East Suffolk: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
East Suffolk is a district council in the East of England. We hold 303 of its award notices, 34 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 East Suffolk's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 218 of those 303 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at East Suffolk, 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 |
|---|---|
| 22 Sep 2026 | Anglia Revenues and Benefits Partnership Joint Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Licensing Sub-Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Planning Committee South |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Full Council |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Community Partnership Board |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every East Suffolk 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd | £38.3m | 2 |
| Opus People Solutions | £5.8m | 3 |
| Hampshire Scientific Service | £5.5m | 1 |
| P J Spillings (Builders) Ltd | £5.3m | 5 |
| SEH French | £4.3m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards East Suffolk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master Developer for the North Quay Riverside Regeneration, Great Yarmouth - AWARD | Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd | £1.5m | Competitive dialog |
| GB-Woodbridge: TPPL East Suffolk Council NEPO HGV Lot 1 - 4 x 26t Narrow RCVs (31834) | Dennis Eagle Limited | £1.0m | Not specified |
| ESC MRI Housing System | Mri Software Limited | £956,655 | Framework call-off |
| East Suffolk Housing Pathway Re-tender - AWARD3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £425,388 | Open |
| Replacement Wheeled Bins for ESC Residents - AWARD | Contenur UK Limited | £355,500 | Restricted |
How the money is awarded
43% of East Suffolk's awarded value went through open competition and 4% 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.
- Framework/DPS 47% (£58.2m)
- Competed 43% (£52.3m)
- Other/Unspecified 6% (£6.8m)
- Direct 4% (£5.4m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for East Suffolk, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Jul 2027 | 9 | Heating Servicing, Repairs and Maintenance Works- Award of contract | Gasway Services Limited | £3.5m |
| 1 Apr 2027 | 6 | Master Developer for the North Quay Riverside Regeneration, Great Yarmouth - AWARD | Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd | £1.5m |
| 31 Dec 2027 | 15 | Light fleet leasing | Venson Automotive Solutions Ltd | £1.2m |
| 1 Sep 2027 | 11 | Fire Alarm & Warden Call Systems Upgrades - AWARD | OpenView Security Solutions Limited | £1.0m |
| 1 Nov 2026 | 1 | Gateway to Homechoice: Choice Based Letting Software - AWARD | Civica UK Limited | £532,500 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers East Suffolk 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2026 | Review of Temporary Accommodation Procurement and Placement Strategy 2026-2029By approving the Temporary Accommodation Procurement and Placement Strategy, the Council will be making a commitment to implement a more planned, proactive and financially sustainable approach to the provision of temporary accommodation. | Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 14 Jul 2026 | ES-2863 Procurement Strategy 2024-2028 Second Progress ReportEast Suffolk Council’s Procurement Team is working to expand Social Value in its procurement processes. | Cabinet |
| 27 Aug 2026 | Draft Pride in Place Financial Governance Framework - revised draft…as the grant recipient, the Accountable Body will establish and maintain appropriate financial, legal, audit, risk management, procurement, and monitoring arrangements to ensure that all programme activity is delivered in accordance with government guidance, funding conditions, and relevant statutory requirements. | Pride in Place - Felixstowe West |
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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 East Suffolk 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 East Suffolk. 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 East Suffolk's own published papers, at https://eastsuffolk.cmis.uk.com/eastsuffolk. 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 East Suffolk'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.