Wirral: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Wirral is a metropolitan borough in the North West. We hold 484 of its award notices, 52 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 9 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 Wirral's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 375 of those 484 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Wirral, 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 | Children Young People and Education Committee |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Corporate Parenting Panel |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Pensions Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Tourism, Communities, Culture & Leisure Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Constitution and Standards Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Wirral 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aviva Life & Pensions UK Ltd | £200m | 2 |
| JCS Online Resources Ltd | £29.9m | 2 |
| Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust | £23.7m | 4 |
| Seddon Construction Limited | £19.0m | 2 |
| Mercer | £10.0m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Wirral 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Enterprise Agreement Licences | SoftwareONE UK Ltd | £7.0m | Open |
| Merseyside Pension Fund Administration System | Heywood Limited | £6.0m | Other |
| Hybrid Mail 2026 | PSL Print Management Ltd | £1.4m | Direct award |
| MPF Strategic Property Advisor 2026 | CBRE Limited | £850,000 | Other |
| CDM Principal Designer/CDM Advisor Services and Building Regulations Principal Designer/Princip… | Keelagher Okey Associates Limited | £450,000 | Open |
How the money is awarded
76% of Wirral's awarded value went through open competition and 6% 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 76% (£322m)
- Other/Unspecified 18% (£75.4m)
- Direct 6% (£25.7m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Wirral, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | Equity Overlay / Downside Risk Management5 award notices, shown once | framework, 5 suppliers | £7.2m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Water and Waste Water Services | Wave | £6.0m |
| 27 Jun 2027 | 9 | Digital Transformation Partner | Microsoft Limited | £5.0m |
| 4 Aug 2027 | 10 | Cadent Diversion Works (Hind Street Project) | Cadent Gas Ltd | £3.6m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | B1 Minor Highway Footway and Carriageway Works Contract | C & D Surfacing Ltd | £1.4m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Wirral 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sep 2026 | Environmental Enforcement Contract - Permission to Tender and AwardApprove the initiation of a procurement exercise via an open tender process for environmental enforcement services; and 2. | Environment, Climate Emergency and Transport Committee |
| 15 Jul 2026 | Retender of the Family Time ServiceDuring the tender process and formulation of the service specification, there is an opportunity to expand, redefine and repurpose the Family time contract, to align to current priorities and areas of work linked to the Care Programme and Families First… | Children Young People and Education Committee |
| 15 Jun 2026 | Refuse Collection and Street Cleansing Contract Award reportGovernance Failure to provide adequate assurance could impact Members’ confidence in the tender received and may result in the contract award not being approved. | Environment, Climate Emergency and Transport Committee |
| 9 Sep 2026 | Revenues & Benefits – Replacement of Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) and Future Pr…Indicative costs obtained through the Soft Market Testing exercise suggest annual recurring software costs could be reduced when compared to current expenditure of approximately £450,000 per annum across both systems. | Policy and Resources Committee |
| 15 Sep 2026 | Commissioning Intentions for Ethnic Minority Health and Wellbeing ServicesThis report seeks agreement from the Adult Social Care and Public Health Committee to progress a procurement exercise for ethnic minority services from April 2027. | Adult Social Care and Public Health Committee |
| 22 Jul 2026 | Refuse Collection & Street Cleansing Contract Award | Policy and Resources Committee |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Delivery and Management Partner (Concession) & National Construction FrameworkFrameworks help public sector buyers to procure goods, services, and works from a list of pre-approved suppliers and can help save time and money by removing the need to run lengthy and expensive tender processes. | Policy and Resources Committee |
| 9 Sep 2026 | Risk Management Framework and Risk Appetite UpdateFollowing the completion of the risk appetite statement and further amendments to the RM Framework training for officers and members will be updated and rolled out in 2027. | Policy and Resources Committee |
| 14 Jul 2026 | CARE QUALITY COMMISSION SELF-ASSESSMENTThe Care Quality Commission (CQC) Self-Assessment Framework provides the Council with an additional opportunity to develop more rigour in our governance arrangements and our practice. | Adult Social Care and Public Health Committee |
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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 Wirral 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 Wirral. 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 Wirral's own published papers, at https://wirral.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 Wirral'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.