Merton: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Merton is a London borough. We hold 739 of its award notices, and 50 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 Merton's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 532 of those 739 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Merton, 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 | Cabinet |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Health and Wellbeing Board |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Governance Standards and Audit Committee |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Joint Consultative Committee with Ethnic Minority Organisations |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Merton 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Veolia Environmental Services | £205m | 2 |
| Lloyds Bank Cardnet | £156m | 1 |
| Comensura | £68.0m | 2 |
| Caterlink | £48.6m | 2 |
| SmartestEnergy Ltd | £22.0m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Merton 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| School Meals Catering Service | Caterlink | £30.0m | Open |
| Agency worker contract for merton - 1 year MStar 4 via direct award | Comensura Ltd | £20.0m | Direct award |
| Merton Adult Learning Main Delivery Service | South Thames Colleges Group | £4.0m | Open |
| LB Merton Microsoft Enterprise Agreement 2026 | Phoenix Software Ltd | £2.7m | Open |
| Merton Community Dementia services | Alzheimers Society | £2.5m | Open |
How the money is awarded
91% of Merton'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 91% (£681m)
- Direct 7% (£49.7m)
- Other/Unspecified 3% (£21.4m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Merton, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Feb 2027 | 5 | Merchant Services | Lloyds Bank Cardnet | £156m |
| 12 Dec 2026 | 2 | Agency worker contract for merton - 1 year MStar 4 via direct award | Comensura Ltd | £20.0m |
| 3 Sep 2027 | 11 | Provision of Educational Occupational Therapy2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £5.7m |
| 1 Apr 2027 | 6 | Corporate Cleaning Services | Birkin Cleaning Services Limited | £4.9m |
| 1 Apr 2027 | 6 | Environmental Enforcement | Kingdom Services Group Limited | £2.6m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Merton 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. Merton published 123 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 Merton 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 Merton. 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 Merton's own published papers, at https://democracy.merton.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 Merton'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.