Dover: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Dover is a district council in the South East. We hold 88 of its award notices, and 10 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 Dover's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 74 of those 88 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Dover, 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 | Governance Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Regulatory Committee |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 2 Oct 2026 | Notice of Forthcoming Key Decisions |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Cabinet |
Source: Dover's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Dover 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mears Limited | £26.9m | 2 |
| ATKINSRÉALIS CONSULTANTS LTD (Faithful & Gould) | £1.2m | 1 |
| Business Stream Ltd | £933,140 | 1 |
| Jenner (Contractors) Ltd | £753,347 | 1 |
| Monitor Cleaning Services Ltd | £697,206 | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Dover 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supply of Water & Sewage Services | Business Stream Ltd | £933,140 | Framework call-off |
| Franking Machine, File Inserter and Postage | Francotyp-Postalia | £373,230 | Framework call-off |
| Provision of Asbestos Surveying, Sampling and Removal Services 2026 - 2027 | PA Group (UK) Ltd | £180,000 | Framework call-off |
| Election Management Software | FCS Software Solutions Ltd | £91,000 | Framework call-off |
| Provision of Preventative and Reactive Maintenance - Electrical Vehicle Charging Points 2026… | Connected Kerb Limited | £53,655 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
89% of Dover's awarded value went through open competition and 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 89% (£33.5m)
- Framework/DPS 10% (£4.0m)
- Direct 1% (£296,798)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Dover, 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 May 2027 | 8 | Electoral Print Service | Civica Election Services Limited | £240,107 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Provision of Asbestos Surveying, Sampling and Removal Services 2026 - 2027 | PA Group (UK) Ltd | £180,000 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Fire Alarm & Emergency Lighting Service & Maintenance 2024 - 2027 | PJC Electrical | £175,080 |
| 30 Dec 2026 | 3 | Term Maintenance Contract For Service and Maintenance of Door Entry Systems | Southern Antennae Ltd | £147,605 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Dover District Gang Mowing & Additional Cutting Service 2025 - 2027 | D B Horner | £75,750 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Dover 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. Dover published 240 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 Dover 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 Dover. 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 Dover's own published papers, at https://moderngov.dover.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 Dover'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.