Doncaster: who supplies it, and how much it awards without a contest.
Doncaster is a metropolitan borough in Yorkshire and the Humber. We hold 1,433 of its award notices, and 126 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 Doncaster's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 1,298 of those 1,433 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Doncaster, 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 | Planning Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Health and Adults Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Panel |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Awards, Grants and Transport (Appeals) Committee |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Cabinet |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Doncaster 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Creative Support | £35.5m | 5 |
| Wates Property Services Limited | £33.6m | 1 |
| H W Martin Waste Limited | £30.6m | 2 |
| Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust | £26.7m | 6 |
| Wilmott Dixon | £25.1m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Doncaster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SLH - External and Internal Repairs and Improvement Works | Equans Regeneration Limited | £20.0m | Direct award |
| Provision of Ambient, Chilled & Frozen Foods | Sysco GB Limited | £7.2m | Other |
| SLH - Voids & Repairs2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £5.2m | Other |
| SLH - Fire Safety Improvement Works - various properties | Openview Security Solutions Ltd | £4.0m | Other |
| SLH - Provision of HIU Upgrade installation to Balby Bridge | Switch2 Energy Solutions | £3.1m | Other |
How the money is awarded
19% of Doncaster's awarded value went through open competition and 31% was awarded directly. A further 50% 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.
- Other/Unspecified 50% (£377m)
- Direct 31% (£231m)
- Competed 19% (£143m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Doncaster, 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 | Electricity Supply -YPO Electricity and Ancillary Services - 1100 | RWE npower | £24.0m |
| 5 Mar 2028 | 17 | Integrated Community Equipment Loan Service (ICELS) | Nottingham Rehab Limited (trading as NRS Healthcare) | £23.5m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Mexborough High Street Public Realm | Taylor Woodrow | £15.0m |
| 25 Oct 2027 | 13 | Thermal Efficiency Works (PAS2035) | Sustainable Building Services (UK) Ltd | £12.0m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Flexible Procurement and Supply of Natural Gas | Corona Energy Retail 4 Ltd | £9.7m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Doncaster 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. Doncaster published 128 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.
Councils it borders
Covering the same ground
Where Doncaster 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 Doncaster. 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 Doncaster's own published papers, at https://doncaster.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 Doncaster'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.