East Sussex County Council: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
East Sussex County Council is a county council in the South East. We hold 1,104 of its award notices, and 63 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 East Sussex County Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 841 of those 1,104 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at East Sussex County Council, 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 | People Scrutiny Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Place Scrutiny Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | SBSA - Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Audit Committee |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Discretionary Transport Appeal Panel |
Source: East Sussex County Council's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every East Sussex County Council 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Yellow Line Parking Limited | £133m | 1 |
| Care at Home Services South East Limited | £44.0m | 6 |
| Change, Grow, Live Services Limited | £39.6m | 3 |
| East Kent Road Car Company, Limited | £39.3m | 54 |
| Southdown Housing Association Limited | £35.2m | 5 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards East Sussex County Council 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taxi and MPV (1-8 seats) Passenger Assistant - Taxi and MPV (1-8 seats) Passenger Assistant122 award notices, shown once | framework, 22 suppliers | £27.2m | Restricted |
| NEC 4 ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT (OPTION C) IN RELATION TO THE EXCEAT BRIDGE REPLACE… | Jackson Civil Engineering Group Limited | £10.8m | Framework call-off |
| Digital Demand Responsive Transport Service - Flexibus | East Surrey Rural Transport Partnership | £4.8m | DPS call-off |
| Taxi and MPV (1-8 seats) - Taxi and MPV (1-8 seats)42 award notices, shown once | framework, 20 suppliers | £3.1m | Restricted |
| B361066A Bus Service 1066: Hastings - Battle - Robertsbridge - Flimwell - Hawkhurst - Wadhurst… | East Kent Road Car Company Limited | £2.9m | DPS call-off |
How the money is awarded
37% of East Sussex County Council's awarded value went through open competition and 4% 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.
- Framework/DPS 54% (£385m)
- Competed 37% (£263m)
- Other/Unspecified 6% (£42.2m)
- Direct 4% (£29.5m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for East Sussex County Council, 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 | ESCC - SS - East Sussex Mental Health Support Service | Southdown Housing Association Limited | £24.1m |
| 31 Jan 2028 | 16 | Award of The Provision of Residential Care, and Care and support to people with Learnin… | Affinity Trust | £21.6m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | ESCC JS - End User Device Supply and Associated Services | Dell Corporation Ltd | £21.0m |
| 18 Nov 2027 | 14 | Supply of Electricity (HH and NHH) | Edf Energy (UK) Limited | £16.6m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Award of East Sussex Sexual Health Services contract | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust | £12.5m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers East Sussex County Council 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. East Sussex County Council published 266 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 East Sussex County Council 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 East Sussex. 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 East Sussex County Council's own published papers, at https://democracy.eastsussex.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 East Sussex'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.