Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority is a combined authority in the East of England. We hold 387 of its award notices, 8 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 7 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 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 298 of those 387 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, 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 |
|---|---|
| 23 Sep 2026 | Combined Authority Board |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Funding Committee |
| 2 Nov 2026 | Funding Committee |
| 3 Nov 2026 | Growth Committee |
| 4 Nov 2026 | Transport Committee |
Source: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Warmworks | £78.0m | 1 |
| IRIS Software Limited | £13.3m | 1 |
| E.On Energy Solutions Ltd | £11.3m | 1 |
| Unicard Limited | £9.5m | 1 |
| Cornernstone (East Anglia) Limited | £4.4m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Local Bus Services June 20254 award notices, shown once | framework, 4 suppliers | £3.7m | Open |
| Adult Skills and Learning DPS - RM63483 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £2.1m | Other |
| Skills Bootcamps - Wave 65 award notices, shown once | framework, 5 suppliers | £273,315 | Other |
| Local Net Zero Accelerator finance consultancy and training development services | Living Places Earth Limited | £131,750 | Restricted |
| Review of Implementation Pathways for Bus Franchising Scheme | Steer Davies Gleave | £100,000 | Other |
How the money is awarded
70% of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority's awarded value went through open competition and 9% was awarded directly. A further 21% 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 70% (£133m)
- Other/Unspecified 21% (£38.8m)
- Direct 9% (£16.8m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | HRIS 2024 | IRIS Software Limited | £13.3m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | ITSO Host Operated Processing System (HOPS) | Unicard Limited | £9.5m |
| 4 Sep 2027 | 11 | CPCA - Adult Education Budget (AEB)17 award notices, shown once | framework, 17 suppliers | £4.5m |
| 2 Jan 2027 | 3 | Business Growth and Social Impact Investment Fund Management2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £500,010 |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Skills Bootcamps - Wave 65 award notices, shown once | framework, 5 suppliers | £273,315 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority 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 | Tiger on Demand Reprocurement…and the Chief Finance Officer, to take all necessary steps to finalise the procurement, award and enter into contracts, and make any minor amendments required to give effect to the approved approach, subject to affordability, legal compliance and statutory requirements. | Transport Committee |
| 25 Jun 2026 | Procurement UpdateContract Management and better oversight The Procurement team have recently implemented a new e-tendering portal which includes more oversight across the organisation and improve contract management. | Audit and Governance Committee |
| 9 Sep 2026 | Capital Transport Programme – Prioritisation FrameworkRecommendations: A Note the progress and approach to developing the Capital Transport Programme’s Prioritisation Framework. | Transport Committee |
| 15 Jul 2026 | Gateway Review Final ReportThe Gateway Review findings link to all strategic projects based on evaluation of a wide range of interventions funded by the Investment Fund (‘Gainshare funding’, worth £600m over 30 years), and the process by which interventions were agreed and implemented. | Combined Authority Board |
| 14 Sep 2026 | Adult Skills Commissioning Strategy V3 2025-2028Recommendations: The Committee is asked to recommend that the Combined Authority Board: A Approve the revised Adult Skills Commissioning Strategy 2025-2028, attached at Appendix A, as the strategic framework for commissioning devolved adult skills funding within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. | Skills Committee |
| 10 Sep 2026 | Monitoring and Evaluation Framework ReviewThis may include costs relating to commissioning evaluation and staff training which will be met from within available resources. | Audit and Governance 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 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority 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 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. 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 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority's own published papers, at https://democracy.cambridgeshirepeterborough-ca.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 Cambridgeshire and Peterborough'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.