Ashford: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Ashford is a district council in the South East. We hold 169 of its award notices, 25 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 Ashford's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 143 of those 169 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Ashford, 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 | Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Trading and Enterprise Board |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Audit Committee |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Cabinet |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Selection & Constitutional Review Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Ashford 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jenner (Contractors) Limited | £23.4m | 4 |
| WW Martin Ltd | £12.7m | 3 |
| E.on Energy Solutions Limited | £11.3m | 1 |
| The Window Company (Contracts) Ltd | £6.0m | 1 |
| Walker Construction (UK) Limited | £4.5m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Ashford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redevelopment of Oakleigh House into Independent Living Apartments | Jenner (Contractors) Limited | £18.3m | Framework call-off |
| 20 New General Needs Dwellings for Affordable Rent at 55 Mabledon Avenue | WW Martin Ltd | £8.2m | Framework call-off |
| Kitchen & Bathroom Replacements | SER Contractor Ltd | £3.1m | Framework call-off |
| Park Mall demolition and construction of interim car park | O'Connell Demolition Limited | £1.5m | Framework call-off |
| Warm Homes Retrofit Works - In the Borough of Ashford, Kent | Aran Insulation Limited | £1.3m | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
43% of Ashford's awarded value went through open competition and 0% 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 57% (£81.6m)
- Competed 43% (£62.0m)
- Direct 0% (not stated)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Ashford, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Nov 2027 | 14 | Redevelopment of Oakleigh House into Independent Living Apartments | Jenner (Contractors) Limited | £18.3m |
| 22 Jul 2027 | 10 | 20 New General Needs Dwellings for Affordable Rent at 55 Mabledon Avenue | WW Martin Ltd | £8.2m |
| 14 Jan 2028 | 16 | MATERIAL SUPPLY & ASSOCIATED SERVICES | Huws Gray Limited | £3.5m |
| 28 Oct 2026 | 1 | Park Mall demolition and construction of interim car park | O'Connell Demolition Limited | £1.5m |
| 31 Aug 2027 | 11 | Housing Software | MRI Software Limited | £1.3m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Ashford 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 Jul 2026 | ProcurementIn compliance with legislative requirements, a pipeline of upcoming procurement activities will be published on the Central Digital Platform (Find a Tender Service FTS). | Cabinet |
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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 Ashford 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 Ashford. 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 Ashford's own published papers, at https://ashford.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 Ashford'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.