Bracknell Forest: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Bracknell Forest is a unitary authority in the South East. We hold 94 of its award notices, 13 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 Bracknell Forest's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 57 of those 94 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Bracknell Forest, 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 | Berkshire Prosperity Board |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Cabinet |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Licensing Panel |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Licensing Panel |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Joint Public Protection Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Bracknell Forest 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Comensura Ltd | £48.0m | 1 |
| Windsar Care Limited | £18.5m | 2 |
| Neilcott Construction Limited | £8.8m | 2 |
| Thames Valley Buses | £5.9m | 3 |
| TotalEnergies Gas & Power Ltd | £3.7m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Bracknell Forest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utilities Consultancy and Supply Services- Gas | TotalEnergies Gas & Power Ltd | £3.7m | Other |
| Microsoft Enterprise and M365 licences | Phoenix Software Ltd | £1.8m | Direct award |
| MRI Software / ONE system | MRI Software Limited | £1.3m | Restricted |
| Liquid Logic / LAS / System C | Liquidlogic Limited | £1.1m | Restricted |
| Mosaic Hosted procurement | The Access Group Limited | £983,795 | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
35% of Bracknell Forest's awarded value went through open competition and 12% was awarded directly. A further 53% 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.
- Other/Unspecified 53% (£56.0m)
- Competed 35% (£36.5m)
- Direct 12% (£12.4m)
- Framework/DPS under 1% (£350,000)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Bracknell Forest, 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 Dec 2026 | 3 | All Saints SEMH Secondary School | Neilcott Construction Limited | £8.8m |
| 29 Oct 2026 | 1 | Corporate Cleaning Agreement | Ybc Cleaning Services Ltd | £3.4m |
| 30 Nov 2026 | 2 | Specialist Printing for Electoral Services | Civica Election Services Limited | £600,000 |
| 30 Jan 2027 | 4 | HR and payroll solution | MHR International UK Limited | £526,489 |
| 30 Nov 2026 | 2 | Transformation Partner | IMPOWER Consulting Ltd | £397,000 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Bracknell Forest 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Jul 2026 | Cabinet Decision Report- Strategic Procurement Plan Casualty TenderUtilising the public sector procurement framework YPO Dynamic Purchasing System gives access to pre-qualified insurance providers, which is expected to exceed the response to the Council’s tender from suppliers, in this very limited market, compared to a fully open procedure… | Cabinet |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Short Breaks Procurement Plan Cabinet covering report 23-06-2026The proposed procurement of this service through a single stage tender will help maximise tender opportunities that should generate value for money and high-quality Short Breaks provision. | Cabinet |
| 2 Sep 2026 | Future Delivery of a Care Contract at Heathlands Care Centre – Contract Award Decision | Cabinet Member for Adults, Economy and Regeneration, Executive Director: People, Executive Director: Resources |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Decision 12 - Strategic ProcurementThe Strategic Procurement Plan sets out how the proposed Capital Works Framework will meet the Council’s value for money and transparency objectives through a compliant competitive procurement process and a strengthened commercial model, providing improved cost certainty and assurance. | Cabinet |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Configurable Low-Code platform procurement - Cabinet report (1)Re-procurement is required to maintain service continuity, legal and licensing compliance, and the Council’s wider digital transformation and operational resilience. | Cabinet |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Omni-Channel Customer Contact Platform Procurement - Cabinet reportAs Cabinet Member, I am bringing forward this report to support approval for the reprocurement of the Council’s Omni-Channel Customer Contact Platform, helping to ensure residents continue to receive accessible, reliable and efficient services across telephony and digital channels. | Cabinet |
| 27 Aug 2026 | The Pines School - Remodelling Project Procurement Plan | Cabinet Member for Children, Young People and Health |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Covering Report - Councillor Learning and Development FrameworkAll expenditure must also be agreed and commissioned through the council’s normal officer led financial and procurement controls. | Governance & Audit 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 Bracknell Forest 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 Bracknell Forest. 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 Bracknell Forest's own published papers, at https://bracknell-forest.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 Bracknell Forest'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.