Bedford: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Bedford is a unitary authority in the East of England. We hold 541 of its award notices, 55 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 3 committee papers from the last 120 days that talk about buying. Everything here comes from public records: award notices the council itself published, and the papers it publishes before each committee meeting.
Data updated: 20 September 2026 (committee papers) | 18 September 2026 (award notices)
GovLeads reads Bedford's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 312 of those 541 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Bedford, taken from the council's own calendar. Papers usually appear five clear working days beforehand, and we read them the night they land.
| Date | Committee |
|---|---|
| 21 Sep 2026 | Children's Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | General Purposes Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Trustees of the House of Industry Estate Management Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Health and Wellbeing Board |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Housing Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Bedford award notice we hold. Values on multi-supplier frameworks are shared across the suppliers named on them, so a place on a large framework does not inflate a single firm.
| Supplier | Awarded value | Awards |
|---|---|---|
| Connected Kerb Limited | £56.6m | 2 |
| Breheny Civil Engineering Ltd | £42.0m | 2 |
| Npower Ltd | £36.0m | 1 |
| Corona Energy Retail 4 Ltd | £12.0m | 1 |
| Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust | £11.9m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Bedford has notified in the last year. Awards sharing a title and end date are collapsed into a single row, so a framework or dynamic purchasing system appears once rather than once per supplier.
| Award | Supplier | Value | Route |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Supply of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure and Associated Services 2026-2041 | Connected Kerb Ltd | £56.6m | Award procedure with prior publication of a call for competition |
| Adults Services Improvement Programme | Newton Consulting Limited | £5.4m | Framework call-off |
| HR and Payroll System | Zellis UK Ltd | £1.2m | Framework call-off |
| Highways Operatives Training Brokerage Service - AWARD | Paramount Training Limited | £459,050 | Open |
| DR2000 Drainage Surveys - AWARD | Lucion Services Limited | £111,725 | Open |
How the money is awarded
40% of Bedford's awarded value went through open competition and 4% was awarded directly. A further 24% sits on notices that do not state a route at all. Directly awarded work is the part of the market that never reaches a competitive notice, so it is the part you have to see coming upstream.
- Competed 40% (£99.6m)
- Framework/DPS 32% (£80.7m)
- Other/Unspecified 24% (£61.1m)
- Direct 4% (£10.5m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Bedford, of those with an end date inside 18 months. A re-procurement decision normally reaches a committee months before the contract itself runs out, which is the point at which scope is still moveable, so the months-left column matters as much as the value.
| Ends | Months left | Contract | Supplier | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Supply of Electricity | Npower Ltd | £36.0m |
| 1 Aug 2027 | 10 | Adults Services Improvement Programme | Newton Consulting Limited | £5.4m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | Minor Highways Maintenance Works 2024-2029 - AWARD | DJT Surfacing Ltd | £3.9m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Provision of Public Space Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) Surveillance Monitoring and… | Broadland Guarding Services Ltd | £2.0m |
| 30 Jun 2027 | 9 | Enterprise Agreement 3 year - M365 and additional products (Fwk DA - NOE CPC) | Bytes Software Services Limited | £1.4m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Bedford published in the last four months whose title uses the language of buying: a tender, an award, an extension, a gateway report, a waiver, or a procurement strategy, policy or performance report. It is a title match, so the odd paper lands here on a word rather than a decision.
| Meeting | Paper | Committee |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Jul 2026 | Item 08 Procurement Initiatives and Improvement PlanCommunicate Social Value training, finalise library of tender questions and continue to develop this for use in SCP and communicate to service leads for below £100k tenders/quotes. | Budget and Corporate Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Item 7 - Commissioning PlacementsSubject to a successful procurement, Bedford will have access to two local beds including education from August 2027, helping more children remain closer to their families, schools and communities. | Children's Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
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Nearby councils
Suppliers rarely sell to one council alone. These are the authorities next door, and the ones covering the same ground at a different tier.
Councils it borders
Where Bedford spends most
The service areas taking the largest share of awarded value here. Each one has its own page explaining what we watch for.
Where this comes from
Awards, suppliers and expiry dates come from award notices published to Contracts Finder and Find a Tender by Bedford. The award data set was last refreshed on 18 September 2026, so notices published since then are not yet counted here. Values are as notified; where a notice names several suppliers, the value is shared across them.
Committee papers and meeting dates come from Bedford's own published papers, at https://councillorsupport.bedford.gov.uk. Every paper linked above is on the council's own site. Committee-paper figures were extracted on 20 September 2026.
What we leave out. A notice naming more than one buying authority is excluded, because it does not say how the value splits between them. So are notices from bodies that share this council's name but are separate organisations, such as the local college or NHS trust. Both would otherwise be counted here as Bedford's.
Nothing on this page is modelled, estimated or inferred. Every number is a count or a sum over those two public sources. Where a figure would be a guess, it is left out.