Epping Forest: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Epping Forest is a district council in the East of England. We hold 206 of its award notices, and 13 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 Epping Forest's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 191 of those 206 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Epping Forest, 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 | Planning Committee B |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Communities Scrutiny Committee |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Constitution Working Group |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Licensing Sub Committee |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Licensing Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Epping Forest 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pellikaan Construction Ltd | £26.0m | 2 |
| Specialist Fleet Services | £16.8m | 2 |
| Gracelands Complete Maintenance Services Limited | £6.6m | 12 |
| Mulalley and Company Limited | £4.8m | 1 |
| Civica UK Ltd | £3.8m | 5 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Epping Forest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provision of Liquid Fuels | Rix Petroleum (Hull) Ltd | £650,000 | Framework call-off |
| Works and Maintenance of Watercourse and Related Assets | Hugh Pearl (Land Drainage) Limited | £315,000 | Open |
| Provision of Various Consultancy Services for the Energy Efficiency Retrofit Programme Wave 3 | Ridge and Partners LLP | £294,850 | Framework call-off |
| Granicus Forms Cloud-Based Platform for Communications, Citizen Engagement, Digital Services an… | Granicus-Firmstep Limited | £272,310 | Framework call-off |
| Software Focused Solution Providing a Platform and Support for the (GIS) Mapping System | Esri (UK) Limited | £109,697 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
76% of Epping Forest's awarded value went through open competition and 3% 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 76% (£77.0m)
- Framework/DPS 20% (£20.8m)
- Direct 3% (£3.1m)
- Other/Unspecified 1% (£679,098)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Epping Forest, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jun 2027 | 9 | Insurance Services4 award notices, shown once | framework, 4 suppliers | £4.9m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Provision of Postal Services and Solutions | Psl Print Management Ltd | £800,000 |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Provision of Liquid Fuels | Rix Petroleum (Hull) Ltd | £650,000 |
| 30 May 2027 | 8 | Appointment of a Supplier for the provision and implementation of a new core Financial… | Advanced Business Software and Solutions Limited | £389,124 |
| 30 Mar 2027 | 6 | Provision of a HR and Payroll Software Solution | Softcat PLC | £188,200 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Epping Forest 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. Epping Forest published 204 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 Epping Forest 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 Epping Forest. 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 Epping Forest's own published papers, at https://eppingforest.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 Epping Forest'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.