King's Lynn and West Norfolk: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
King's Lynn and West Norfolk is a district council in the East of England. We hold 217 of its award notices, and 25 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 King's Lynn and West Norfolk's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 152 of those 217 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 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 | Council |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Regeneration and Development Panel |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Shareholder Committee |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Local Plan Task Group |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Planning Committee |
Source: King's Lynn and West Norfolk's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every King's Lynn and West Norfolk 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Messenger Construction Ltd | £20.3m | 2 |
| Chas D Allflatt Limited | £2.1m | 6 |
| Haworth Tompkins Ltd | £1.7m | 2 |
| Howarth Tomkins | £1.7m | 2 |
| T.M. Browne Limited | £1.5m | 3 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards King's Lynn and West Norfolk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St George's Guildhall & Creative Hubs Main Contractor | Messenger Construction Ltd | £20.3m | Restricted |
| Purchase of one van mounted access platform | Aldecote Limited | £94,860 | Framework call-off |
| Corporate Project Management Support | Greyfriars Project Management Ltd | £92,937 | Framework call-off |
| Appointment of Data Architect for Digital & ICT Strategy | Entec Si Ltd | £73,572 | Framework call-off |
| Purchase of Ford Transit 350 L3 Diesel RWD 2.0 Ecoblue 130PS Trend Chassis Cab | Lookers Motor Group Ltd | £62,036 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
90% of King's Lynn and West Norfolk's awarded value went through open competition and 0% 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 90% (£49.1m)
- Framework/DPS 7% (£3.7m)
- Other/Unspecified 4% (£1.9m)
- Direct 0% (not stated)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 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 2026 | 3 | Care & Repair Aids & Adaptations Framework Agreement10 award notices, shown once | framework, 10 suppliers | £14.0m |
| 8 Jan 2028 | 15 | Architect-led Multi-Disciplined Design Team for Guildhall Redevelopment Project | Howarth Tomkins | £1.7m |
| 15 Jun 2027 | 8 | Project Management & Quantity Surveying Services of Regeneration Projects2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £1.6m |
| 30 Jun 2027 | 9 | Advice and Information Services2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £330,000 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Software Systems - Housing, Environmental & Planning Solutions | Idox Software Ltd | £264,967 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers King's Lynn and West Norfolk 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. King's Lynn and West Norfolk published 206 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
Where King's Lynn and West Norfolk 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 Kings Lynn and West Norfolk. 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 King's Lynn and West Norfolk's own published papers, at https://democracy.west-norfolk.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 Kings Lynn and West Norfolk'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.