Middlesbrough: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Middlesbrough is a unitary authority in the North East. We hold 775 of its award notices, 44 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 1 committee paper 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 Middlesbrough's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 534 of those 775 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Middlesbrough, 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 | Children's Scrutiny Panel |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Executive Member Adult Social Care |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Licensing Sub Committee A |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Live Well South Tees Board |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Licensing Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Middlesbrough 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Galliford Try Construction Limited | £18.0m | 1 |
| Lane Rental Services Ltd | £3.8m | 5 |
| Walter Thompson (Contractors) Ltd | £3.6m | 2 |
| ESH Construction Limited | £3.5m | 6 |
| Leo Group Limited (Bell Truck & Van BLS Truck & Van) | £3.3m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Middlesbrough 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GB-Middlesbrough: TPPL Middlesbrough Council NEPO HGV Lot 1 - 12 x 26t Refuse Collection Vehicl… | Leo Group Limited (Bell Truck & Van BLS Truck & Van) | £3.3m | Not specified |
| Purchase of 17 no. LGV Vehicles - TPPL Cars, Light and Medium Commercial Vehicles - LOT 2 Mini… | Toyota GB PLC | £657,009 | Framework call-off |
| GB-Middlesbrough: TPPL Middlesbrough Council HCC Lot 2 - 16 x LCVs (Various) (26661) | Toyota (GB) PLC | £616,354 | Not specified |
| Purchase of 16 no. LGV Vehicles - TPPL Cars, Light and Medium Commercial Vehicles - LOT 2 Mini… | Toyota GB PLC | £616,354 | Framework call-off |
| CCS RM6342 UK Booked National and International Business Travel | Clarity Travel Limited | £600,000 | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
49% of Middlesbrough'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 49% (£66.7m)
- Direct 20% (£27.1m)
- Other/Unspecified 19% (£26.7m)
- Framework/DPS 12% (£16.9m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Middlesbrough, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | TVMBCGAP071/2023 Green Waste Composting Service2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £2.7m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Manned Guarding, Keyholding, Mobile Patrols and CCTV Monitoring | Vistech Services Ltd | £2.5m |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 1 | Purchase of 17 no. LGV Vehicles - TPPL Cars, Light and Medium Commercial Vehicles - LOT… | Toyota GB PLC | £657,009 |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | Other Waste Processing Service3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £623,631 |
| 26 Oct 2026 | 1 | Purchase of 16 no. LGV Vehicles - TPPL Cars, Light and Medium Commercial Vehicles - LOT… | Toyota GB PLC | £616,354 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Middlesbrough 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Sep 2026 | Procurement Overview 2025/2026During 1st April 2025 and 31st March 2026, the Procurement Team have been involved and support service areas with 299 procurement activities that equate to approximately £26 million worth of contracts being awarded in the year. | Audit Committee |
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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 Middlesbrough 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 Middlesbrough. 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 Middlesbrough's own published papers, at https://moderngov.middlesbrough.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 Middlesbrough'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.