Ipswich: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Ipswich is a district council in the East of England. We hold 393 of its award notices, and 32 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 Ipswich's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 304 of those 393 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Ipswich, 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 | Council |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Planning & Development Committee |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Strategic Overview & Scrutiny Committee |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Executive |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Licensing & Regulatory Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Ipswich 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mannings Northern Limited | £19.9m | 1 |
| Mulalley & Co Ltd | £9.5m | 3 |
| Gipping Construction Ltd | £8.7m | 3 |
| Aaron Services Limited | £8.6m | 7 |
| Brooks & Wood Ltd | £8.6m | 8 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Ipswich 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Passive fire protection works (Group 3) | Mulalley & Co Ltd | £5.0m | Framework call-off |
| Western Gateway re-development consultancy | Drees and Sommer UK Ltd | £3.2m | Framework call-off |
| Fire Safety remediation works (Group 2) | Mulalley & Co Ltd | £2.6m | Framework call-off |
| Fire Safety remediation works (Group 1) | Mulalley & Co Ltd | £1.9m | Framework call-off |
| Plastic Bins | Contenur (UK) Ltd | £1.2m | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
How Ipswich's awarded value splits across procurement routes. No Ipswich notice in our records is flagged as a direct award. That is what the published notices say, not proof none happened: direct awards are the part of the market least likely to reach a notice at all.
- Competed 75% (£73.7m)
- Framework/DPS 25% (£24.6m)
- Other/Unspecified under 1% (£296,457)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Ipswich, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Feb 2028 | 17 | Fire Safety remediation works (Group 2) | Mulalley & Co Ltd | £2.6m |
| 29 Feb 2028 | 17 | Fire Safety remediation works (Group 1) | Mulalley & Co Ltd | £1.9m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Plastic Bins | Contenur (UK) Ltd | £1.2m |
| 30 Nov 2027 | 14 | Asbestos Removal Works - AWARD | European Asbestos Services Ltd | £1.2m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Supply of road fuel | Rix Petroleum (East Anglia) Ltd | £1.1m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Ipswich 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. Ipswich published 215 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
Where Ipswich 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 Ipswich. 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 Ipswich's own published papers, at https://democracy.ipswich.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 Ipswich'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.