West Midlands Combined Authority: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

ONS register: Combined-authorityLocal authorityWest MidlandsBirmingham

Official UK PPONPGMD-1353-PZVX

Open now3next deadline 1 Dec 2026

Notices, last 12 months182+69% vs prior 12 months (108)

Typical bids per lot321.1% single-bid · median of 19 lots

Based on 19 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Top-3 supplier share16%of 898 awarded procedures · 621 suppliers

898 awarded tenders, 621 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months18681 within 6 months · 34 estimated

Published award value, 24m£206mnet · on 225 of 225 published values · top 5 = 57%

Open notices

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

Notice	Deadline	Days left	Published value
Connect to Work - Walsall, Wolverhampton & Sandwell	1 Dec 2026	16d	£18,931,895
The West Midlands Franchising Scheme for Buses Dynamic MarketDPS	29 Jun 2039	4,609d	£1,500,000,000
Qualifying Utilities Dynamic Market (QUDM) for the provision of Small Franchised Bus Services in the West Midlands - The West Midlands Franchising Scheme for BusesDPS	9 Aug 2039	4,650d	—

What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

71 Architectural, construction, engineering180 procedures · 62%

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting146 procedures · 50%

72 IT services: consulting, software, internet66 procedures · 23%

45 Construction work32 procedures · 11%

60 Transport services (except waste transport)25 procedures · 9% · 2 open

48 Software package and information systems23 procedures · 8%

50 Repair and maintenance services15 procedures · 5%

66 Financial and insurance services15 procedures · 5%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 290 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool

Contract97%(282 notices)
282 of 290 notices are Contract (97%).
Framework2%(5 notices)
5 of 290 notices are Framework (2%).
Dynamic purchasing system1%(3 notices)
3 of 290 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (1%).

Procedure route

Limited / restricted56%(163 notices)
163 of 290 notices are Limited / restricted (56%).
Direct award17%(49 notices)
49 of 290 notices are Direct award (17%).
Route not published15%(43 notices)
43 of 290 notices are Route not published (15%).
Open10%(28 notices)
28 of 290 notices are Open (10%).
Selective2%(7 notices)
7 of 290 notices are Selective (2%).

Typical bids per lot

Based on 19 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

3robust · n=1921.1% of lots drew a single bid

Deadline → award

Based on 16 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

68 daysrobust · n=16

Notice amendments

Based on 290 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

028 of 290 notices amended

Award vs estimate

Based on 12 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=12

Who wins here
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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
Waterman Aspen	58	6.5%	50	58	10 Aug 2026
Matchtech Limited	51	5.7%	51	51	14 Oct 2026
Constellia Public Ltdframework/DPS on 1	35	3.9%	28	35	20 Aug 2026
Mott MacDonaldframework/DPS on 5	30	3.3%	19	34	28 May 2026
Haigh Rail Limitedframework/DPS on 1	24	2.7%	19	24	20 Apr 2025
WSP UK Limitedframework/DPS on 5	23	2.6%	11	26	27 Aug 2026
Atkins Limitedframework/DPS on 4	15	1.7%	9	17	8 Apr 2026
Steer Davies & Gleave Ltdframework/DPS on 3	14	1.6%	10	16	14 Jul 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 16% of 898 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 621 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)

£206mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 225 of 225 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 57%; a further 24 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.

Typical single-supplier award (24m)

£74k middle valuerobust · n=225Middle half £39k–£237k.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
Highway Infrastructure Cleaning	Mitie Cleaning & Environmental Services Ltd	17 Jun 2026	4.8 yrs · up to 9.8 yrs	£34,758,865 ≈ £7.3m/yr
Rail Package 2 Camp Hill Line New Stations	Volkerfitzpatrick Ltd	—	—	£27,000,000 †
OESS (Onboard Energy Storage Systems) Service Agreement	CAF RAIL UK LIMITED	—	—	£26,662,905 †
Media Buying	BBJ&K Ltd	3 Feb 2026	3 yrs · up to 5 yrs	£15,000,000 ≈ £5.0m/yr
Highway Infrastructure Maintenance	Bus Shelters Ltd	22 Apr 2026	4.8 yrs · up to 9.8 yrs	£14,557,305 ≈ £3.1m/yr

Contracts ending
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902 of 1,007 contracts carry an end date, 64 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
Project Planner for Metro	Matchtech Group	18 Nov 2026	£117,600
Sports Quater - Operational Modelling	RIDGE AND PARTNERS LLP	21 Nov 2026	£51,342
INTERFACE MANAGER	Matchtech Group (UK) Limited	30 Nov 2026	£71,500
DOCUMENT CONTROLLER	Matchtech Limited	30 Nov 2026	£46,800
The delivery of a West Midlands private rented sector tenant engagement survey	BMG Research Limited	30 Nov 2026	£36,300
SHELTER DISPLAYS AND CCTV	Journeo Passenger Systems Limited	4 Dec 2026	£71,624
BIM Coordinator Metro	Matchtech Group Limited	8 Dec 2026	£50,400
Additional Rapid Adaptation Pathway Assessments (RAPAs)	CLIMATE SENSE LIMITED	11 Dec 2026	£33,000
Power Connection Costs - Erdington	HIGH VOLTAGE SYSTEMS AND SERVICES LIMITED	16 Dec 2026	£195,857
SITE MANAGER	Matchtech Limited	22 Dec 2026	£64,180

Soonest 10 of 186 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 402 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
Canal Capacity Study and strategy	Awarded / complete	24 Sept 2026	—
Business Continuity Resilience, Response and Recovery	Awarded / complete	11 Sept 2026	—
Purchase of laptops for new starters at WMCA	Awarded / complete	9 Sept 2026	—
West Midlands Combined Authority's Bus Franchising Programme Branding	Awarded / complete	8 Sept 2026	—
The provision of consultancy services for the development of a digital action plan	Awarded / complete	7 Sept 2026	—
Transport Infrastructure Planned & Reactive MaintenanceRepair and maintenance services	Awarded / complete	7 Sept 2026	£5,500,000
Transport Insurances	Awarded / complete	4 Sept 2026	—

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Contracts Finder adds 685 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.

About this data

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. 902 of 1,007 published contracts have an end date; 64 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. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.