Leicester City: who supplies it, and how much it awards without a contest.
Leicester City is a unitary authority in the East Midlands. We hold 4,670 of its award notices, 481 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 2 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 Leicester City's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 4,321 of those 4,670 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
Scheduled meetings at Leicester City, 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 Leicester City 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Total Energies Gas & Power Ltd | £67.0m | 2 |
| Medequip Assistive Technology Limited | £42.0m | 2 |
| Reed Specialist Recruitment Limited | £35.0m | 1 |
| Turning Point (Services) Ltd | £33.6m | 4 |
| Lovell Partnerships Limited | £31.2m | 4 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Leicester City 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| PAN2897 - Housing Stores Materials Suppliers Framework Agreement | Travis Perkins | £24.8m | Other |
| PAN3230 - Stocking Farm Housing Scheme | Clegg Construction Limited | £18.8m | Restricted |
| PAN2697 - Gas Supply | Total Energies Gas & Power Ltd | £17.0m | Other |
| SCE0079 - Mini Tender for Enablement Supported Living Services for People with Learning Disabil…2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £5.4m | Restricted |
| PAN2973 - Electrical Repairs in LCC Domestic & Non-Domestic Properties City Wide2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £5.0m | Other |
How the money is awarded
67% of Leicester City's awarded value went through open competition and 20% 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 67% (£772m)
- Direct 20% (£235m)
- Other/Unspecified 13% (£150m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Leicester City, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Oct 2026 | under 1 | PAN2916 - Construction Framework7 award notices, shown once | framework, 7 suppliers | £64.2m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | ASC0260 - Integrated Community Equipment Loans Service | Medequip Assistive Technology Limited | £42.0m |
| 12 Mar 2027 | 5 | PAN3112 - UHL Hospital Close - Works - Phase 2 | Lovell Partnerships Limited | £20.3m |
| 31 Oct 2026 | 1 | PAN3116 - Carriageway Surfacing 2024 Framework4 award notices, shown once | framework, 4 suppliers | £20.0m |
| 20 Dec 2027 | 15 | PAN3230 - Stocking Farm Housing Scheme | Clegg Construction Limited | £18.8m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Leicester City 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep 2026 | SEND Reform Plan CYP Scrutiny Commission Sept 26 | Children, Young People and Education Scrutiny Commission |
| 7 Sep 2026 | RRA Update Sept 2026 - Housing Scrutiny Commission | Housing Scrutiny Commission |
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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 Leicester City 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 Leicester. 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 Leicester City's own published papers, at https://cabinet.leicester.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 Leicester'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.