Hastings: who supplies it, and how much it awards without a contest.
Hastings is a district council in the South East. We hold 70 of its award notices, and 8 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 Hastings's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 59 of those 70 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Hastings, 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 | Charity Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Full Council |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Town Deal |
| 16 Oct 2026 | Hastings Neighbourhood Board |
| 21 Oct 2026 | Planning Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Hastings 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 |
|---|---|---|
| West Marina St Leonards Limited | £35.0m | 2 |
| Booker & Best Ltd | £4.2m | 2 |
| Southdown Housing Association Limited | £2.8m | 2 |
| Wetton Cleaning Services Limited | £1.7m | 2 |
| Protector Insurance | £1.7m | 4 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Hastings 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESPH CS HBC and WDC Removals and Storage (ESPH647 JB) - AWARD | JMJ Storage Solutions T/A easyStorage | £1.1m | Open |
| ESPH674 HBC Tender for Insurance coverage and associated services. Lot 1 - Property | Protector Insurance | £601,638 | Framework call-off |
| ESPH674 HBC Tender for Insurance coverage and associated services. Lot 2 | Protector Insurance | £410,317 | Framework call-off |
| ESPH674 HBC Tender for Insurance coverage and associated services. Lot 3 | Protector Insurance | £359,829 | Framework call-off |
| ESPH674 HBC Tender for Insurance coverage and associated services. Lot 4 - Motor Fleet | Protector Insurance | £282,420 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
24% of Hastings's awarded value went through open competition and 61% 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.
- Direct 61% (£35.1m)
- Competed 24% (£13.8m)
- Framework/DPS 12% (£7.0m)
- Other/Unspecified 3% (£2.0m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Hastings, 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 | ESPH AB HBC Minor Works Contract (ESPH 474 JB) - AWARD | Booker and Best Ltd | £4.2m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | HBC Electricity Supply Agreement | Opus Energy Limited | £1.2m |
| 31 Oct 2027 | 13 | HBC Merchant Card Services | Cardnet Merchant Services Limited | £500,000 |
| 31 Aug 2027 | 11 | ESPH629 HBC Cashless Parking | Ringgo Limited | £180,000 |
| 31 Oct 2026 | 1 | Modern Polling Provision and iPad Hire | Modern Democracy Limited | £66,800 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Hastings 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. Hastings published 90 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 Hastings 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 Hastings. 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 Hastings's own published papers, at https://hastings.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 Hastings'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.