Oldham: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Oldham is a metropolitan borough in the North West. We hold 302 of its award notices, 9 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 2 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 Oldham's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 116 of those 302 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Oldham, 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 | Leaders’ Consultative Meeting |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Licensing Driver Panel |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Planning Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Highway Regulation Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee for Northern Care Alliance |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Oldham 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd | £111m | 5 |
| Tilbury Douglas Construction Limited | £42.4m | 3 |
| Reed Specialist Recruitment | £22.0m | 1 |
| Kier Construction Limited - Build UK | £7.4m | 1 |
| Whitfield & Brown Developments Limited | £4.2m | 3 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Oldham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wrigley Head Solar Farm EPC and O&M Contractor | Vital Energi Utilities Limited | £1.6m | Open |
| ICT118 : Microsoft AZURE MACC | Insight Direct UK LTD | £1.2m | Framework call-off |
| ICT240 : Microsoft Unified Support | Insight Direct UK LTD | £672,000 | Framework call-off |
| Legal Services - GNDDP and Oldham Low Carbon Heat Network Commercialisation work | Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP | £250,000 | Direct award |
| CCS GC14 Project Ref 68835 Income Manager RM1557.14 Oldham Council Unit4 Business Software | Unit4 Business Software Limited | £150,000 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
7% of Oldham's awarded value went through open competition and under 1% was awarded directly. A further 58% sits on notices that do not state a route at all. 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.
- Other/Unspecified 58% (£140m)
- Framework/DPS 35% (£85.5m)
- Competed 7% (£16.1m)
- Direct under 1% (£420,000)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Oldham, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Nov 2026 | 2 | Manchester Street Viaduct Main Contractor | Eric Wright Civil Engineering Limited | £3.9m |
| 14 Dec 2027 | 15 | Water & Waste Water Services | Anglian Water Business (National) Limited | £3.9m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Enforcement Agency Services3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £2.5m |
| 1 Nov 2027 | 13 | Delivery of the Early Payment Scheme | Oxygen Finance Limited | £840,000 |
| 30 Nov 2026 | 2 | Professional Design Services - Manchester St Viaduct, Oldham | AECOM Limited | £531,500 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Oldham 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Aug 2026 | Contract award for winter gritters | Cabinet |
| 24 Aug 2026 | Emergency Out of Hours (Housing Options) Contract Procurement | 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 Oldham 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 Oldham. 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 Oldham's own published papers, at https://committees.oldham.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 Oldham'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.