West Berkshire: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
West Berkshire is a unitary authority in the South East. We hold 345 of its award notices, 23 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 3 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 West Berkshire's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 270 of those 345 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at West Berkshire, 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 | Resources and Place Scrutiny Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Executive |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Health and Wellbeing Board |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Audit and Risk Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every West Berkshire 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Newbury & District Ltd | £12.8m | 8 |
| Beard Construction | £7.6m | 4 |
| Care Outlook Limited | £7.1m | 2 |
| Contract Trading Services Limited | £6.3m | 2 |
| Feltham Construction Ltd | £5.8m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards West Berkshire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falkland Primary School Classroom Replacement - AWARD | Ascia Construction Limited | £3.7m | Restricted |
| Royal Berkshire Archives Extension - AWARD | Feltham Construction Ltd | £2.6m | Restricted |
| West Berkshire Council Transport - Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) ongoing awards Oct-Dec 202512 award notices, shown once | framework, 12 suppliers | £835,771 | DPS call-off |
| West Berkshire Council Transport - Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) ongoing awards Jan-Mar 20265 award notices, shown once | framework, 5 suppliers | £438,156 | DPS call-off |
| Installation of floodlights at Faraday Road Football Ground, Newbury | Alliance Leisure Services Limited | £309,011 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
60% of West Berkshire'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 60% (£62.7m)
- Framework/DPS 38% (£39.7m)
- Other/Unspecified 3% (£2.6m)
- Direct under 1% (£29,859)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for West Berkshire, 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 | West Berkshire Council Transport Services Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) - ongoing awa…19 award notices, shown once | framework, 19 suppliers | £8.8m |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 1 | Falkland Primary School Classroom Replacement - AWARD | Ascia Construction Limited | £3.7m |
| 17 Feb 2027 | 5 | Royal Berkshire Archives Extension - AWARD | Feltham Construction Ltd | £2.6m |
| 19 Nov 2027 | 14 | Supply, Installation and Maintenance of Electric Vehicle Charge Points (West Berkshire… | SWARCO Smart Charging Ltd | £1.4m |
| 31 Jul 2027 | 10 | West Berkshire Council Transport Services Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) - ongoing awa…7 award notices, shown once | framework, 7 suppliers | £1.2m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers West Berkshire 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Jun 2026 | 3. Exec - Part I Contract Award Report HTMC - CleanThis report seeks Executive approval to award the Highways Term Maintenance Contract to the highest scoring bidder following the procurement process. | Executive |
| 29 Jun 2026 | 6a. Executive Call in RPSC report (Procurement Strategy)Furthermore, the strategy sets no numerical targets for future local procurement. | Resources and Place Scrutiny Committee |
| 13 Jul 2026 | 8. SEND & Joint Commissioning Presentation | Schools Forum |
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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 West Berkshire 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 West Berkshire. 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 West Berkshire's own published papers, at https://decisionmaking.westberks.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 West Berkshire'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.