Halton: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Halton is a unitary authority in the North West. We hold 444 of its award notices, 38 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 Halton's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 346 of those 444 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Halton, 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 | Local Economy Policy and Performance Board |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Housing and Safer Policy and Performance Board |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Regulatory Sub Committee |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Taxi Licensing Sub Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Health and Social Care Policy and Performance Board |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Halton 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tarmac Trading Limited | £168m | 2 |
| PIC Children's Services Ltd | £168m | 2 |
| Good Foundations Ltd | £168m | 2 |
| Wates Construction Ltd | £29.0m | 1 |
| Langtree | £22.0m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Halton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| BBA HAPAS Approved Grouted Macadam Surfacing | Miles Macadam | £4.0m | DPS call-off |
| Retail Water and Wastewater Services | Anglian Water Business (National) | £3.0m | Direct award |
| Ashley High School Single Storey Extension to school with further classroom provision | Whitfield and Brown | £1.5m | Other |
| Bus Route Runcorn East to Runcorn Employment Sites (Circular) | Ashcroft Travel Ltd | £960,000 | DPS call-off |
| Service 62 Warrington to Halebank via Runcorn and Widnes | Warrington's Own Buses | £799,896 | DPS call-off |
How the money is awarded
81% of Halton's awarded value went through open competition and 8% 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 81% (£667m)
- Framework/DPS 10% (£83.3m)
- Direct 8% (£63.9m)
- Other/Unspecified 1% (£4.8m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Halton, 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 | Maintenance, Servicing and Works in Halton - Mechanical, Electrical and Building3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £22.0m |
| 20 Feb 2027 | 5 | Supply of energy and ancillary Services - Electricity | Edf | £5.6m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Street Lighting Unmetered Energy Supply | Sse Energy Supply Limited | £4.2m |
| 31 Dec 2026 | 3 | GROCERY, CHILLED, FRUIT, VEG AND ASSOCIATED PRODUCTS | Trevors Warehouses Ltd | £4.0m |
| 9 Jan 2028 | 15 | Retail Water and Wastewater Services | Anglian Water Business (National) | £3.0m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Halton 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Jun 2026 | Annual Report on Waivers of Procurement Standing OrdersThe total potential value of waivers approved in 2025/26 was approximately £6.8 million, some of which relate to contracts spanning multiple financial years. | Audit and Governance Board |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Draft Procurement Strategy 2026-2030RECOMMENDATION: That the Council’s Procurement Strategy 2026-2030 presented in the Appendix, be approved. | Audit and Governance Board |
| 18 Jun 2026 | Commissioning Strategy EIAConsider explicit and implicit aims The Adult Social Care Commissioning Strategy 2026-2029 sets out the Adult Directorate’s commissioning position for the coming three years. | Executive Board |
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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
Covering the same ground
Where Halton 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 Halton. 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 Halton's own published papers, at https://moderngov.halton.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 Halton'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.