Shropshire: who supplies it, and how much it awards without a contest.
Shropshire is a unitary authority in the West Midlands. We hold 371 of its award notices, 28 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 3 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 Shropshire's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 181 of those 371 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Shropshire, 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 | Northern Planning Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Housing Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Audit & Governance Committee |
| 25 Sep 2026 | West Mercia Energy Joint Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Shropshire 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Shropshire Community Leisure Trust Ltd | £186m | 3 |
| WSP UK limited | £100m | 2 |
| TotalEnergies Gas & Power Limited | £100m | 2 |
| Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd | £36.0m | 2 |
| Rowlands & Co (Shrewsbury) Limited | £16.1m | 4 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Shropshire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PMCV 028 - Public Health Nursing Service | Shropshire Community NHS Trust, Shropshire Community NHS Trust | £7.4m | Other |
| Mental Health Supported Living - My Place | Isabellas Homes Limited | £1.5m | DPS call-off |
| DMCV 025 - The Supply of Bar Supplies to Theatre Severn | Chapple & Jenkins Ltd | £647,166 | Open |
| Library Management System | Axiell ALM Ltd | £82,500 | Framework call-off |
| PMCV 028 - Public Health Nursing Service | Shropshire Community NHS Trust, Shropshire Community NHS Trust | not stated | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
61% of Shropshire's awarded value went through open competition and 22% 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 61% (£348m)
- Direct 22% (£124m)
- Other/Unspecified 16% (£93.1m)
- Framework/DPS 1% (£6.6m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Shropshire, 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 Jul 2027 | 10 | Leisure Services | Shropshire Community Leisure Trust Ltd | £62.4m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | PMCV 028 - Public Health Nursing Service | Shropshire Community NHS Trust, Shropshire Community NHS Trust | £7.4m |
| 11 May 2027 | 7 | AMCV 303 - 2 Carers in a Car2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £3.3m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | AMCV 301 - Provision of Residential Care for Adults with Learning Disabilities | Bethphage | £2.6m |
| 31 Oct 2027 | 13 | DMNV 028 - Biochar Pyrolysis Production Plant - Ludlow | Biodynamic Carbon Limited | £1.6m |
23 more Shropshire contracts expire by 20 March 2028. Start a free trial to see them.
Procurement radar
Committee papers Shropshire 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Jun 2026 | Commissioning and Procurement Strategy 22.05.26The Act places a duty on the council to "consider, prior to undertaking the procurement/ commissioning process, how any services procured might improve economic, social and environmental well-being". | Cabinet |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Q4 Performance Report and Corporate Plan Performance Framework 29.05.26Department for Health and Social Care, Measures from the Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework, ASCOF 2E (2B) % of people who received reablement with no further support required LOF Quarterly Demonstrates effectiveness of short-term interventions. | Cabinet |
Showing the 2 strongest matches of 3. This is the raw feed, not the brief: a subscriber gets the handful that match their business, scored, with the so-what written out. Start a free trial.
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 Shropshire 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 Shropshire. 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 Shropshire's own published papers, at https://shropshire.gov.uk/committee-services. 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 Shropshire'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.