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Kingston upon Thames: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.

Kingston upon Thames is a London borough. We hold 684 of its award notices, 55 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)

684
Award notices on record, 2021 to 2026
419
Distinct suppliers
£881m
Total awarded value, 2021 to 2026
120
Papers read in four months
10
Committees tracked

GovLeads reads Kingston upon Thames's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 497 of those 684 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.

Next committee meetings

The next 5 scheduled meetings at Kingston upon Thames, taken from the council's own calendar. Papers usually appear five clear working days beforehand, and we read them the night they land.

DateCommittee
22 Sep 2026Licensing Sub-Committee
23 Sep 2026Pension Fund Panel
23 Sep 2026Place Committee
24 Sep 2026Corporate and Resources Committee
28 Sep 2026Schools Forum

Source: Kingston upon Thames's published committee calendar.

Biggest suppliers

Ranked by total awarded value across every Kingston upon Thames 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.

SupplierAwarded valueAwards
Veolia ES (UK) Limited£187m2
Matrix SCM£124m2
Places for People Leisure Management Limited£120m2
Morgan Sindall Property Services£33.5m2
APCOA Parking (UK) Ltd£32.0m2

Largest awards of the last 12 months

The biggest awards Kingston upon Thames 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.

AwardSupplierValueRoute
Leisure Management Operator ServicesPlaces for People Leisure Management Ltd£120mOpen
Acre Road Redevelopment - Principal Contractor ServicesBugler Developments£13.7mOpen
Provision of Cloud Datacenter ServicesAmazon Web Services£5.4mOther
Water, Wastewater and Ancillary ServicesAnglian Water Business£2.2mRestricted
Fire Remedial ActionsQuinn London£2.2mRestricted

How the money is awarded

47% of Kingston upon Thames's awarded value went through open competition and 4% was awarded directly. A further 49% 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.

  • Other/Unspecified 49% (£435m)
  • Competed 47% (£411m)
  • Direct 4% (£35.0m)

Contracts expiring within 18 months

The 5 largest by value on record for Kingston upon Thames, 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.

EndsMonths leftContractSupplierValue
31 Jan 20274Agency StaffingMatrix SCM£119m
31 Mar 20276Receipt, bulking, haulage, and treatment of food waste and green garden waste4 award notices, shown onceframework, 4 suppliers£16.6m
30 Sep 202712Building Maintenance and Facilities Management (HardFM) CCS Lot1b RM3830Mitie FM Limited£15.0m
3 Dec 202714Acre Road Redevelopment - Principal Contractor ServicesBugler Developments£13.7m
1 Apr 20276Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Sector Commissioning 2023 - Phase 35 award notices, shown onceframework, 5 suppliers£5.2m

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Procurement radar

Committee papers Kingston upon Thames 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.

5 of 120 papers, in Kingston upon Thames’s own words
MeetingPaperCommittee
16 Jun 2026Mechanical Street Cleansing Residue Treatment and Recycling Contract - Recommission Procurement…Recommendation(s) The Committee is asked to RESOLVE that the procurement strategy for the South London Waste Partnership (SLWP) mechanical street cleansing residue treatment and recycling contract, as set out in paragraphs 6-28 of the report, be approved on behalf of…Place Committee
4 Jun 2026E-Bike Concession Contract AwardRecommendation(s) The Committee is asked to RESOLVE that: 1. an e-bike hire concession contract held by the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and accessible by the London Borough of Sutton be awarded to Supplier A named in the EXEMPT…Place Committee
25 Jun 2026Soft FM Contract AwardOptions to issue a DA via an appropriate Framework will be reviewed and a short term contract will be issued while the full time contract is procured.Corporate and Resources Committee
16 Jun 2026PlayZones Project - Contract Award…asked to RESOLVE that the contract for the supply and installation of the PlayZone facilities be awarded to McArdle Sport Tec Limited for the sum of £1,293,070.57 (excluding VAT), as a direct award call-off under the Football Foundation’s PlayZones Framework.Place Committee

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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 Kingston upon Thames 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 Kingston upon Thames. 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 Kingston upon Thames's own published papers, at https://moderngov.kingston.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 Kingston upon Thames'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.

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