GB-FTS-92864GB-FTS-95774

Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PJGX-9191-DYLV