Braintree: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Braintree is a district council in the East of England. We hold 226 of its award notices, and 16 contracts due to end within 18 months. 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 Braintree's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 156 of those 226 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Braintree, 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 | Council |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Licensing Committee |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Cabinet |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Braintree District Local Highways Panel |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Braintree 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dunmow Skips | £5.6m | 3 |
| SEH French | £5.0m | 2 |
| Bartec Auto ID Ltd | £2.6m | 3 |
| Dennis Eagle Limited | £2.5m | 2 |
| Yotta Ltd | £2.2m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Braintree 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB-Braintree: TPPL Braintree District Council NEPO GM & P Lot 1 - 18 x Various GMP Equipment (N… | Ernest Doe & Sons Limited | £679,312 | Not specified |
| Delivery of Refurbishment Works at Multiple Sites | Property 360 Ltd | £665,180 | Framework call-off |
| HEATING SYSTEM UPGRADES | Property 360 Ltd | £658,422 | Framework call-off |
| EPP0216-L10 Braintree District Council - Recycling & Refuse Sacks [ESPO 860_22 - Lot 10] | Cromwell Polythene Limited | £317,613 | Other |
| EPP0143 Delivery of Refurbishment Works in the Braintree DistrictHide | Re-Gen (UK) Construction Limited | £210,632 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
76% of Braintree's awarded value went through open competition and under 1% 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% (£78.8m)
- Other/Unspecified 17% (£17.6m)
- Framework/DPS 7% (£7.4m)
- Direct under 1% (£248,174)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Braintree, 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 Jan 2028 | 16 | Cleaning and Hygiene Supplies National Framework Agreement5 award notices, shown once | framework, 5 suppliers | £10.0m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Street Sweepings Arisings Framework Agreement | Dunmow Skips | £5.0m |
| 11 Nov 2027 | 13 | GB-Braintree: Hybrid Mail | CFH Docmail Limited | £1.0m |
| 1 Dec 2026 | 2 | Delivery of Refurbishment Works at Multiple Sites | Property 360 Ltd | £665,180 |
| 1 Dec 2026 | 2 | HEATING SYSTEM UPGRADES | Property 360 Ltd | £658,422 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Braintree published in the last four months whose title uses the language of buying.
No procurement decision reached a committee here in the last four months. Braintree published 11 papers in that window and none of them is titled as a tender, an award, an extension or a waiver.
That is common and it is not a gap in our reading: most councils delegate day-to-day buying to officers, and only the larger decisions reach a committee with a paper to their name. The award notices above are the fuller record of what this council actually buys.
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 Braintree 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 Braintree. 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 Braintree's own published papers, at https://braintree.cmis.uk.com/braintree. 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 Braintree'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.