Blackpool: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Blackpool is a unitary authority in the North West. We hold 526 of its award notices, 32 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 3 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 Blackpool's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 291 of those 526 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Blackpool, 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 | Appeals Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Shareholder Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Audit Committee |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Public Protection Sub-Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Blackpool 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander Dennis | £42.4m | 2 |
| RP Tyson Construction LTD | £28.2m | 5 |
| The Networking People (TNP) Ltd | £15.0m | 1 |
| Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | £12.0m | 2 |
| Gaist Limited | £12.0m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Blackpool 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provision of Specialist Printing Services for Annual Council Tax Bills, Annual Business Rates B… | Critiqom Limited trading as Mail Metrics | £1.2m | Framework call-off |
| Provision of Specialist Printing Services for Annual Council Tax Bills, Annual Business Rates B… | Critiqom Limited trading as Mail Metrics | £1.0m | Framework call-off |
| GB-Blackpool: TPPL Blackpool Council BNES Bus Lot 3 - 5 x Low Floor Accessible Minibuses (28559) | WN Vtech T/A Mellor Coachcraft | £629,138 | Not specified |
| BCH Housing Management System | MRI Software Limited | £231,835 | Catalogue purchase |
| 7 - 13 Palatine Road £15k - £400k BHC Building and Refurbishment Framework | bambers | £218,000 | Open |
How the money is awarded
49% of Blackpool's awarded value went through open competition and 3% 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 49% (£112m)
- Framework/DPS 31% (£71.0m)
- Other/Unspecified 16% (£36.2m)
- Direct 3% (£7.8m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Blackpool, 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 Mar 2027 | 6 | Provision of Framework Agreement for the Disabled Facilities Grant Adaptations and Ramp…2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £6.5m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Provision of Blackpool Coastal Housing Sub-Contractor Building Trades Framework6 award notices, shown once | framework, 6 suppliers | £3.9m |
| 30 Jun 2027 | 9 | Asset Management and Property Management Services | Ellandi Management Limited | £3.7m |
| 30 Jun 2027 | 9 | Mental Health Rehabilitation and Support Service2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £3.0m |
| 30 Nov 2027 | 14 | ICT Hardware | Centerprise International Ltd | £2.0m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Blackpool 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Jun 2026 | Item 3 Housing Regen Framework update 280526The procurement process will be underpinned by soft market testing which has been undertaken with a range of regeneration developers, house builders and Registered Providers. | Shareholder Committee |
| 14 Sep 2026 | The purchase of Gateway College | Executive |
| 28 Jul 2026 | Item 2 Group Companies Policy FrameworkImplementation of the Framework will be undertaken using existing officer resource and within existing budgets. | Shareholder 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
Where Blackpool 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 Blackpool. 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 Blackpool's own published papers, at https://democracy.blackpool.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 Blackpool'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.