Essex County Council: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Essex County Council is a county council in the East of England. We hold 1,393 of its award notices, 54 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 3 committee papers 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 Essex County Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 740 of those 1,393 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Essex 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 | Audit, Governance and Standards Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Essex Health and Wellbeing Board |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Development and Regulation Committee |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Essex Pension Fund Advisory Board |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Essex Pension Fund Strategy Board (PSB) |
Source: Essex County Council's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medequip Assistive Technology Limited | £140m | 2 |
| Sovereign Group Limited | £47.4m | 3 |
| Allstar Business Solutions Ltd | £36.0m | 1 |
| Clear Channel UK Ltd | £30.0m | 2 |
| Waste-A-Way Recycling Limited | £27.3m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolsey Park SEND | Kier Construction Limited | £21.5m | Framework call-off |
| Harlowbury Primary School | Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure Ltd | £12.8m | Framework call-off |
| C005PC St Botolph's Circus | Jackson Civil Engineering Limited | £7.2m | Other |
| Glenwood Post16 Expansion | Morgan Sindall Construction | £6.7m | Framework call-off |
| C006PC - LCWIP 4 CR East Hill Colchester | Octavius Infrastructure Limited | £4.3m | Other |
How the money is awarded
79% of Essex County Council'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 79% (£690m)
- Framework/DPS 13% (£115m)
- Other/Unspecified 7% (£65.7m)
- Direct 1% (£5.1m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Jan 2027 | 3 | Complex Residential Framework23 award notices, shown once | framework, 23 suppliers | £161m |
| 28 Feb 2027 | 5 | 1042 ECC Fuel Cards and Associated Services | Allstar Business Solutions Ltd | £36.0m |
| 11 Sep 2027 | 11 | 1022 - Additional Reablement Capacity and Home-to-Assess Care Services 20244 award notices, shown once | framework, 4 suppliers | £15.2m |
| 14 May 2027 | 7 | Harlowbury Primary School | Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure Ltd | £12.8m |
| 31 Dec 2026 | 3 | Provision of Microsoft Volume Licensing Agreement & Unified Support | Phoenix Software Limited | £12.6m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Essex County Council 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sep 2026 | Adoption of All-Ages Carers Strategy 2026 and Procurement of single lead provider for Unpaid Ca…It is proposed that the decision to award the contracts following the procurement exercise will be delegated to the Executive Director, Adult Social Care. | Cabinet |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Regional Independent Fostering Agencies Framework (FP/111/05/26)This report seeks approval to act as Lead Authority for the Commission East Partnership to procure this new Framework. | Cabinet |
| 16 Sep 2026 | ECIA861397540 - Eastern Region Independent Fostering Agency FrameworkThis is because the changes relate to the procurement of Independent Fostering Agency placements and do not specifically alter the support, services or opportunities available to these groups. | 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 Essex 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 Essex. 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 Essex County Council's own published papers, at https://cmis.essex.gov.uk/essexcmis5. 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 Essex'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.