Milton Keynes City Council: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Milton Keynes City Council is a unitary authority in the South East. We hold 3,526 of its award notices, 64 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 9 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 Milton Keynes City Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 375 of those 3,526 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Milton Keynes City Council, 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 |
|---|---|
| 22 Sep 2026 | Audit Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Delegated Decisions |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Health, Housing & Adults Scrutiny Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | South Midlands Authorities Board |
Source: Milton Keynes City Council's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Milton Keynes City Council 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mears Limited | £130m | 2 |
| John Graham Construction Ltd, Trading as GRAHAM | £71.8m | 2 |
| Graham Group Limited | £70.6m | 1 |
| Ashe Construction Ltd | £29.4m | 8 |
| Hw Martin Holdings Limited | £14.0m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Milton Keynes City Council 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| MKCC Fire Door Replacements - AWARD | Bell Group Ltd | £13.9m | Open |
| Schools Capital Maintenance Programme and Professional Services 2027-2032 | Baily Garner | £1.0m | Framework call-off |
| Western Expansion Area South Primary School Works - AWARD | Willmott Dixon Construction | £683,569 | Other |
| Demolition of REEMA Housing blocks - AWARD | DDS Demolition | £614,748 | Other |
| Housing Income Data Analytics System (Call off from RM1557.14 - G-Cloud 14) | Mobysoft Limited | £450,765 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
47% of Milton Keynes City Council's awarded value went through open competition and 1% 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 47% (£225m)
- Framework/DPS 43% (£205m)
- Other/Unspecified 9% (£41.1m)
- Direct 1% (£2.8m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Milton Keynes City Council, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Feb 2028 | 16 | Management and Operation of the Community Recycling Centres | Hw Martin Holdings Limited | £14.0m |
| 21 Aug 2027 | 11 | MKCC Fire Door Replacements - AWARD | Bell Group Ltd | £13.9m |
| 30 Jun 2027 | 9 | Purchase and distribution of Wheeled Bins - AWARD | One 51 E/s Plastics t/a Mgb Plastics | £6.1m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Demand Responsive Transport Service - AWARD | ViaVan | £5.4m |
| 7 Apr 2027 | 6 | Rough Sleeper Housing Support Services - Integrated Floating Support - AWARD | Connection Floating Support | £3.2m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Milton Keynes City Council 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 | Recommissioning Education Software Solution…Wards affected All wards Executive summary This report seeks approval to commence a procurement exercise for the provision, support and maintenance of the Council's Education Software solution for five years from 1 April 2028, and to delegate authority to award… | Delegated Decisions |
| 21 Jul 2026 | Domestic Abuse Services TenderThe quantum of the tender is estimated at £7.5m over the contract term (five+ two years). | Delegated Decisions |
| 11 Aug 2026 | Bus Franchising Assessment - Procurement of Specialist Consultancy Services…the subject of this decision - to consider approving the commencement of a procurement exercise, and delegate the award of specialist consultancy services, to undertake a detailed bus franchising assessment funded through a £1 million grant awarded by the Department… | Delegated Decisions |
| 28 Jul 2026 | Fleet Procurement for Minibuses and Accessible VehiclesThe tender document will be requesting social value benefits from prospective suppliers. | Delegated Decisions |
| 25 Aug 2026 | The Procurement of Build Works to allow Buildings to Connect to a Heat NetworkFor this section of the project, the Council are looking to procure a contractor to undertake retrofit works within the specified buildings to optimise the building heating and hot water systems to operate at lower flow and return temperatures, ahead… | Delegated Decisions |
| 28 Jul 2026 | Procurement of New Parking ContractThe Council must undertake a compliant procurement process for a new contractor to supply parking enforcement and other associated services and systems including software systems and equipment that is due to expire. | Delegated Decisions |
| 1 Sep 2026 | Procurement of Demolition WorksThis report requests delegation of authority to award the contract/s following the procurement process. | Delegated Decisions |
| 21 Jul 2026 | Award of Contract for the Partial Delivery of Connect to Work in Milton KeynesThat approval to award a contract for the delivery of the Connect to Work Programme (outsourced provision) following completion of an Open Tender procurement process, be agreed. | Delegated Decisions |
| 15 Sep 2026 | Adult Mental Health Provider FrameworkThe procurement exercise has been undertaken to establish a multi-provider framework, and as described within this report, was subject to a competitive tender process. | Delegated Decisions |
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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 Milton Keynes City Council 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 Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes City Council's own published papers, at https://milton-keynes.moderngov.co.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 Milton Keynes'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.