Liverpool City Region Combined Authority: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
ONS register: Combined-authority·Local authority·North West England·Liverpool
Official UK PPONPNDZ-8253-CJJM
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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 25 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.
88 awarded tenders, 110 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design, Build and Delivery of Invest Liverpool City Region Real Estate Exhibition Stands | 13 Oct 2026 | 13d | £600,000 |
| Asset Valuations & Associated Services | 19 Oct 2026 | 19d | £10,125,000 |
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
80 Education and training services11 procedures · 10%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting9 procedures · 8% · 2 open72 IT services: consulting, software, internet9 procedures · 8%45 Construction work7 procedures · 6%48 Software package and information systems7 procedures · 6%71 Architectural, construction, engineering6 procedures · 5%34 Transport equipment and products5 procedures · 4%73 Research and development services4 procedures · 4%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 · 112 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 92% (103 notices)
- Framework 7% (8 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 1% (1 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.
- Limited / restricted 32% (36 notices)
- Direct award 25% (28 notices)
- Open 24% (27 notices)
- Route not published 14% (16 notices)
- Selective 4% (5 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 25 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 12 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 112 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 12 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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| Nationwide Data Collection Ltd | 3 | 3.4% | 3 | 3 | 1 Sept 2025 |
| Jacobs UK Ltd | 3 | 3.4% | 3 | 3 | 8 Dec 2025 |
| Mott MacDonald | 3 | 3.4% | 3 | 3 | 19 Nov 2025 |
| AMION Consulting Limited | 3 | 3.4% | 3 | 3 | 17 Dec 2025 |
| Hybrid Technical Services Limited | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 3 | 10 Jun 2026 |
| WSP UK Limited | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | 30 Jul 2026 |
| Mastered Studios | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | 10 Jun 2026 |
| This is Capacity | 2 | 2.3% | 2 | 2 | 18 Sept 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 10% of 88 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 110 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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| Bus Franchising in the Liverpool City Region Tranche 1 Category 1 - St Helens | Ribble Motor Services Limited | — | — | £207,144,966 † |
| Bus Franchising in the Liverpool City Region Tranche 1 Category 1 - St Helens | Go North West (Merseyside) Limited | — | — | £185,327,845 † |
| Lot 1. Double Decker Bus - Diesel | Bamford Bus Company Ltd Trading as Wrightbus | 12 May 2026 | 5 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £41,446,807 ≈ £8.3m/yr |
| Lot 2. Diesel - Double Decker Bus | Alexander-Dennis Ltd | 12 May 2026 | 5 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £36,369,500 ≈ £7.3m/yr |
| Lot 3. Single Decker Bus - Diesel | Alexander-Dennis Ltd | 12 May 2026 | 5 yrs · up to 6 yrs | £14,812,691 ≈ £3.0m/yr |
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 · 62 of 150 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Pipeline Development Support | ACRE DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING LIMITED | 18 Oct 2026 | £40,200 |
| Digital Inclusion Youth Guarantee Trailblazer Programme | ACS Technology Group Ltd | 1 Nov 2026 | £67,410 |
| New Mersey Ferry Bridge Simulator Training | JMU Services Limited | 3 Nov 2026 | £39,450 |
| New Mersey Ferry Bridge Simulator Training (Azimuth propulsion systems) | Liverpool Pilotage Services Limited | 3 Nov 2026 | £35,000 |
| Event Manager for 2026 AI Summit | Cool Breeze Agency | 29 Nov 2026 | £28,000 |
| NetBackup Maintenance and Support Renewal | Logicalis UK Limited | 16 Dec 2026 | £32,839 |
| LCR Urban Land Supply Study | Keppie Massie | 21 Dec 2026 | £80,000 |
| SDS Employment Land Broad Locations Opportunities Advice | Iceni Projects Ltd | 31 Jan 2027 | £49,123 |
| Community Energy Programme England | Regen SW | 28 Feb 2027 | £129,000 |
| Liverpool City Region Transport Model Update | Mott MacDonald | 31 Mar 2027 | £936,930 |
Soonest 10 of 15 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 133 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 (£269m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 99 award records on 76 procedures (99 to a single canonical supplier, 0 multi-supplier). 70 values come from the contract record when the award carried none; 9 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: 62 of 150 published contracts carry a period end; 15 end within 18 months, 9 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (4 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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