Liverpool: who supplies it, and how much it awards without a contest.
Liverpool is a metropolitan borough in the North West. We hold 1,261 of its award notices, 101 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 7 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 Liverpool's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 971 of those 1,261 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Liverpool, 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 | Adult Social Care & Health Scrutiny Committee |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Licensing & Gambling Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Planning Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Sustainable, Safe & Thriving Neighbourhoods Scrutiny Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Culture & Economy Scrutiny Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Liverpool 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Click Travel Ltd | £171m | 5 |
| Change Grow Live Services Ltd | £125m | 2 |
| Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | £51.3m | 2 |
| Huyton Asphalt Ltd | £48.4m | 9 |
| Dowhigh Limited | £40.9m | 8 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Liverpool 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interim and Temporary Accommodation | Perk UK Ltd | £90.0m | Direct award |
| Corporate Security Services | Carlisle Security Services Limited | £24.0m | Open |
| DN805202 Further Competition under ICT Services Software Framework DN757985; Microsoft Enterpri… | Phoenix Software Limited | £12.0m | Other |
| Liverpool City Council ERP Solution_25 | Ernst & Young LLP | £7.5m | Other |
| Contractor to Deliver the Warm Homes Local Grant Funding (WHLG) | Next Energy Ltd | £5.9m | Other |
How the money is awarded
51% of Liverpool's awarded value went through open competition and 33% 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 51% (£628m)
- Direct 33% (£409m)
- Other/Unspecified 16% (£203m)
- Framework/DPS under 1% (£87,783)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Liverpool, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Feb 2028 | 16 | First Stage Emergency Accommodation including a Travel Managed Service2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £80.0m |
| 5 Oct 2026 | under 1 | Highways Professional Services Framework19 award notices, shown once | framework, 19 suppliers | £40.0m |
| 30 Nov 2026 | 2 | Refugee Resettlement Services Framework 2022 - 2028 | Refugee Action | £14.3m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | Child Advocacy Barrister Services_24 | Keyventure Ltd | £8.4m |
| 31 Oct 2026 | 1 | Flexible Purchasing System: Care and Support in Extra Care Housing and Local Communitie… | Comfort Call Limited | £4.7m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Liverpool 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Sep 2026 | Production Printers - Contract AwardOutcome of options appraisal - supported by soft market testing, concluded that a direct award to Canon UK represents the most appropriate procurement route and delivers best value for money to the Council. | Cabinet |
| 14 Jul 2026 | Contract Award to Christmas Market Operator 2026 - 2031 (NH.76.26)Report Summary This report is seeking approval to award two contracts following a competitive tender exercise undertaken by Liverpool City Council (the Council) to identify a third-party Christmas Market Operator(s). | Cabinet |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Extra Care Housing – Care and Support Commissioning UpdateA competitive procurement process will commence in July 2026, with contract award subject to Cabinet approval in November 2026. | Adult Social Care & Health Scrutiny Committee |
| 15 Sep 2026 | Leisure Management IT System - contract award | Cabinet |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Care at Home CommissioningAs the Council progresses its vision and ambitions, and to ensure compliance with contract and procurement legislation, there is now a requirement to recommission Care at Home services. | Adult Social Care & Health Scrutiny Committee |
| 10 Jun 2026 | CM 5Year Clinical Strategic Commissioning Plan 110226 Post Board…data platforms, tools and services Enablers: Digital and Data Our 5-Year Clinical and Strategic Commissioning Plan 2026/2031 Ensure all parts of our health and care system deliver the digital and data requirements outlined in the NHS Medium Term Planning Framework. | Liverpool Health & Wellbeing 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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool. 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 Liverpool's own published papers, at https://councillors.liverpool.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 Liverpool'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.