Exeter City Council: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Exeter City Council is a district council in the South West. We hold 141 of its award notices, 14 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 2 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 Exeter City Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 129 of those 141 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Exeter City 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 |
|---|---|
| 23 Sep 2026 | Licensing Sub-Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Licensing Sub-Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Customer Focus Scrutiny Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Executive |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Exeter Harbour Board |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Exeter City 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Low Carbon Exchange Ltd | £16.0m | 1 |
| Classic Builders Limited | £10.3m | 1 |
| CLC Contractors Ltd | £10.1m | 3 |
| Comensura | £3.4m | 1 |
| Absolute Solar and Wind | £3.1m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Exeter City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PR032025 - Whole House Retrofit Works | Low Carbon Exchange Ltd | £16.0m | Restricted |
| Corporate Cleaning Services for Council Buildings2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £2.1m | Restricted |
| PR062025 - Fire Compartmentation & Fire Door Works | Bell Group Limited | £1.5m | Restricted |
| PR432023 Arboriculture Services (Lot 1 - Maintenance, Lot 2 Surveys & Inspection) | Devon Tree Services Limited | £1.4m | Open |
| Award Notice Only. External Audit Services | Grant Thornton | £840,210 | Other |
How the money is awarded
60% of Exeter City Council's awarded value went through open competition and 20% was awarded directly. A further 20% 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.
- Competed 60% (£48.7m)
- Other/Unspecified 20% (£16.2m)
- Direct 20% (£15.8m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Exeter City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Apr 2027 | 7 | PR442022 Asbestos Removals for housing | Envirocall Limited | £1.8m |
| 31 Oct 2027 | 13 | PR062025 - Fire Compartmentation & Fire Door Works | Bell Group Limited | £1.5m |
| 17 Sep 2027 | 12 | PR282023 Enforcement Agency Services2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £569,244 |
| 25 Jul 2027 | 10 | PR462024 - Asbestos Surveys, Auditing, Re- inspections, Sampling and analytical services | G & L Consultancy Ltd | £456,106 |
| 21 Feb 2027 | 5 | Fire Risk Assessments for Housing Compliance | Pennington Choices Ltd | £280,000 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Exeter City 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Jul 2026 | 10. Quarterly Waivers Report Q4 & Q1 July 2026…under £100k ex VAT, a Head of Service or SMB member must approve a Waiver to the Procedures and provide a copy of the written approval (Waiver Application Form) to the procurement team to be added to the Waivers Register. | Audit and Governance Committee |
| 16 Jun 2026 | CIL and S106 Governance Framework ReportThis report is about agreeing the approach, principles and process rather than approving any allocations to individual projects; any future allocation decisions will be brought forward separately through the appropriate decision-making route within that agreed framework. | Council |
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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 Exeter City 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 Exeter. 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 Exeter City Council's own published papers, at https://committees.exeter.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 Exeter'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.