Gateshead: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Gateshead is a metropolitan borough in the North East. We hold 340 of its award notices, 18 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 7 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 Gateshead's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 192 of those 340 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Gateshead, 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 | Corporate Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Cabinet |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Appeals Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Housing, Environment and Healthy Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Gateshead 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hales Group Limited | £10.0m | 3 |
| Leamside Estates Limited | £8.3m | 2 |
| Cumbria Waste Management Ltd | £8.0m | 3 |
| J&B Recycling Limited | £8.0m | 3 |
| Dale Care Limited | £7.8m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Gateshead 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB-Gateshead: TPPL Gateshead Council NEPO GM & P Lot 1 - 5 x Mowers (New) (31283) | Thomas Sherriff & Co Ltd | £181,582 | Not specified |
| GB-Gateshead: TPPL Gateshead Council NEPO GM & P Lot 1 - 2 x Agricultural Tractors (New) (27087) | Rickerby Limited | £163,000 | Not specified |
| GB-Gateshead: TPPL Gateshead Council HCC Lot 2 - 2 x 3.5t Ford Transit L3 H3 Welfare Van (30124) | Lookers Group | £103,600 | Not specified |
| GB-Gateshead: TPPL Gateshead Council HCC Lot 4 - 1 x 3.5t Compact Sweeper (30255) | Hako Machines Limited | £95,540 | Not specified |
| GB-Gateshead: TPPL Gateshead Council NEPO GM & P Lot 2 - 3 x 19c Gravemaster with trailers (New… | Scot JCB Ltd | £89,700 | Not specified |
How the money is awarded
73% of Gateshead's awarded value went through open competition and 5% 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 73% (£128m)
- Framework/DPS 15% (£25.6m)
- Other/Unspecified 7% (£12.3m)
- Direct 5% (£9.0m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Gateshead, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Oct 2026 | under 1 | FRAMEWORK FOR DEMOLITIO WORKS AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES AND ASBESTOS MANAGEMENT (NEPO221)25 award notices, shown once | framework, 25 suppliers | £16.0m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Contract for the Provision and Operation of a Material Recovery Facility and Delivery P…2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £15.9m |
| 28 Nov 2027 | 14 | IT006 MICROSOFT ENTERPRISE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT | Phoenix Software Limited | £4.7m |
| 31 Oct 2027 | 13 | CONTRACT FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLES SUBSTANCE MISUSE SERVICE | Change Grow Live Services Ltd | £2.0m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Provision of Healthwatch | Tell Us North CIC | £560,984 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Gateshead 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 Jun 2026 | Procurement and Contracts Report B…22, Jun 23, Dec 23, Jun 24, Jun 25, Dec 25, Jun 26 Procurement of a Developer for Dunston Hill Site TBC TBC Kevin Scarlett Housing, Environment and Healthy Communities Gateshead direct to market - land value unknown Jun 23,… | Cabinet |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Procurement and Contracts Report ACabinet approval is required to invite tenders for contracts, or to award contracts, that exceed £500,000 in value. | Cabinet |
| 22 Jun 2026 | 5i. Performance Management and Improvement Framework 2 | Corporate Resources Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 7 Jul 2026 | 5. Performance Management and Improvement Framework | Care, Health and Wellbeing Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 29 Jun 2026 | Report_Performance Management and Improvement Framework | Housing, Environment and Healthy Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 4 Jun 2026 | Cover Report_Corporate Values & Behaviour FrameworkCabinet is therefore asked to recommend that Full Council approve the Behaviour Framework to ensure the Council’s values are effectively demonstrated in practice and continue to support a high-performing, resident-focused organisation. | Council |
| 4 Jun 2026 | Refresh of the Council’s Corporate Values & Behaviour FrameworkIt is proposed that the refreshed Values and Behaviour Framework be formally launched during Learning at Work Week (LearnFest), commencing 8 June 2026. | 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 Gateshead 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 Gateshead. 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 Gateshead's own published papers, at https://gateshead.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 Gateshead'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.