Sunderland City Council

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£76,479,003 · 117
• 2025£261,327,242 · 133
• 2026£18,413,698 · 76

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 services88 contracts
• Health & social59 contracts
• Construction52 contracts
• Software43 contracts
• Education41 contracts
• Architecture & engineering21 contracts
• Vehicles19 contracts
• CPV 7315 contracts
• Office & IT equipment14 contracts
• IT services11 contracts

Who wins their work

• Bloom Procurement Services6 awards
• Softcat Plc5 awards
• Oakes Energy Services Ltd4 awards
• Foundation of Light4 awards
• Phoenix Software Limited4 awards
• LYRECO UK LIMITED3 awards
• Fairhurst Group LLP3 awards
• Compass Community Transport Ltd3 awards
• CIVICA UK LIMITED3 awards
• DIFFERENT NARRATIVE INTEGRATED MARKETING LIMITED3 awards

How contested their contracts are

Of the awards that report it, the average was 14.8 bidders, and 24 were awarded to a single bidder — 56% of that sample.

Based on the 43 of 401 awards that publish a bidder count — buyers are not required to, and most do not.

How often they buy

Across the period we hold, Sunderland City Council has awarded a contract roughly every 0.2 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.