Canterbury: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Canterbury is a district council in the South East. We hold 278 of its award notices, 17 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 Canterbury's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 240 of those 278 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Canterbury, 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 |
|---|---|
| 23 Sep 2026 | Licensing Sub-Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Cabinet Advisory Committee (Housing) |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Cabinet |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Overview Committee |
| 9 Oct 2026 | Whitstable Harbour Board |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Canterbury 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cardo (South) Limited | £50.0m | 2 |
| Swale Heating Limited | £5.8m | 3 |
| JENNER (Contractors) LTD | £2.8m | 1 |
| Walker Construction (UK) Limited | £2.5m | 2 |
| PA Group UK | £2.4m | 3 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Canterbury 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB-Canterbury: TPPL Canterbury City Council HCC Lot 4 - 1 x 3.5t Graffiti Vehicle (28257) | Trafalgar Cleaning Equipment Limited | £71,799 | Not specified |
| Provision of Plastic Wheeled Bins | Craemer Uk Ltd | not stated | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
95% of Canterbury's awarded value went through open competition and 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 95% (£99.6m)
- Other/Unspecified 4% (£4.5m)
- Direct 1% (£1.1m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Canterbury, 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 Jan 2028 | 16 | Heating and Hot Water Systems, servicing, maintenance, inspections and installation wor… | Swale Heating Limited | £5.7m |
| 30 Jun 2027 | 9 | Building Cleaning Services for Civic and Residential buildings | Town & Country Cleaners Ltd | £1.9m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | For the provision of a Programme of Renewals of Kitchens and/or Bathrooms and/or Separa… | PFL Electrical Ltd | £1.5m |
| 30 Nov 2027 | 14 | Electrical Testing, Inspection and Repairs | NRT Group (registered as NRT Building Services Group Ltd.) | £880,242 |
| 31 May 2027 | 8 | Provision of Internal and External Fire Door Replacements and Associated Works | Vpro Infrastructure Solutions Ltd | £400,000 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Canterbury 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 Jun 2026 | App 2 Recruitment & Remuneration Framework - Indep Dirs June 2026 | Cabinet |
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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 Canterbury 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 Canterbury. 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 Canterbury's own published papers, at https://democracy.canterbury.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 Canterbury'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.