Lichfield: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Lichfield is a district council in the West Midlands. We hold 221 of its award notices, 25 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 1 committee paper 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 Lichfield's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 202 of those 221 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Lichfield, 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 |
|---|---|
| 29 Sep 2026 | Audit Committee |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Planning Committee |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Cabinet |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Council |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Employment Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Lichfield 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Riverside Truck Rental Ltd | £23.4m | 3 |
| Stepnell Limited | £9.5m | 2 |
| The Best Connection Group Limited | £4.8m | 3 |
| Zurich Insurance PLC | £3.3m | 2 |
| Turberg Matec UK | £1.9m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Lichfield 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LDC-334 Waste Vehicles | Riverside Truck Rental Ltd | £11.8m | Open |
| Food Waste Receptacles / Caddies | Ipl Plastics (UK) t/a Ipl Hull | £1.9m | Framework call-off |
| Revenues and Benefits System | NEC Software Solutions UK Ltd | £1.1m | Framework call-off |
| LLC Gym Equipment | Pulse Fitness Limited | £221,442 | Framework call-off |
| DFG Stairlifts | Stannah Lift Services | £200,000 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
51% of Lichfield's awarded value went through open competition and 3% 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 51% (£34.0m)
- Framework/DPS 43% (£28.8m)
- Direct 3% (£2.2m)
- Other/Unspecified 3% (£1.9m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Lichfield, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Nov 2026 | 2 | Stychbrook Park Leisure Centre | Stepnell Limited | £9.5m |
| 27 Nov 2026 | 2 | Temporary Agency Staff | The Best Connection Group Limited | £2.1m |
| 31 Oct 2026 | 1 | LDC-395 Leisure Centre Construction RIBA 5+ Consultancy2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £999,000 |
| 30 Nov 2027 | 14 | Service Desk Managed Service | Razorblue Ltd | £280,800 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Housing, Environment and Planning Software | Idox Software Ltd | £274,125 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Lichfield 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Jul 2026 | Procurement Matters Report FINAL - 2026S3 Number of tenders with social value criteria (% of annual Procurement) 10% 24 11.76% Measures the percentage of total tenders issued in a year that include social value considerations as part of the evaluation criteria, reflecting the organisation's commitment… | Cabinet |
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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 Lichfield 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 Lichfield. 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 Lichfield's own published papers, at https://lichfield.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 Lichfield'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.