Lancaster: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Lancaster is a district council in the North West. We hold 187 of its award notices, and 13 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 Lancaster's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 143 of those 187 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
Scheduled meetings at Lancaster, taken from the council's own calendar.
We could not reach the council's meeting calendar when this page was built. Nothing is listed here rather than guessed.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Lancaster 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eric Wright Construction | £30.0m | 1 |
| Hugh LS McConnell Ltd | £4.9m | 2 |
| Place Capital Group | £3.9m | 1 |
| Westhoughton Roofing & Pointing Services Ltd | £2.4m | 6 |
| Ivegate Renewable Energy | £2.0m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Lancaster 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liquid Fuels | Standard Fuel Oils Ltd | £511,000 | Restricted |
| Lancaster City Council,Mar26,C1,6,7,13&18-LCD Support Services | LCD Support Services Ltd | £307,150 | Restricted |
| Property Team Consultancy | Harrison Pitt Architects | £247,083 | Direct award |
| Asset Management Software | Civica Uk Limited | £194,022 | Direct award |
| Lot 5 - Purchase and Lease of Mini and Midi Sweeping and Cleaning | Aebi Schmidt UK Ltd | £189,164 | Open |
How the money is awarded
90% of Lancaster's awarded value went through open competition and 7% 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% (£57.9m)
- Direct 7% (£4.7m)
- Other/Unspecified 2% (£1.6m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Lancaster, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Food Waste Vehicles | Dennis Eagle LTD | £1.1m |
| 15 Feb 2027 | 4 | Lot 5 - Purchase and Lease of Mini and Midi Sweeping and Cleaning | Aebi Schmidt UK Ltd | £189,164 |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Fire Safety | JFN Integrated Solutions | £130,500 |
| 28 Jun 2027 | 9 | Provision of GIS software and services | Esri (UK) Limited | £103,398 |
| 31 Oct 2027 | 13 | Desk and meeting room booking software | Hubstar Systems Limited | £101,088 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Lancaster 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. Lancaster published 154 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 Lancaster 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 Lancaster. 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 Lancaster's own published papers, at https://committeeadmin.lancaster.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 Lancaster'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.