Bradford: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Bradford is a metropolitan borough in Yorkshire and the Humber. We hold 2,131 of its award notices, 74 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 1 committee paper 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 Bradford's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 1,356 of those 2,131 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Bradford, 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 |
|---|---|
| 22 Sep 2026 | Bradford District Appeals Panel |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Regeneration and Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Bradford West Area Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Children's Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Governance and Audit Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Bradford 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oliver Wyman Ltd | £182m | 1 |
| Locala Community Partnership CiC | £45.7m | 4 |
| Humankind Charity | £35.9m | 4 |
| Muse Developments Limited | £35.0m | 2 |
| Bradford Energy Limited | £35.0m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Bradford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appointment of Strategic Advisors | Oliver Wyman Ltd | £182m | Other |
| Microsoft M365 E3 Enterprise Licensing Agreement | SoftwareOne UK Limited | £5.9m | Restricted |
| Wheeled refuse bins and food collection containers3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £4.3m | Other |
| External Legal Services | Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP | £2.0m | Framework call-off |
| Adult and Childrens Social Care Case Management System | Liquidlogic Ltd | £1.9m | Other |
How the money is awarded
58% of Bradford's awarded value went through open competition and 6% was awarded directly. A further 30% 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 58% (£633m)
- Other/Unspecified 30% (£329m)
- Direct 6% (£65.5m)
- Framework/DPS 6% (£64.7m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Bradford, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Nov 2027 | 14 | Appointment of Strategic Advisors | Oliver Wyman Ltd | £182m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Bierley Crematorium - Main Contractor | Robertson Construction Limited | £10.8m |
| 31 Oct 2026 | 1 | End User Computing | Bechtle Direct Ltd | £10.0m |
| 5 Feb 2027 | 4 | Residential Respite Service for Adults with a Learning Disability | St Anne's Community Services | £9.0m |
| 31 Jul 2027 | 10 | Managed Migration Resettlement Services | Horton Housing | £8.7m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Bradford 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Jul 2026 | Doc F- Cohesion FrameworkThe Cohesion Framework will be applied and supported through the locality framework. | Corporate 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
Covering the same ground
Where Bradford 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 Bradford. 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 Bradford's own published papers, at https://bradford.moderngov.co.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 Bradford'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.