Knowsley: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Knowsley is a metropolitan borough in the North West. We hold 366 of its award notices, 24 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 2 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 Knowsley's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 318 of those 366 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Knowsley, 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 |
|---|---|
| 22 Sep 2026 | Corporate Resources and Communities Scrutiny Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Cabinet |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Planning Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Employment and Appointments Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Place, Environment and Climate Scrutiny Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Knowsley 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Genr8 Kajima Regeneration Limited | £128m | 2 |
| Matrix SCM | £12.0m | 1 |
| IED Installations Ltd | £5.6m | 4 |
| Dunkil Developments | £4.6m | 8 |
| Everyone Health Limited | £4.2m | 3 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Knowsley 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halewood Leisure Centre External Works - Lot 3B Dynamic Purchasing System for Landscape Provide… | Dunkil Developments Ltd | £3.0m | Other |
| 12765 School Playing Field Improvement Scheme at Various Primary Schools across Knowsley | Ground Inc Ltd | £668,951 | Other |
| 020532 Copthorne Greenway Project Works | Dunkil Developments Ltd | £499,169 | Other |
| Fire Door Replacement Scheme & Passive Fire Works | Avrenim Facilities Management Ltd | £443,887 | Other |
| 12784 (001679)Office Furniture Solutions and Associated Services | H. Jenkinsons & Company Limited | £216,000 | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
81% of Knowsley's awarded value went through open competition and 7% 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 81% (£188m)
- Other/Unspecified 12% (£28.0m)
- Direct 7% (£16.9m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Knowsley, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Jul 2027 | 9 | Halewood Leisure Centre External Works - Lot 3B Dynamic Purchasing System for Landscape… | Dunkil Developments Ltd | £3.0m |
| 17 Jun 2027 | 9 | 12153 Furnished Tenancies Furniture | Furniture Resource Centre | £1.8m |
| 28 Oct 2026 | 1 | Food Deal DPS - Category 2, Frozen Foods - 985 | Totalserve Wholesale Limited | £1.6m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Contract for the Provision, Support and Maintenance of Broadband to Schools | The AdEPT Technology Group | £830,000 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Young People's Face to Face and Online Counselling Service in Knowsley | ZunTold | £794,733 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Knowsley 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Jul 2026 | 6B. ICB 5 Year Clinical and Strategic Commissioning Plan | Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System Joint Health Scrutiny Committee |
| 15 Jul 2026 | Electoral Review of Knowsley - Response to Local Government Boundary Commission for England Con……Knowsley Council’s previous submission on warding arrangements, it is proposed that the Boundary Commission’s recommendations be supported in full and the response set out at Appendix A be submitted as part of the Boundary Commission’s second round of public consultation. | 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 Knowsley 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 Knowsley. 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 Knowsley's own published papers, at https://councillors.knowsley.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 Knowsley'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.