West Midlands Combined Authority: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
West Midlands Combined Authority is a combined authority in the West Midlands. We hold 896 of its award notices, and 79 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 West Midlands Combined Authority's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 716 of those 896 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at West Midlands Combined Authority, 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 | Investment Board |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Employment Committee |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Local Scrutiny Committee |
| 19 Oct 2026 | Investment Board |
| 13 Nov 2026 | WMCA Board |
Source: West Midlands Combined Authority's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every West Midlands Combined Authority 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Taylor Woodrow Infrastructure Limited | £42.0m | 3 |
| C&W Business Solutions | £12.9m | 4 |
| Free to Learn Ltd | £9.0m | 6 |
| Next Energy Solutions Ltd | £8.8m | 1 |
| Haigh Rail Limited | £8.5m | 17 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards West Midlands Combined Authority 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supply Chain Transition (Investment Zone) | C&W Business Solutions Ltd | £11.8m | Open |
| Supply and Installation of Bus Shelters across TfWM Network | Bus Shelters Limited | £1.7m | Framework call-off |
| Bus Franchising - Procurement & Commercial Services Support - Contract Award Notice | Ernst & Young LLP | £1.1m | Framework call-off |
| Swift Go On Rail | Euclid Limited | £580,100 | Framework call-off |
| Velociti Solutions Scheduling Suite for Franchising | Velociti Solutions Limited | £537,055 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
41% of West Midlands Combined Authority's awarded value went through open competition and 5% 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.
- Framework/DPS 52% (£202m)
- Competed 41% (£157m)
- Direct 5% (£18.2m)
- Other/Unspecified 3% (£10.1m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for West Midlands Combined Authority, 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 Jan 2027 | 4 | WMCA Framework Agreement relating to the provision of Diversionary Utilities Works for…6 award notices, shown once | framework, 6 suppliers | £30.0m |
| 31 Dec 2027 | 15 | Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) Bus Priority Programme | John Sisk & Son Limited | £4.6m |
| 29 Feb 2028 | 17 | Midland Metro Limited (MML) Track Framework Agreement | Haigh Rail Limited | £4.2m |
| 14 May 2027 | 7 | West Midlands Combined Authority Purchase of Microsoft Licenses | Trustmarque | £2.3m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | UKSPF Business Support - Investment Readiness Programme - Contract Award Notice2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £2.2m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers West Midlands Combined Authority 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. West Midlands Combined Authority published 94 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
Covering the same ground
Where West Midlands Combined Authority 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 Midlands. 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 Midlands Combined Authority's own published papers, at https://wmca.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 West Midlands'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.