Luton Borough Council: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Luton Borough Council is a unitary authority in the East of England. We hold 787 of its award notices, and 80 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 Luton Borough Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 563 of those 787 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Luton Borough Council, 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 | Licensing Committee |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Standards Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Constitution Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Full Council |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Licensing Committee |
Source: Luton Borough Council's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Luton Borough Council 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 & J Group (Construction & Roofing) Ltd | £214m | 1 |
| St Christopher's Fellowship | £59.0m | 2 |
| Foster Care Link Limited | £59.0m | 2 |
| Boom Construction Ltd | £23.1m | 4 |
| Ethos Farm Limited | £22.1m | 4 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Luton Borough Council 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AT1487 Independent Foster Agencies Provision2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £118m | Open |
| Luton Council FTS Open Tender Framework procurement for Mechanical Services Support: Domestic G…10 award notices, shown once | framework, 10 suppliers | £14.6m | Open |
| AT1334 - Bishopscote Road, Luton, Proposed SEMH School | Willmott Dixon Construction | £10.0m | Open |
| AT1759 - Lot 1- General Cleaning Services - East of England | Churchill Contract Services Ltd | £3.2m | Other |
| AT1211 Luton Council PCR15 Direct Award Approach of Refuse Vehicles (RCV's) in compliance with… | Faun Zoeller Limited | £3.1m | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
83% of Luton Borough Council's awarded value went through open competition and 6% 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 83% (£706m)
- Other/Unspecified 10% (£88.4m)
- Direct 6% (£52.2m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Luton Borough Council, 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 Aug 2027 | 11 | AT1329 Wandon Park Housing Development (FTS) | Boom Construction Ltd | £17.5m |
| 4 Apr 2027 | 6 | Luton Council FTS Open Tender Framework procurement for Mechanical Services Support: Do…10 award notices, shown once | framework, 10 suppliers | £14.6m |
| 26 Jul 2027 | 10 | AT1334 - Bishopscote Road, Luton, Proposed SEMH School | Willmott Dixon Construction | £10.0m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | 02695 AT1383 Former Parrot Pub Site Residential Development | LIFE Build Solutions Ltd | £6.4m |
| 30 Jun 2027 | 9 | AT1103 - Insurance Services2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £6.1m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Luton Borough Council 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. Luton Borough Council published 346 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 Luton Borough Council 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 Luton. 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 Luton Borough Council's own published papers, at https://democracy.luton.gov.uk/cmis5public. 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 Luton'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.