Swindon: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Swindon is a unitary authority in the South West. We hold 311 of its award notices, and 23 contracts due to end within 18 months. 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 Swindon's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 215 of those 311 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Swindon, 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 | Schools Forum |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Finance Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue Authority |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Licensing Panel |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Private Hire and Hackney Carriage Licensing Sub-Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Swindon 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Viridor Energy Limited | £58.3m | 2 |
| Liberata UK Limited | £29.9m | 2 |
| Connor Construction (South West) Ltd | £29.1m | 4 |
| Change Grow Live Services Ltd | £20.8m | 2 |
| Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd | £18.4m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Swindon 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Public Health Nursing Case Management Hosted Software as a Service Tender | Access UK Ltd | £1.2m | Open |
| The appointment of a managing consultant to lead a whole house retrofit project to 106 homes wi… | McBains Limited | £710,333 | Open |
| Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Car Parking Equipment and removal and disposal of repla… | Scheidt & Bachmann UK Ltd | £660,365 | Restricted |
| Lot 1: Bus & Coach – Individual routes / bus services (public, education and social care transp…2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | not stated | Restricted |
| Lot 2: Minibus - Individual routes (public and education transport)2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | not stated | Restricted |
How the money is awarded
97% of Swindon's awarded value went through open competition and 1% 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 97% (£347m)
- Other/Unspecified 2% (£7.7m)
- Framework/DPS 1% (£2.6m)
- Direct 1% (£2.3m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Swindon, 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 Dec 2026 | 3 | The supply and installation of domestic LD1 & LD2 and Environmental Sensors | Sureserve Fire & Electrical (formally Allied Protection) | £10.5m |
| 28 Feb 2027 | 5 | Supply and Installation of Roofs & Solar Panels | Breyer Group Plc | £6.6m |
| 2 Mar 2027 | 5 | Passive Fire Protection Works | Ian Williams Limited | £4.0m |
| 30 Nov 2027 | 14 | Asbestos Surveys and Re Inspections | Acorn Analytical Services Limited | £2.2m |
| 30 Nov 2027 | 14 | Stock Condition Surveys and Associated Services | Currie & Brown UK Limited | £1.9m |
18 more Swindon contracts expire by 20 March 2028. Start a free trial to see them.
Procurement radar
Committee papers Swindon published in the last four months whose title uses the language of buying.
No procurement decision reached a committee here in the last four months. Swindon published 196 papers in that window and none of them is titled as a tender, an award, an extension or a waiver.
That is common and it is not a gap in our reading: most councils delegate day-to-day buying to officers, and only the larger decisions reach a committee with a paper to their name. The award notices above are the fuller record of what this council actually buys.
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 Swindon 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 Swindon. 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 Swindon's own published papers, at https://ww5.swindon.gov.uk/moderngov. 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 Swindon'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.