Cornwall Council: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Cornwall Council is a unitary authority in the South West. We hold 788 of its award notices, 46 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 Cornwall Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 339 of those 788 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Cornwall Council, 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 | Central Sub-Area Planning Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Cabinet |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Licensing Act Sub Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Strategic Planning Committee |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Audit Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Cornwall Council 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arcadis LLP | £101m | 12 |
| Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd | £82.0m | 2 |
| Network Rail Infrastructure Limited | £31.7m | 3 |
| Swarco UK Limited | £30.2m | 4 |
| Integrated Transport Planning Ltd (ITP) | £28.0m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Cornwall Council 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CFRS Medium Rescue Pumps Procurement 2026 - National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) Framework Agree… | Emergency One (UK) Limited | £3.5m | Other |
| Creative Skills Bootcamps for Wave 6 (Lot 3 Skills Bootcamps)8 award notices, shown once | framework, 4 suppliers | £1.0m | Other |
| Adobe CCS ETLA | Bytes Software Services | £537,261 | Open |
| Geographical Gaps (Lot 1 - Adult Skills and /or Lot 2 Fee Courses For Jobs)3 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £493,445 | Other |
| Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme 2026 | Knowles Associates | £434,003 | Other |
How the money is awarded
75% of Cornwall Council's awarded value went through open competition and 10% 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 75% (£341m)
- Other/Unspecified 15% (£67.2m)
- Direct 10% (£45.8m)
- Framework/DPS under 1% (£1.7m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Cornwall Council, 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 2027 | 15 | Built Environment Professional Services 2 Framework BEPS2 | Arcadis LLP | £100m |
| 30 Nov 2027 | 14 | Oracle Cloud | Oracle Corporation UK Limited | £6.1m |
| 14 Dec 2027 | 15 | Multi-Function Devices (MFD) and a Print Management Solution | Vision Group (Holdings) Ltd | £1.7m |
| 27 Jun 2027 | 9 | Data Centre Infrastructure Replacement | XMA Limited | £1.4m |
| 14 Apr 2027 | 6 | Home to School Transport Programme | Edge Public Solutions | £1.3m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Cornwall Council 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Jun 2026 | Recommissioning of the Family Domestic Abuse Advisor Service (FDASA) - Report…authority to the Service Director for Children and Families, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder, Section 151 Officer and Monitoring Officer, to undertake the procurement process, award and enter into the contract, and implement the service from 1 January 2027.2. | Individual Decision Day |
| 29 Jul 2026 | 2027/28 Budget and MTFP Refresh - Strategic Framework, Transformation approach and Emerging Iss……the refreshed Medium -Term Financial Plan (MTFP) projections, that Cabinet agrees the strategic framework for budget setting moving forward and the approach to delivering transformation that will be used as the basis for the development of the draft budget to… | Cabinet |
| 27 May 2026 | Council Homes - CHL Management Agreement, Commissioning Plan and Decency update - ReportThe preferred option is to approve the Commissioning Plan and recommendations as drafted. | Individual Decision Day |
| 29 Jul 2026 | Valuing Local Framework - ReportThis reflects a principled commitment to full alignment with the Council's proposed Valuing Local Framework and its Adult Social Care Strategy 2022 –2026, anchored in the 'Maximising Independence' and 'Better Lives' commissioning strategies. | Cabinet |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Update on Cornwall Council's Care Quality Commission Adult Social Care Inspection outcome - Rep…That the outcome of the Care Quality Commission Adult Social Care inspection of Cornwall Council be noted. | Committee in Common between Cornwall Health and Wellbeing Board and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Partnership |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Highlight report from the Life Course Steering Groups and Integrated Commissioning Partnership… | Committee in Common between Cornwall Health and Wellbeing Board and the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Partnership |
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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 Cornwall Council 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 Cornwall. 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 Cornwall Council's own published papers, at https://democracy.cornwall.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 Cornwall'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.