Worcester: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Worcester is a district council in the West Midlands. We hold 119 of its award notices, 8 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 1 committee paper 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 Worcester's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 98 of those 119 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Worcester, 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 |
|---|---|
| 24 Sep 2026 | Worcestershire Regulatory Services Board |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Licensing Sub-Committee - Street Trading |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Joint Museums Committee |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Planning Committee |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Planning Committee Site Visit |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Worcester 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Speller Metcalfe | £12.6m | 5 |
| Joseph Woods Builders | £2.0m | 5 |
| DFW Europe BV | £1.9m | 1 |
| Dennis Eagle Limited | £1.5m | 2 |
| Caring for Communities and People | £904,500 | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Worcester 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Martins Gate Car Park - Resurfacing Works to Roof Level and Part Fourth Floor. | Cemplas Waterproofing & Concrete Repairs Ltd | £374,368 | Not applicable |
| Arch 64: Refurbishment works - Procure Partnerships Framework | Speller Metcalfe | £150,601 | Direct award |
| Award via ESPO Refuse and Recycling Products 860_26 for the Supply of Household Waste and Recyc… | SSI Schaefer Plastics UK Limited | £93,509 | Framework call-off |
| Cemetery and Crematorium Software | GSS (NI) Limited ("PlotBox") | £90,001 | Framework call-off |
| Award via Fusion21 Framework (Lot 9 - Solar PV and Battery Storage) for Supply and Install sola… | Energygain UK LTD | £59,427 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
63% of Worcester's awarded value went through open competition and 1% was awarded directly. A further 24% sits on notices that do not state a route at all. 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% (£19.5m)
- Other/Unspecified 24% (£7.3m)
- Framework/DPS 12% (£3.8m)
- Direct 1% (£320,305)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Worcester, 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 Oct 2026 | 1 | Worcester Performing Arts Centre | Speller Metcalfe Limited | £9.7m |
| 31 Dec 2027 | 15 | Cleaning Services at Various Premises for Worcester City Council | Churchill Contract Services Ltd | £499,925 |
| 31 Oct 2027 | 13 | Worcester Victorian Fayre Market Concession | Cotswold Markets Ltd | £239,850 |
| 28 Feb 2027 | 5 | Award via ESPO Refuse and Recycling Products 860_26 for the Supply of Household Waste a… | SSI Schaefer Plastics UK Limited | £93,509 |
| 18 Apr 2027 | 7 | Medical Provision at Worcester Victorian Fayre | St John Ambulance | £53,251 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Worcester 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sep 2026 | Town and Country Planning Regulations 2026 Local Plan Gateway 1The purpose of Gateway 1 is to ensure that local planning authorities enter the planmaking process with a clear plan in place to ensure that a robust evidence base will be available to inform plan preparation. | Place and Economic Development 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 Worcester 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 Worcester. 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 Worcester's own published papers, at https://committee.worcester.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 Worcester'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.