Cherwell: what its committee papers say about buying, and who supplies it.
Cherwell is a district council in the South East. We hold 50 of its award notices, and 3 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 Cherwell's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 42 of those 50 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Cherwell, 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 |
|---|---|
| 24 Sep 2026 | Planning Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | General Licensing Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Licensing Acts Committee |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Audit and Governance Committee |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Executive |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Cherwell 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dennis Eagle Ltd | £3.6m | 1 |
| E W Beard Limited trading as Beard | £1.9m | 1 |
| Softcat plc | £870,695 | 1 |
| ANS Group | £771,840 | 1 |
| Connection Support | £480,000 | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Cherwell 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-Banbury: TPPL Cherwell District Council NEPO HGV Lot 3 - Up to 2 x Compact Sweepers (27130) | Bucher Municipal Ltd | £246,362 | Not specified |
| Leisure Centre Model Agency | Cherwell Leisure Limited | not stated | Direct award |
| Netcall | Netcall | not stated | Direct award |
| OXLEVI – EV Charging Infrastructure | EZ Charge Limited | not stated | Open |
How the money is awarded
33% of Cherwell's awarded value went through open competition and 10% was awarded directly. A further 57% 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 57% (£5.9m)
- Competed 33% (£3.4m)
- Direct 10% (£985,347)
- Framework/DPS under 1% (£26,126)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 3 largest by value on record for Cherwell, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Oct 2027 | 12 | Managed Cloud Support, Security Operation Centre and manged LAN/WAN | ANS Group | £771,840 |
| 23 Feb 2028 | 17 | SUPPLY AND INSTALLATION OF GENERAL AUDIO VISUAL EQUIPMENT | Pure Av Solutions | £33,611 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Translation Services | Language Empire | £29,882 |
Procurement radar
Committee papers Cherwell 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. Cherwell published 152 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 Cherwell 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 Cherwell. 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 Cherwell's own published papers, at https://modgov.cherwell.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 Cherwell'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.