North East Combined Authority: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
North East Combined Authority is a combined authority in the North East. We hold 75 of its award notices, 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 North East Combined Authority's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 35 of those 75 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 4 scheduled meetings at North East Combined Authority, 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 |
| 20 Oct 2026 | Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 8 Dec 2026 | Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 12 Jan 2027 | Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
Source: North East Combined Authority's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every North East Combined Authority 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Children North East | £1.7m | 2 |
| Association of Education Advisers | £1.6m | 1 |
| Cedarwood Trust | £1.6m | 1 |
| Challenging Education Ltd | £1.6m | 1 |
| Groundwork North East | £1.6m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards North East Combined Authority 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB-Tyne: TPPL Nexus HCC Lot 2 - 3 x Welfare Van (25213) | Ford Motor Co. Ltd Self Billing | £140,261 | Not specified |
| GB-Tyne: TPPL Nexus HCC Lot 3 - 1 x 7.2t Arborist Tipper (28084) | North East Truck & Van | £77,409 | Not specified |
| Child Poverty Reduction Programme - Local Test and Learn Pilot - Baby Boxes | The Children Foundation Limited | not stated | Open |
| Cycle to Work Scheme | Green Commute Initiative | not stated | Direct award |
| Nexus Backup and Recovery Solution | Akhter Computers Limited | not stated | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
99% of North East Combined Authority'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 99% (£50.0m)
- Other/Unspecified 1% (£313,817)
- Direct 0% (not stated)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
No North East Combined Authority contract in our records carries an end date inside the next 18 months. End dates are only published on some notices, so this is a floor rather than a complete picture.
Procurement radar
Committee papers North East Combined Authority 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Jun 2026 | 10 The North East MSA Risk Management FrameworkReview, comment upon and approve the North East MSA’s Risk Management Framework. | 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 North East Combined Authority 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 North East. 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 North East Combined Authority's own published papers, at https://northeast-ca.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 North East's.
What is counted as the North East authority. The North of Tyne Combined Authority and the 2014 North East Combined Authority were both abolished on 7 May 2024 and this authority established in their place, taking their functions. Their award notices are counted here because there is no separate body left holding those contracts: a supplier on a North of Tyne contract now deals with this authority. Nexus, the Tyne and Wear passenger transport executive, transferred to it under the same order and is counted too.
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.