Cambridge City: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Cambridge City is a district council in the East of England. We hold 148 of its award notices, and 12 contracts due to end within 18 months. 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 Cambridge City's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 89 of those 148 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Cambridge City, 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 | Services, Climate and Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Cabinet |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Planning |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Hackney Carriage/Private Hire Vehicle Sub Committee (Licensing Sub Committee) |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Development Control Forum |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Cambridge City 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 |
|---|---|---|
| TSG Building Services plc | £37.7m | 6 |
| PHS Home Solutions Limited | £5.0m | 2 |
| Cornerstone East Anglia Limited | £5.0m | 2 |
| Aran Insulation Limited | £5.0m | 2 |
| Bell Group Limited | £5.0m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Cambridge City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| HDC Civic Suite hardware Replacement, (Supply, Fitting and Maintenance) | VP-AV Limited | £206,659 | Restricted |
| Invitation To Tender for Bridge inspection for Parks and Countryside | Stirling Maynard and Partners Limited | £14,250 | Open |
| Revenues and Benefits Software System | NEC Software Solutions UK Limited | not stated | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
Over 99% of Cambridge City's awarded value went through open competition and under 1% was awarded directly. 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 over 99% (£88.3m)
- Direct under 1% (£224,000)
- Other/Unspecified under 1% (£150,000)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Cambridge City, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Nov 2027 | 14 | Cambridge City Council - Planned Maintenance | TSG Building Services plc | £32.0m |
| 1 Dec 2026 | 2 | Cambridge City Council - Action on Energy Cambridgeshire Retrofit Framework6 award notices, shown once | framework, 6 suppliers | £30.0m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Cambridge City Council - Hybrid Mail Services - Call-off from CCS RM6280 Lot 6 | Datagraphic Ltd | £1.0m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Cambridge City Council - Brewery Contract for Corn Exchange and Guildhall | Greene King Brewing and Retailing Limited | £800,000 |
| 15 Dec 2026 | 2 | Cambridge City Council - Power and Lighting Supplier for the Cambridge Folk Festival | Pearce Sound & Lighting LTD T/As Pearce Hire | £666,000 |
7 more Cambridge City contracts expire by 20 March 2028. Start a free trial to see them.
Procurement radar
Committee papers Cambridge City published in the last four months whose title uses the language of buying.
No procurement decision reached a committee here in the last four months. Cambridge City published 120 papers in that window and none of them is titled as a tender, an award, an extension or a waiver.
That is common and it is not a gap in our reading: most councils delegate day-to-day buying to officers, and only the larger decisions reach a committee with a paper to their name. The award notices above are the fuller record of what this council actually buys.
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.
Covering the same ground
Where Cambridge City 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 Cambridge. 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 Cambridge City's own published papers, at https://democracy.cambridge.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 Cambridge'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.