West Sussex County Council: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
West Sussex County Council is a county council in the South East. We hold 1,047 of its award notices, and 184 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 Sussex County Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 869 of those 1,047 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at West Sussex County Council, 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 | Cabinet |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Fire & Rescue Service Scrutiny Committee |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Appeals Panel |
| 9 Oct 2026 | Sussex Police and Crime Panel |
| 16 Oct 2026 | County Council |
Source: West Sussex County Council's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every West Sussex County Council 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bellrock Property & Facilities Mgmnt Ltd | £120m | 1 |
| WSP UK Limited | £66.5m | 2 |
| Willmott Dixon Construction Limited | £48.5m | 1 |
| Essex Cares Limited | £47.4m | 2 |
| FM Conway Ltd | £27.1m | 6 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards West Sussex County Council 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FM services 2024 | Bellrock Property & Facilities Mgmnt Ltd | £120m | Framework call-off |
| Traffic Signals 2026 | Telent Technology Services Limited | £25.0m | Open |
| Halewick Lane Battery Energy Storage Site - Phase 3 | Enable Infrastructure LTD | £15.1m | Open |
| Domestic Solar PV Group Purchasing Scheme 2026 | RetrofitWorks Limited | £3.3m | Open |
| contract for the provision of 6 medium pumping appliances | Emergency One UK Ltd | £2.4m | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
63% of West Sussex County Council'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 63% (£513m)
- Framework/DPS 34% (£277m)
- Other/Unspecified 2% (£17.2m)
- Direct 1% (£10.2m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for West Sussex County Council, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2027 | 13 | WSCC AE Meals on Wheels Service - AWARD | apetito Limited | £8.4m |
| 3 Nov 2026 | 1 | Oracle Implementation Partner | Infosys Limited | £5.8m |
| 31 Oct 2026 | 1 | WSCC - Employee Benefit Schemes for Employees and Carers/Care Leavers | Vivup | £3.8m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | The hire of standard and wheelchair accessible minibuses | London Hire Ltd | £3.2m |
| 31 Dec 2027 | 15 | contract for the provision of 6 medium pumping appliances | Emergency One UK Ltd | £2.4m |
179 more West Sussex County Council contracts expire by 20 March 2028. Start a free trial to see them.
Procurement radar
Committee papers West Sussex County Council 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 Sussex County Council published 296 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 Sussex County Council 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 Sussex. 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 Sussex County Council's own published papers, at https://westsussex.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 Sussex'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.