Dartford: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Dartford is a district council in the South East. We hold 95 of its award notices, 12 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 2 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 Dartford's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 80 of those 95 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Dartford, 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 | Cabinet Advisory Panel B |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Cabinet |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Licensing Sub-Committee |
| 12 Oct 2026 | General Assembly of the Council |
| 15 Oct 2026 | Development Control Board |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Dartford 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fcc Environment Services (UK) Limited | £62.1m | 1 |
| Wightman & Parrish | £24.3m | 2 |
| Lyreco UK Limited | £24.3m | 2 |
| Office Essentials Limited | £24.3m | 2 |
| Bates Office Services Ltd | £24.3m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Dartford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dartford Town Centre Mixed Use Development 2026 - Consultancy Services | Academy Consulting Solutions Limited | £1.7m | Framework call-off |
| Dartford Town Centre Parking Study and Parking Strategy 2026 | Aecom Limited | £144,850 | Framework call-off |
| Service & Maintenance of Fire Alarms and Extinguishers Boroughwide 2026 | Turnkey Fire Services Ltd | £120,000 | Framework call-off |
| Greenhithe Medical Centre Project Management | Pulse Associates Limited | £93,088 | Framework call-off |
| GIS Enterprise Software 2026-2029 | ESRI UK Ltd | £90,684 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
98% of Dartford's awarded value went through open competition and under 1% 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 98% (£260m)
- Framework/DPS 2% (£5.4m)
- Direct under 1% (£196,829)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Dartford, 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 Oct 2027 | 13 | National Public Sector Workplace Supplies and Services Framework7 award notices, shown once | framework, 7 suppliers | £170m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | Dartford Civic Centre Lift Refurbishment and Maintenance | Guideline Lift Services Limited | £203,183 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Dartford Town Centre Parking Study and Parking Strategy 2026 | Aecom Limited | £144,850 |
| 26 Jan 2027 | 4 | Asbestos Consultancy Services 2025-2027 | PA Group UK | £130,000 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Unlocking and Locking of Parks, Open Spaces, Playgrounds and Public Conveniences 2025-2… | MPD FM Ltd | £111,821 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Dartford 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Jun 2026 | 4. Final Covering Report - Equality and Diversity Framework 2025-2028 - No commentsThat the Equality and Diversity Framework 2025–2028, attached as Appendix A to this report, be approved. | Cabinet |
Showing the 1 strongest matches of 2. This is the raw feed, not the brief: a subscriber gets the handful that match their business, scored, with the so-what written out. Start a free trial.
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 Dartford 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 Dartford. 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 Dartford's own published papers, at https://dartford.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 Dartford'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.