Cumberland Council: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Cumberland Council is a unitary authority in the North West. We hold 2,092 of its award notices, 70 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 9 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 Cumberland Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 717 of those 2,092 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Cumberland 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 | People Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Joint Executive Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | South Cumberland Community Panel |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Place Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Cumberland 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 |
|---|---|---|
| DSD Construction Ltd | £50.0m | 2 |
| Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure Ltd | £19.5m | 2 |
| Bellcare Domiciliary Care Services Ltd | £18.7m | 86 |
| Cera Care Operations Ltd | £18.7m | 65 |
| Livingways Care Services | £18.7m | 4 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Cumberland 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Construction of light industrial units at the Leconfield Industrial Estate, Cleator Moor. | Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure Ltd | £18.6m | Direct award |
| Microsoft ESA & SCE Renewal | Phoenix Software Ltd | £7.2m | Open |
| Workington Gateway Stage 2 | Story Contracting Limited | £3.5m | Open |
| CWF Lot 2B C76 Durranhill Viaduct C1045 - Remedial Works | Metcalfe Plant Hire | £921,436 | Other |
| G-Cloud 14 Call-Off Contract: Electronic Rostering System for Reablement | Totalmobile Ltd | £805,600 | Open |
How the money is awarded
86% of Cumberland Council'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 86% (£678m)
- Other/Unspecified 12% (£95.2m)
- Direct 2% (£19.2m)
- Framework/DPS under 1% (£72,000)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Cumberland 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 Mar 2027 | 6 | Provision of Core Surfacing 2024- 2027 | DSD Construction Ltd | £50.0m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Reactive, Statutory and Planned Maintenance for Corporate Properties7 award notices, shown once | framework, 7 suppliers | £20.0m |
| 26 Nov 2027 | 14 | Construction of light industrial units at the Leconfield Industrial Estate, Cleator Moo… | Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure Ltd | £18.6m |
| 29 Feb 2028 | 17 | ESPO 653F_23 Further competition Lot 1B - Managed Service Provider for Temporary Agency… | Randstad | £16.0m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Provision of Wave 6 and Wave 7 Skills Bootcamps16 award notices, shown once | framework, 16 suppliers | £4.8m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Cumberland 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Jul 2026 | Permission to Procure Core Surfacing Contract 2027 - 2033The opportunity will be advertised on Find a Tender, with the procurement documents made freely accessible via The Chest (the Council’s procurement portal). | Executive |
| 20 Jul 2026 | Update on Contract Award Decisions for Hosted Services…to or less than £500,000, an officer may take a decision to commence procurement or to award a contract where the Monitoring Officer and Section 151 Officer for each authority, and the relevant director of the Receiving Authority for the… | Joint Executive Committee |
| 26 May 2026 | Review of regional commissioning arrangements – Delegation of Decision MakingBeing party to a framework agreement does not place a commitment on the Local Authority to a level of spend (or exclusivity) however to provide some context in relation to projected spend, the combined 25/26 forecasted spend for fostering, residential… | Executive |
| 28 Jul 2026 | 7 - Care Quality Commission Assessment Framework for Local Authorities - UpdateContribution to the Cumberland Plan Priorities Alignment to CQC Assurance Framework provides assurance that Adult Social Care activity contributes strongly to the Cumberland Plan priority of health and wellbeing at the heart of everything that we do. | People Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 28 Jul 2026 | 7 - Care Quality Commission Assessment Framework for Local Authorities - Presenation | People Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Community Engagement Framework and ToolkitMembers may agree to introduce the revised framework and toolkit but do not provide formal training, advice or supporting resources. | Executive |
| 8 Jun 2026 | Risk Management FrameworkThe Risk Management Framework and supporting guidance were first approved by the Audit and Risk Committee on 21st August 2023, with annual reviews reported to the Committee. | Audit and Risk 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
Where Cumberland 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 Cumberland. 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 Cumberland Council's own published papers, at https://cumberland.moderngov.co.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 Cumberland'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.