Thurrock: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Thurrock is a unitary authority in the East of England. We hold 180 of its award notices, 28 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 7 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 Thurrock's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 119 of those 180 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Thurrock, 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 | Planning Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Standards Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Place Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | General Services Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | General Services Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Thurrock 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Matrix SCM Ltd | £41.7m | 1 |
| Thurrock Lifestyle Solutions CIC | £35.1m | 5 |
| Hales Group Ltd | £34.7m | 3 |
| John Stanley's Care Agency Limited | £34.7m | 3 |
| Pineapple Care Services Limited | £34.7m | 3 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Thurrock 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Passenger Lifts Servicing and Repairs - AWARD | Amalgamated Lifts Limited | £2.1m | Other |
| ICT Hardware | Specialist Computer Centres PLC | £1.7m | Framework call-off |
| Grays Riverfront Project 3 | McLaughlin & Harvey Limited | £480,385 | Framework call-off |
| Modular Housing Development - AWARD | Reds10 (UK) Limited | £210,348 | Other |
| Confidential Waste Disposal Service - AWARD | Shred-it Limited | £35,238 | Other |
How the money is awarded
61% of Thurrock's awarded value went through open competition and under 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 61% (£201m)
- Framework/DPS 30% (£100m)
- Other/Unspecified 9% (£28.4m)
- Direct under 1% (£1.0m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Thurrock, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Dec 2026 | 2 | Temporary Agency Worker Resources | Matrix SCM Ltd | £41.7m |
| 31 Aug 2027 | 11 | 0-19 Healthy Child Programme (Healthy Families Service) - AWARD | North East London NHS Foundation Trust | £21.9m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Insurance & Associated Services | Zurich Municipal | £6.9m |
| 30 Nov 2027 | 14 | Highways & Transportation Professional Services | Pell Frischmann Consultants Ltd | £2.5m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | Total Security Solution - AWARD | MPD FM Limited | £2.4m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Thurrock 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Jul 2026 | Annual Procurement Plan for April 2026 - March 2027The Council must ensure that contract award notices are published (whether awarded by open competition or otherwise), including those contracts awarded as a result of a PCR framework call off (mini competition or direct award) which are at least £30,000.00… | Cabinet |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Procurement of Statutory Out of School Tuition Services for Children & Young People ReportThe invitation to tender will be issued in July 2026 with award of contracts in October 2026. | Cabinet |
| 15 Jul 2026 | Procurement of Processing of Dry Mixed Recyclables ContractFailure to procure within agreed budgets could breach internal financial controls and risk delivery of the Council’s statutory duty to dispose of waste. | Cabinet |
| 23 Jun 2026 | NOTICE OF URGENT DECISION - Procurement of Tuition Services…call off contracts and to approve the award call off contracts under the framework agreement at 2.1 be delegated: 1.3.1 to the Executive Director of Children’s Services if the contract value is below the key decision threshold; and 1.3.2 to… | Cabinet |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Delegated Officer Decision - Procurement of statutory out of school tuition services for childr… | Executive Director Children's Services |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Matrix Agency Worker 1 year contract extensionThe contract was awarded in December 2023 following the Cabinet decision on the 13 September 2023, which approved the re-procurement of an agency worker contract through the ESPO MSTAR4 framework with the continued use of the neutral vendor MSP model. | 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
Where Thurrock 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 Thurrock. 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 Thurrock's own published papers, at https://democracy.thurrock.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 Thurrock'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.