Medway: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Medway is a unitary authority in the South East. We hold 160 of its award notices, 1 contract 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 Medway's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 25 of those 160 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Medway, 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 | Cabinet |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Planning Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Cabinet Sub Committee (Medway Norse Ltd Shareholder Board) |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Licensing Hearing Panel |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Medway 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 |
|---|---|---|
| The Forward Trust | £13.8m | 3 |
| Dennis Eagle Limited | £11.9m | 1 |
| Angels Care Solutions | £3.8m | 2 |
| Boldglen Ltd | £3.8m | 2 |
| London Care Limited | £3.8m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
Medway has published no award notices in the last 12 months in the sources we read. Notices are only required above a value threshold, so a quiet twelve months in the notices is not the same as a quiet twelve months in the buying.
How the money is awarded
86% of Medway's awarded value went through open competition and 0% 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 86% (£72.9m)
- Other/Unspecified 14% (£11.9m)
- Direct 0% (not stated)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The largest contract by value on record for Medway, 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 Mar 2027 | 6 | Provision of a Family Time Service | Family Action | £1.2m |
Procurement radar
Committee papers Medway 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Aug 2026 | Gateway 3 Contract Award: Medway All Age Service (Substance Misuse)The tender was evaluated by Commissioners and key partners including Medway Council Adult Social Care, Youth Services, Youth Offending team and Housing and their collective input has informed the recommendation presented in this paper. | Cabinet |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Gateway 3: Contract Award for the Pre-Construction and Design Development for the Danecourt Sec…For this procurement of £1.8m, it is agreed with finance that it will be funded from grants already received rather than borrowing. | Cabinet |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Gateway 1 Procurement Commencement: Repairs and Maintenance for Temporary Accommodation Owned…Strategic Housing is recommending a tendering activity to procure a contract separate to this HRA contract to deliver repairs and maintenance to all general fund temporary accommodation. | Cabinet |
| 20 Aug 2026 | Procurement Strategy 2025-2030 Update ReportEnsuring the approved procurement strategy update enables officers to apply a corporately agreed emphasis to achieving value for money. | Business Support and Digital Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 19 Aug 2026 | Commissioning Intentions 2027-28The ICB will expect providers to use population health management, shared information, digital pathways, remote monitoring, artificial intelligence and evaluation frameworks to support better care, better outcomes and better use of public resources. | Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Proposed Pathway Redesign and Decommissioning of Bedgebury WardAttached to this report is a paper from the Integrated Care Board (ICB) which provides information on a proposed pathway redesign within mental health services, which would include the decommissioning of Bedgebury Ward in Maidstone. | Health and Adult Social Care Overview and Scrutiny 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
Where Medway 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 Medway. 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 Medway's own published papers, at https://democracy.medway.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 Medway'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.