Northumberland County Council: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Northumberland County Council is a unitary authority in the North East. We hold 432 of its award notices, 50 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 4 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 Northumberland County Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 294 of those 432 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Northumberland County 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 | Castle Morpeth Community Partnership |
| 21 Sep 2026 | JOINT OSC FOR THE NE & NORTH CUMBRIA ICS & NORTH & CENTRAL ICPS |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Licensing Hearing |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Tynedale Community Partnership |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Ashington & Blyth Community Partnership |
Source: Northumberland County Council's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Northumberland County 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kier Construction Limited | £49.7m | 3 |
| Edf Energy Customers Limited | £40.5m | 1 |
| BAM Nuttall Limited | £27.8m | 6 |
| Dennis Eagle Limited | £26.0m | 5 |
| Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastucture Limited | £20.0m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Northumberland County 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berwick Academy Construction | Kier Construction Limited | £49.0m | Framework call-off |
| Supply of Electricity | Edf Energy Customers Limited | £40.5m | Framework call-off |
| Gas Supply | Corona Energy Retail 1 Limited | £18.0m | Framework call-off |
| Main Contractor Contract for Energy Efficient Retrofit Works2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £15.0m | DPS call-off |
| Water Retail Services | Anglian Water Business (national) Limited Trading as Wave | £6.0m | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
37% of Northumberland County Council's awarded value went through open competition and 8% 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.
- Framework/DPS 53% (£190m)
- Competed 37% (£133m)
- Direct 8% (£30.2m)
- Other/Unspecified 2% (£8.2m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Northumberland County 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Oct 2026 | under 1 | NCC662 Framework Agreement For The Provision Of Traffic Management Services3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £7.2m |
| 1 Dec 2026 | 2 | Wooler School Refurbishment | Robertsons Construction | £3.4m |
| 6 Aug 2027 | 10 | NCC1098 - Technical Advisor For Berwick Partnership Reorganisation - Lot 1 - Multidisci… | Mott MacDonald Ltd | £2.7m |
| 9 Oct 2026 | under 1 | Supply & Delivery of 10 Gritters | Bell Truck Sales Ltd | £1.7m |
| 12 Aug 2027 | 10 | NCC1557 Flood Alnmouth | Ove Arup & Partners Limited | £1.5m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Northumberland County Council 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Jul 2026 | 05.1 Adult Social Care Progressing our Next Steps and Commissioning Intentions App 1The Council's total gross spend on Adult Social Care commissioned services in 2024/25 was £165m and the chart below shows expenditure by type of care provision. | Health and Wellbeing OSC |
| 7 Jul 2026 | 05. Adult Social Care Progressing our Next Steps and Commissioning IntentionsIt also serves a primary purpose of articulating to our regulator, the Care Quality Commission (CQC), our long term strategy and vision for the delivery of Adult Social Care (ASC) in the County. | Health and Wellbeing OSC |
| 7 Jul 2026 | 05.2 Adult Social Care Progressing our Next Steps and Commissioning Intentions App 2From the beginning of 2025 the council has taken the decision to temporarily close the procurement portal to new entrants for fixed periods of time whilst it reviewed contract arrangements to manage the number of companies it currently contracts with. | Health and Wellbeing OSC |
| 7 Jul 2026 | 05.3 Adult Social Care Progressing our Next Steps and Commissioning Intentions App 3Procurement for the Care and Support services will commence in 2026. | Health and Wellbeing OSC |
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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 Northumberland County 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 Northumberland. 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 Northumberland County Council's own published papers, at https://northumberland.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 Northumberland'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.