Norwich: who supplies it, and how much it awards without a contest.
Norwich is a district council in the East of England. We hold 158 of its award notices, 19 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 Norwich's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 139 of those 158 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Norwich, 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 | Regulatory sub committee |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Regulatory sub committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Norwich area museums committee |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Cabinet |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Norwich 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Norwich City Services Limited | £76.6m | 1 |
| Gasway Services Limited | £22.4m | 18 |
| Aspect Group Services Limited | £7.1m | 5 |
| Norwich City Council | £5.7m | 1 |
| Dodd Group (Eastern) Limited | £5.5m | 4 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Norwich 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheltered Housing Refurbishment | Bell Group UK Limited | £395,000 | Framework call-off |
| QS and CA for Livestock Market Relocation | Oxbury & Company Limited | £373,440 | Framework call-off |
| Norwich City Council Capital Works2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | not stated | Restricted |
How the money is awarded
6% of Norwich's awarded value went through open competition and 54% 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.
- Direct 54% (£82.8m)
- Framework/DPS 40% (£61.4m)
- Competed 6% (£9.0m)
- Other/Unspecified under 1% (£235,000)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Norwich, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | NRW/ENV/9211/P | Norwich City Services Limited | £76.6m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Support Services | Norwich City Council | £5.7m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Fire Risk Assessments (Compliance) 2023 to 2027 | Tersus Consultancy Limited | £3.3m |
| 30 Apr 2027 | 7 | Mile Cross Enabling Works | Ovamill Limited | £1.9m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Asbestos surveys (Compliance) 2023 to 2027 (Supplier 2) | Pennington Choices Limited | £1.5m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Norwich 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 29 Jul 2026 | Council Energy and Water Utilities ProcurementProcuring renewable electricity is therefore cost-effective and represents a significant carbon saving at an additional cost of around £24,000 for the 2026/27 12-month electricity contract term, equating to approximately £10 per tonne of CO₂. | Cabinet |
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Where Norwich 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 Norwich. 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 Norwich's own published papers, at https://cmis.norwich.gov.uk/live. 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 Norwich'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.