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Isle of Wight: who supplies it, and how much it awards without a contest.

Isle of Wight is a unitary authority in the South East. We hold 491 of its award notices, 56 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 4 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)

491
Award notices on record, 2021 to 2026
264
Distinct suppliers
£103m
Total awarded value, 2021 to 2026
308
Papers read in four months
11
Committees tracked

GovLeads reads Isle of Wight's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 369 of those 491 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.

Next committee meetings

The next 5 scheduled meetings at Isle of Wight, taken from the council's own calendar. Papers usually appear five clear working days beforehand, and we read them the night they land.

Source: Isle of Wight's published committee calendar.

Biggest suppliers

Ranked by total awarded value across every Isle of Wight 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.

SupplierAwarded valueAwards
MCM Construction Ltd£13.3m23
Phoenix Software Ltd£5.8m9
Morgan Sindall Construction and Infrastructure Ltd£5.2m3
Van Oord Uk£5.0m1
SSE Energy£3.9m3

Largest awards of the last 12 months

The biggest awards Isle of Wight 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.

AwardSupplierValueRoute
Insurances for Isle of Wight Council3 award notices, shown onceframework, 3 suppliers£6.0mOther
Microsoft Enterprise ContractsPhoenix Software Ltd£2.1mOther
ICT - Microsoft Licences (Microsoft Enterprise Agreement) via CCS Microsoft Aggregation NFC157Phoenix Software Ltd£1.7mOther
Agile Working EquipmentStone Technologies Ltd£651,232Other
Investment Consultancy Advisory ServicesHymans Robertson LLP£540,000Direct award

How the money is awarded

43% of Isle of Wight's awarded value went through open competition and 24% was awarded directly. A further 33% sits on notices that do not state a route at all. 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 43% (£43.9m)
  • Other/Unspecified 33% (£34.1m)
  • Direct 24% (£25.2m)

Contracts expiring within 18 months

The 5 largest by value on record for Isle of Wight, 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.

EndsMonths leftContractSupplierValue
31 Jul 202710Childrens Residential PlacementLoddon School£1.4m
30 Jun 20279Cleaning Services for the Isle of Wight Councilnviro limited£1.0m
31 Mar 20276Support and Maintenance of the Education Management System (EMS) for the Isle of Wight…Capita Business Services Limited (Capita Plc)£787,600
25 Sep 202712Mainland Residential Placement 219527Marula Lodge Limited t/a Marula Lodge (Cornerstone Healthcare)£568,100
31 May 20278Provision of Body Movement (Lot 6) and Coroner Transfers (Lot 7)The Southern Cooperative£359,640

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Procurement radar

Committee papers Isle of Wight 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.

4 of 308 papers, in Isle of Wight’s own words
MeetingPaperCommittee
12 Aug 2026Committee Report Procurement and Contract Award Early Intervention and Prevention ServiceIn developing this tender, we have fully engaged and consulted with both the Council’s Legal Services and Procurement Team to ensure that the proposed tendering approach, timelines, and documentation are compliant with all relevant legislative and procedural requirements.Children's Services, Education and Skills Committee
27 Jul 20268a. Procurement Half-Yearly ReportThese risks are mitigated with the involvement of the Procurement Team in all procurements valued over £30,000 (inc.Audit and Governance Committee
4 Jun 20269. The Local SEND Reform Plan Quality Assessment Framework - March 2026Clear governance framework with defined roles, responsibilities, and processes.Schools Forum
4 Jun 20261. Commission Letter - Local SEND Reform Plan_ Isle of WightWe are commissioning each local area partnership to develop and submit a Local SEND Reform Plan in June 2026, underpinned by a Local Partnership Maturity Assessment.Schools Forum

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Where Isle of Wight 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 Isle of Wight. 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 Isle of Wight's own published papers, at https://iow.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 Isle of Wight'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.

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