Herefordshire: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Herefordshire is a unitary authority in the West Midlands. We hold 577 of its award notices, 33 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 5 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 Herefordshire's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 409 of those 577 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Herefordshire, 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 | Environment and Sustainability Scrutiny Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Connected Communities Scrutiny Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Cabinet |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Audit and Governance Committee |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Licensing Sub-Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Herefordshire 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 |
|---|---|---|
| M Group Highways Ltd | £118m | 2 |
| NRS Healthcare | £11.6m | 4 |
| Full Fibre Ltd | £5.2m | 8 |
| Speller Metcalfe | £4.6m | 1 |
| PHS Home Solutions Limited | £4.4m | 4 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Herefordshire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Herefordshire Council - New Public Realm Services Contract | M Group Highways Ltd | £118m | Other |
| Further Competition for Hereford Western Bypass Phase 1 | John Graham Construction Limited | £1.9m | Other |
| Lot 5 ITQ Surface Dressing | Eurovia Infrastructure Limited | £1.5m | Other |
| Provision of a Digital Payment Platform for the Herefordshire Council Crisis and Resilience Fund | Evouchers Limited | £1.5m | Framework call-off |
| Merton Meadows Flood Alleviation works Phase1 | Speller Metcalfe Malvern Limited | £1.2m | Other |
How the money is awarded
57% of Herefordshire's awarded value went through open competition and 2% was awarded directly. A further 41% 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 57% (£196m)
- Other/Unspecified 41% (£142m)
- Direct 2% (£5.3m)
- Framework/DPS 1% (£2.6m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Herefordshire, 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 | Tender for the provision of the Integrated Community Equipment Service (ICES) | NRS Healthcare | £9.1m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Tender for the provision of the Technology Enabled Care Service (TECS) in Herefordshire | NRS Healthcare | £2.5m |
| 31 Aug 2027 | 11 | Framework for the provision of bed and breakfast / hotel accommodation for use as tempo…4 award notices, shown once | framework, 4 suppliers | £2.0m |
| 31 Aug 2027 | 11 | Public Space CCTV / Security Monitoring Services for Herefordshire Council | Enigma CCTV Ltd | £1.7m |
| 16 Sep 2027 | 12 | Mini competition (Tender) for the provision of Aylestone High School Expansion- Project… | Gleeds Management Services Limited | £735,654 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Herefordshire 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sep 2026 | Procurement of Sensory Impairment Service | Cabinet member adults, health and wellbeing |
| 28 Aug 2026 | Recommissioning of Children’s Rights & Advocacy and Independent Visitors Services | Cabinet member children and young people |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Recommissioning of Family Help Service | Cabinet member children and young people |
| 1 Sep 2026 | To extend the council’s current commissioned home care frameworks | Cabinet member adults, health and wellbeing |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Award of contract for the provision of overnight short breaks and outreach service for children… | Cabinet member children and young people |
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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
Where Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire. 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 Herefordshire's own published papers, at https://councillors.herefordshire.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 Herefordshire'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.