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.
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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 43 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.
411 awarded tenders, 664 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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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.
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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
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship and Associated Learning Programmes | 2 Oct 2026 | 2d | £22,700,000 |
| Greater Manchester Bus Franchising | Not published | No deadline | — |
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, internet27 procedures · 7%85 Health and social work services21 procedures · 5%80 Education and training services18 procedures · 4% · 1 open79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting18 procedures · 4%98 Other community, social and personal services15 procedures · 4%73 Research and development services13 procedures · 3%48 Software package and information systems12 procedures · 3%45 Construction work7 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.
- Contract 96% (386 notices)
- Framework 4% (15 notices)
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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 award 51% (206 notices)
- Limited / restricted 16% (64 notices)
- Route not published 16% (63 notices)
- Open 12% (49 notices)
- Selective 5% (19 notices)
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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 43 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 deadline to first award notice, 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 404 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 23 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 | 3.6% | 5 | 19 | 4 Sept 2025 |
| Marketing Manchester | 6 | 1.5% | 5 | 6 | 7 Jul 2026 |
| Metro Dynamics Limited | 5 | 1.2% | 5 | 5 | 17 Sept 2026 |
| Bluestar Software Limited | 4 | 1% | 4 | 4 | 19 Feb 2026 |
| Bright Direction Training Limited | 4 | 1% | 0 | 4 | 23 Aug 2024 |
| ACORN TRAINING LTD | 4 | 1% | 0 | 4 | 1 Feb 2024 |
| Realise Learning and Employment Limited | 4 | 1% | 0 | 4 | 14 Jun 2024 |
| Back 2 Work Complete Training | 4 | 1% | 0 | 4 | 23 Aug 2024 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 6% of 411 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 664 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 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.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
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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| Complex Care Mental Health Support Homes | Barnardo's | — | — | £30,204,680 † |
| Residential Homes supporting older teenagers, children / young people at risk of sexual exploitation (CSE), children / young people at risk of criminal exploitation (CCE) | Social Care Services Ltd | — | — | £23,941,240 † |
| Utilities - Gas and Electric | EDF | — | — | £19,200,000 † |
| Residential Homes supporting younger children with a view to transitioning them back to foster care | Social Care Services Ltd | — | — | £13,590,930 † |
| Greater Manchester Housing First and Rough Sleepers Accommodation Programme | Great Places Housing Association (GPHA) | — | — | £12,803,605 † |
Contracts endingi
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.
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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 · 323 of 663 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
Soonest 10 of 135 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 510 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
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 (£604m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 404 award records on 334 procedures (360 to a single canonical supplier, 44 multi-supplier). 218 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 10 awards published only a VAT-inclusive amount and are counted but not valued.
- 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: 323 of 663 published contracts carry a period end; 135 end within 18 months, 34 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (20 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
Canonical page id: GB-PPON-PXBN-3793-LCTQ