Southend-on-Sea: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Southend-on-Sea is a unitary authority in the East of England. We hold 342 of its award notices, 32 contracts due to end within 18 months, 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 Southend-on-Sea's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 227 of those 342 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Southend-on-Sea, 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 | Health & Wellbeing Board |
| 7 Oct 2026 | The Council |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Policy and Resources Overview & Scrutiny Committee |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Cabinet |
| 14 Oct 2026 | Planning Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Southend-on-Sea 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 |
|---|---|---|
| SUEZ Recycling and Recovery UK Limited | £45.0m | 4 |
| Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited | £40.0m | 1 |
| Auburn Group Limited | £4.8m | 3 |
| Agilisys Limited | £3.5m | 2 |
| Everyone Health Limited | £3.2m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Southend-on-Sea 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SCC - Refurbishments to Play Areas in Multiple Parks within the City of Southend on Sea | PVR contracting Ltd | £798,367 | Open |
| AI & Data Apprenticeships | Multiverse Group Limited | £714,000 | DPS call-off |
| The Continuation of Pre-Construction Activities and the Provision of Early Works - Leigh Port R… | Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd | £700,000 | Framework call-off |
| Provision of a Choice Based Lettings and Homelessness System | Civica Limited | £204,654 | Framework call-off |
| Cisco infrastructure Fortinet Firewall 2026-2027 - NTT | NTT United Kingdom Limited | £174,859 | Other - Direct contract with supplier to extend current provision |
How the money is awarded
26% of Southend-on-Sea's awarded value went through open competition and 1% was awarded directly. A further 31% 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.
- Framework/DPS 43% (£66.0m)
- Other/Unspecified 31% (£46.9m)
- Competed 26% (£39.5m)
- Direct 1% (£880,834)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Southend-on-Sea, 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 Aug 2027 | 11 | Healthy Lifestyles Services | Everyone Health Limited | £3.2m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | M2122-16 Installation of Fire Doors & Other Fire Improvement Works | Harmony Fire | £3.1m |
| 27 Jul 2027 | 10 | Provision of Microsoft Dynamics - Catalyst and Implementation Partner via CCS RM6100 Te… | Agilisys Limited | £3.0m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | Provision of Cloud-based Unit 4 Enterprise Resource Planning solution via CCS RM1558.13… | Unit4 Business Software Ltd | £1.4m |
| 31 Jul 2027 | 10 | SSC - BSTC002 - Inspection, Servicing and Maintenance of Drains and Pumps, Fire Fightin…3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £1.2m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Southend-on-Sea 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Jul 2026 | App 2 - Local Code of Governance Assurance Framework 2026 review | Audit & Governance 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 Southend-on-Sea 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 Southend-on-Sea. 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 Southend-on-Sea's own published papers, at https://southend.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 Southend-on-Sea'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.