Oxford: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Oxford is a district council in the South East. We hold 392 of its award notices, 38 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 4 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 Oxford's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 212 of those 392 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Oxford, 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 | Licensing & Gambling Acts Casework Sub-Committee |
| 28 Sep 2026 | General Purposes Licensing Casework Sub-Committee |
| 30 Sep 2026 | General Purposes Licensing Casework Sub-Committee |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Council |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Planning - Oxford City Planning Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Oxford 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Marick Real Estate Limited | £48.8m | 2 |
| Specialist Computer Centres PLC | £20.0m | 1 |
| E W Beard Ltd | £13.2m | 2 |
| Asphalt Surfacing Limited | £3.5m | 2 |
| NKS Contracts (Central) Ltd | £2.2m | 4 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Oxford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical Rewires and Repairs framework - AWARD | NKS Contracts (Central) Ltd | £2.0m | Restricted |
| GB-Oxford: TPPL Oxford City Council HCC Lot 4 - 3 x Sub-Compact Sweepers (29335) | Aebi Schmidt UK Limited | £309,936 | Not specified |
| Strategic Brief Development and Feasibility - AWARD | Hawkins Brown Architecture Ltd | £177,900 | Restricted |
| Fully Managed Energy Bureau Services - AWARD | TEAM (Energy Auditing Agency Ltd.) | £150,233 | Restricted |
| VAT Recovery Services - AWARD | Julian Bloom VAT Consultant | £150,000 | Open |
How the money is awarded
40% of Oxford's awarded value went through open competition and 1% was awarded directly. A further 39% sits on notices that do not state a route at all. 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 40% (£51.1m)
- Other/Unspecified 39% (£50.0m)
- Framework/DPS 20% (£25.2m)
- Direct 1% (£1.1m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Oxford, 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 Dec 2026 | 3 | Redevelopment of Standingford House Site at Cave Street to Provide New Office Accommoda… | E W Beard Ltd | £13.2m |
| 31 Oct 2027 | 13 | Asphalt Surfacing Works | Asphalt Surfacing Limited | £3.0m |
| 19 Dec 2027 | 15 | Fixed Line Telephony Services | Class Affinity Projects Limited | £765,942 |
| 24 Dec 2026 | 3 | Oxford Town Hall - Facade Clean and Stonework Repair - AWARD | Paye Stonework & Restoration Limited | £425,000 |
| 30 Apr 2027 | 7 | Public Health Funerals - AWARD | C.S.Boswell Independent Funeral Services | £320,524 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Oxford 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 19 Aug 2026 | 19.08.26 Procurement of a GO Strategic partner (1)On 13 July 2026 a Single Member decision was taken to initiate the procurement process for a Strategic Partner, with the requirement that any contract award was subject to Cabinet approval (Decision - Project approval to initiate procurement). | Cabinet |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Cabinet - Rolling stock conditions tender - Final (1)It is proposed that the Council procures a four-year contract to deliver a rolling programme of stock condition surveys across the Housing Revenue Account housing stock. | Cabinet |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Cabinet report- Procurement of a high-support service for accommodation for single homeless ind…Summary and recommendations Decision being taken: To approve the commencement of a procurement exercise for accommodation with high support in Oxford from 1st April 2027. | Cabinet |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Stock condition surveys tender for approval | Cabinet |
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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 Oxford 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 Oxford. 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 Oxford's own published papers, at https://mycouncil.oxford.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 Oxford'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.