Manchester: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Manchester is a metropolitan borough in the North West. We hold 1,106 of its award notices, 42 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 6 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 Manchester's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 581 of those 1,106 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Manchester, 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 Sub Committee Hearing Panel |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Licensing and Appeals Sub Committee Hearing Panel |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Constitutional and Nomination Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Planning Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Manchester 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ocean Outdoor | £88.1m | 2 |
| Drax Energy Solutions Limited | £86.7m | 3 |
| Npower Commercial Gas Limited | £66.7m | 2 |
| Sse | £66.7m | 2 |
| Marston Holdings | £65.5m | 7 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Manchester 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| TC985 Learning and Development Flexible Purchasing System - Round 120 award notices, shown once | framework, 20 suppliers | £5.0m | Open |
| P-0907 Wilmslow Road Cyclops | Rosgal Ltd | £980,000 | Other |
| Q88606 - Levenshulme & Burnage Active Neighbourhood A6 Sparrow Crossing | Bethell Construction Limited | £354,250 | Other |
| Lot 1 - TC905 Library RFID Solutions | Bibliotheca | £333,810 | Open |
| P-1042- Wilbraham Road Streets for All (feasibility) | Steer Davies Gleave | £115,509 | Other |
How the money is awarded
95% of Manchester's awarded value went through open competition and 2% 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 95% (£1.3bn)
- Other/Unspecified 3% (£42.3m)
- Direct 2% (£30.3m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Manchester, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 May 2027 | 8 | TC040- Surfacing of Carriageways and Footways Framework3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £48.0m |
| 14 Dec 2027 | 15 | TC618 - NORTH WEST CONSTRUCTION HUB - CONSULTANCY FRAMEWORK (2024 TO 2028)26 award notices, shown once | framework, 26 suppliers | £36.0m |
| 18 Feb 2028 | 17 | TC473 - Supply of Gas2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £32.0m |
| 14 May 2027 | 7 | TC041 - Proprietary Treatments to Carriageways and Footways3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £24.0m |
| 30 Jun 2027 | 9 | TC056 - Highways Support Framework4 award notices, shown once | framework, 4 suppliers | £20.0m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Manchester 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sep 2026 | Homelessness Commissioning Update: Grant Funded ContractsExpected conditions of participation for the invitation to tender will include the standard conditions regarding legal and financial capacity of the providers, and also include detailed requirements regarding technical ability, in particular relevant experience of delivering high-quality housing related support… | Executive |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Housing Repairs Insourcing and Recommissioning Part AAccordingly, this report seeks approval to proceed with implementation of the combined insourcing and recommissioning model and the associated mobilisation and procurement activity necessary to achieve operational commencement from 1 April 2027. | Executive |
| 2 Jul 2026 | Adult Social Care - Care Market and Commissioning updateCommissioning forms a central component of Adult Social Care activity, covering market management, procurement, contract oversight and quality assurance. | Health Scrutiny Committee |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Water Street Strategic Regeneration Framework Consultation UpdateApprove the Water Street SRF Update, and request that Planning and Highways Committee take the framework into account as a material consideration when considering planning applications for the area. | Executive |
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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 Manchester 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 Manchester. 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 Manchester's own published papers, at https://democracy.manchester.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 Manchester'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.