Tameside: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Tameside is a metropolitan borough in the North West. We hold 588 of its award notices, 15 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 Tameside's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 540 of those 588 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Tameside, 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 | Scrutiny Co-ordination and Strategic Improvement Scrutiny Panel |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Audit Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Health and Wellbeing Board |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Place and External Relations Scrutiny Panel |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Executive Cabinet |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Tameside 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stamford Cars UK Ltd | £7.8m | 90 |
| Freerun Private Services | £5.7m | 61 |
| Nexus Move Ltd | £5.6m | 64 |
| Galliford Try | £4.3m | 1 |
| Heywood Limited T/A Heywood Pension Technolgies | £3.9m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Tameside 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lot 4 - Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council108 award notices, shown once | framework, 18 suppliers | £8.8m | Other |
| 12694 - Stalybridge Multi Storey Car Park | Galliford Try | £4.3m | Other |
| Security & Cleaning (Soft FM Services) - Morgan Quarter Cardiff | Westgrove Group | £2.2m | Open |
| Lot 4 - Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council21 award notices, shown once | framework, 8 suppliers | £1.5m | Other |
| Delivery of Highway Related Services | A&T Surfacing Limited | £1.5m | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
23% of Tameside's awarded value went through open competition and 6% was awarded directly. A further 71% 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 71% (£50.5m)
- Competed 23% (£16.4m)
- Direct 6% (£4.4m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Tameside, 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 | Lot 4 - Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council53 award notices, shown once | framework, 15 suppliers | £5.5m |
| 22 Oct 2027 | 13 | 12694 - Stalybridge Multi Storey Car Park | Galliford Try | £4.3m |
| 4 Jun 2027 | 8 | Provision of Inspection, Service and Maintenance of Lifting and Hoisting Equipment inst… | City Lift Services (NW) Ltd | £2.0m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | NAFN Argus Project - The development and provision of a bespoke integrated Cloud based… | TIZO Ltd | £1.1m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | ICT Services - Migration to Unit4 Cloud | Unit4 Business Software Limited | £867,563 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Tameside 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Jul 2026 | Framework Contract Award for the Provision of SEND Home to School and Vulnerable Adult TransportRecommendations: To approve the use of the Open Framework for the award of contracts for SEND home-to-school transport and vulnerable adult transport. | Executive Cabinet |
| 26 Aug 2026 | HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAMME – CONTRACT AWARDThe design contract award of £0.145m to Metis Consultants Limited (per recommendation a) will be financed via the £1.751m balance of remaining budget per table 2. | Executive Cabinet |
| 26 Aug 2026 | Stalybridge MSCP Construction Contract AwardApprove the appointment of Galliford Try PLC as contractor for the delivery of the Stalybridge Multi Storey Car Park (MSCP) following a competitive tender process via STaR and the NW Construction Hub framework. | Executive 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 Tameside 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 Tameside. 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 Tameside's own published papers, at https://tameside.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 Tameside'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.