Cheshire East: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Cheshire East is a unitary authority in the North West. We hold 1,181 of its award notices, 47 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 Cheshire East's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 837 of those 1,181 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Cheshire East, 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 | Licensing Sub Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Constitution Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | General Appeals Sub Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Adults Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Northern Planning Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Cheshire East 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Engie Services Limited | £97.0m | 1 |
| Comensura Ltd | £54.6m | 1 |
| FCC Waste Services (UK) Limited | £28.1m | 2 |
| Cheshire Peaks & Plains Housing Trust Ltd | £27.6m | 5 |
| Manchester & Cheshire Construction Co Ltd | £26.2m | 30 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Cheshire East 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Further Competition for the Development of Hollins View, Macclesfield | Cheshire Peaks & Plains Housing Trust Ltd | £10.7m | Open |
| NWCHL401 - Dairy House Farm, Structural Stabilisation and Remedial Works | Manchester & Cheshire Construction Co Ltd | £4.9m | Restricted |
| Lot 1 - Category B E Auctions Phase 9 W/C 24/11/20252 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £3.1m | Open |
| Lot 1 - Category C E Auctions Phase 9 W/C 24/11/20252 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £3.1m | Open |
| Further Competition for the Development of Hole Farm, Alderley Edge | Cheshire Peaks & Plains Housing Trust Ltd | £2.6m | Open |
How the money is awarded
52% of Cheshire East's awarded value went through open competition and 2% 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 52% (£321m)
- Framework/DPS 38% (£236m)
- Other/Unspecified 7% (£44.2m)
- Direct 2% (£13.5m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Cheshire East, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Mar 2027 | 6 | NWCHL401 - Dairy House Farm, Structural Stabilisation and Remedial Works | Manchester & Cheshire Construction Co Ltd | £4.9m |
| 31 Dec 2027 | 15 | Cheshire East All Age Carers Hub | Making Space | £3.9m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Contract for the Provision of Water and Wastewater Services | Anglian Water Business T/A Wave Utilities | £3.5m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | 24 063 - Supply and Installation of Level Access Showers | A&K Building Services Ltd | £3.0m |
| 31 Aug 2027 | 11 | Provision of Fresh Produce, Dairy Products and Baked Goods | Ralph Livesey Ltd | £2.7m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Cheshire East 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Sep 2026 | Cheshire East Growth, Investment and Regeneration Programme - Procurement of intelligent client…The report also proposes that Cabinet approves the commencement of a procurement process to develop regeneration proposals for Crewe town centre, with a focus on residential-led mixed use development. | Cabinet |
| 4 Jun 2026 | Strategic Leisure Commission Cabinet ReportThe contract award will be a decision for the Executive Director of Place and the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Communities and Engagement 38 The strategic commissioning must be designed to eliminate as much as possible the Council’s current annual… | Cabinet |
| 3 Sep 2026 | Performance Management Framework and fourth-quarter performance 2025/26 enc. 1Reasons for Recommendations 27 Cabinet is recommended to approve the Performance Management Framework (PMF) and Corporate KPIs, and consider the fourth quarter (Q4) 2025/26 performance report to ensure effective oversight of the Council’s progress in delivering the commitments set out… | Cabinet |
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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 Cheshire East 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 Cheshire East. 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 Cheshire East's own published papers, at https://moderngov.cheshireeast.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 Cheshire East'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.