Sunderland City Council: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Sunderland City Council is a metropolitan borough in the North East. We hold 993 of its award notices, 69 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 5 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 Sunderland City Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 731 of those 993 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Sunderland City 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 | East Sunderland Area Committee |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Licensing Sub-Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | West Sunderland Area Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | North Sunderland Area Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Port Board |
Source: Sunderland City Council's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Sunderland City 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 - Build UK | £97.2m | 3 |
| VolkerStevin Ltd | £30.0m | 1 |
| Brims Construction Limited | £29.2m | 6 |
| Esh Construction Limited | £24.5m | 6 |
| Sir Robert McAlpine | £14.0m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Sunderland City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB-Sunderland: TPPL Sunderland City Council HCC Lot 2 - 61 x LCVs (28797) | Motus Commercials Derby | £1.8m | Not specified |
| THE PURCHASE OF 61 LIGHT COMMERCIAL VEHICLES | Motus Group (UK) Ltd t/a Pentagon Derby | £1.8m | Framework call-off |
| Project Management Lead Multidisciplinary Design Team to deliver next stage High Street West De… | Turner and Townsend | £1.5m | Framework call-off |
| Windows Desktop Devices and Mobile Phone Replacement | Probrand Limited | £790,951 | Framework call-off |
| Short Term, Temporary Supported Housing for Single Homeless Clients in Sunderland Aged 18-25 Ye… | The Cyrenians (Changing Lives) | £744,668 | Open |
How the money is awarded
53% of Sunderland City Council's awarded value went through open competition and 2% was awarded directly. A further 36% 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.
- Competed 53% (£233m)
- Other/Unspecified 36% (£161m)
- Framework/DPS 9% (£41.7m)
- Direct 2% (£7.9m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Sunderland City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Feb 2027 | 5 | Minibus Routes for Day Centre Transport - SCAS 2024 - 20273 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £12.3m |
| 22 Mar 2027 | 6 | Tree Works, Maintenance, and Tree Removal Services3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £9.0m |
| 31 Aug 2027 | 11 | Independent Adult Advocacy Services | VoiceAbility | £4.3m |
| 12 Feb 2027 | 4 | Framework for Hard and Soft Landscaping Works and the Initial 2 Lot 1 Mini Competitions…3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £4.0m |
| 31 Oct 2026 | 1 | Care and Support Within Extra Care Schemes | Sunderland Homecare Associates | £3.4m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Sunderland City 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sep 2026 | 09-00 Procurement and Award of Contracts for New Houghton DepotTo provide a progress update and seek approval for conclusion of the procurement process and the subsequent award of contracts associated with the development of a new Houghton Depot at Rainton Bridge, Houghton le Spring to replace the existing facility… | Cabinet |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Item 5i - Procurement Presentation 17Sept26Introduction to Procurement The Council and its trading companies (Together for Children and Sunderland Care and Support) spend over £500m per annum with over 4,500 providers on a diverse range of goods, works and services. | Scrutiny Co-ordinating Committee |
| 22 Jul 2026 | 12-00 Procurement of Personal Care and Nursing Care Within a Care Home ProvisionThe procurement approach will be documented in a Procurement Strategy Report completed by the Council’s procurement team in consultation with officers from Adult Social Care Commissioning to establish the most appropriate procurement solution for this specific market. | Cabinet |
| 22 Jul 2026 | 12-01 IIA-Procurement of Personal Care and Nursing Care Within a Care Home ProvisionPositive Explain how/why: The activity is to procure personal care and nursing care services in care homes for adults who have been assessed as being eligible for care and support under the Care Act 2014. | Cabinet |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Item 5 - Covering Report Procurement StrategyThe Head of Procurement will be in attendance to provide the overview and answer any questions from Members. | Scrutiny Co-ordinating 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
Covering the same ground
Where Sunderland City 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 Sunderland. 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 Sunderland City Council's own published papers, at https://committees.sunderland.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 Sunderland'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.