Greater Manchester Combined Authority

What they have awarded, by year

Our award history is not continuous. We hold notices published January 2021 to July 2022, and September 2022 to November 2022, and July 2023 to August 2026, and nothing published between December 2022 and June 2023 — a gap of 7 months. Any period overlapping that gap is understated here, and the change between periods is not a market trend.

• 2024£649,062,719 · 155
• 2025£277,104,322 · 258
• 2026£39,570,705 · 157

Years with no bar are years we hold no award notices for this buyer — which may mean they bought nothing, or that we do not have that period. We do not fill gaps in.

What they buy

• Business services129 contracts
• IT services82 contracts
• CPV 7381 contracts
• Education57 contracts
• Architecture & engineering51 contracts
• Software48 contracts
• Construction37 contracts
• Community services29 contracts
• Health & social27 contracts
• Vehicles21 contracts

Who wins their work

• Constellia Public Limited12 awards
• Marketing Manchester9 awards
• Deloitte LLP9 awards
• Constellia Public Ltd9 awards
• The Growth Company7 awards
• Virgin Media Business Limited6 awards
• KPMG LLP6 awards
• Parr Group6 awards
• M Group5 awards
• Robertson Construction Group Ltd5 awards

How contested their contracts are

Of the awards that report it, the average was 16.9 bidders, and 27 were awarded to a single bidder — 53% of that sample.

Based on the 51 of 636 awards that publish a bidder count — buyers are not required to, and most do not.

How often they buy

Across the period we hold, Greater Manchester Combined Authority has awarded a contract roughly every 0.1 months on average.

That is an average across all their categories, not a schedule — and it is not a prediction of when any particular contract comes up. UK award notices almost never publish a contract end date, so nobody can build a reliable expiry calendar from open data. Why that is, and what works instead.