Plymouth: who supplies it, and how much it awards without a contest.
Plymouth is a unitary authority in the South West. We hold 516 of its award notices, 19 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 11 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 Plymouth's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 472 of those 516 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Plymouth, 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 |
|---|---|
| 24 Sep 2026 | Health and Wellbeing Board |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Taxi Licensing Committee |
| 25 Sep 2026 | Tamar Bridge and Torpoint Ferry Joint Committee |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Taxi Licensing Committee |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Scrutiny Management Board |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Plymouth 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastucture Limited | £43.2m | 12 |
| Kier Construction | £29.2m | 3 |
| Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited | £24.5m | 2 |
| Devon Contractors | £15.7m | 3 |
| Plymouth Active Leisure Limited | £8.0m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Plymouth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woolwell to George - Phase 2 | Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited | £16.1m | Direct award |
| Adult Social Care Facility - Meadow View | Devon Contractors Ltd | £9.7m | Other |
| Civic Centre Refurbishment Pre-Construction Services Agreement (Phase 2) | Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure Limited | £415,588 | Other |
| Oceansgate Phase 3.1 Enabling Works | Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastucture Limited | £275,000 | Other |
| NEPO-505 Prepaid Payment Cards | Prepaid Financial Services | £180,000 | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
31% of Plymouth's awarded value went through open competition and 21% was awarded directly. A further 49% 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.
- Other/Unspecified 49% (£136m)
- Competed 31% (£86.4m)
- Direct 21% (£57.5m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Plymouth, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jul 2027 | 10 | Woolwell to George - Phase 2 | Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited | £16.1m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Royal Parade Bus Improvement Scheme Construction | Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastucture Limited | £4.6m |
| 31 Oct 2027 | 13 | 25277 - Plymouth Half Marathon | Taurus Events Ltd | £875,000 |
| 13 Aug 2027 | 10 | 25941 - Colesdown Hill Underbridge | AECOM Project Management | £458,710 |
| 8 Mar 2028 | 17 | 26558 - Civic Centre | AECOM Ltd | £447,981 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Plymouth 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep 2026 | Procurement Strategy Annual Report 2025-20262025-2026 Page 31 of 31 OFFICIAL without sufficient consideration or engagement with Procurement and Welfare Team NC2363 27884 A contractual commitment has already been made in breach of CSOs Net Zero Strategic Planning Place Theatre Royal T/A Talklight Room hire… | Audit and Governance Committee |
| 8 Sep 2026 | Procurement Strategy 2026-2028Contract award represents the start of a relationship rather than the end of a procurement process. | Audit and Governance Committee |
| 6 Aug 2026 | Electrical Building Procurement- Briefing ReportThe Council conducted an assessment on all tenders to identify the supplier which submitted the most advantageous tender in accordance with the compliance and assessment criteria. | Delegated Decisions |
| 6 Aug 2026 | Executive Decision made by Council Officer- Electrical Building Procurement awardLegal Implications and risks: A fully compliant competitive procurement exercise has been undertaken and therefore the risks are considered to be very low. | Delegated Decisions |
| 6 Aug 2026 | EIA Electrical Building Procurement awardThis Decision relates to launching a procurement for an electrical building, to enable development of heat network infrastructure to support Civic Centre redevelopment and achieve the City’s commitments to carbon reduction and renewable energy. | Delegated Decisions |
| 26 Aug 2026 | A. Briefing Paper for Business Case 16+ SA FrameworkPartner/Peninsula Framework Key neighbouring local authorities across the region have only relatively recently re-procured their 16+ supported accommodation arrangements (largely between 2023 and 2025), and are therefore unlikely to be in a position to collaborate at this stage. | Delegated Decisions |
| 21 Aug 2026 | Contract Variation Authorisation Form (for CV3 SFG grant 26 - 28 DP NSVariation Request Due Diligence Section to be completed by Procurement with Legal Services and Finance input if required. *Legal Services input mandatory where variation is to be executed as a sealed contract/deed. | Delegated Decisions |
| 16 Jul 2026 | 250702 EIA Template April 2024 CC_Framework…discussions with Government on the new towns programme as necessary, to accept funding up to £1 million for technical studies and masterplanning work, to authorise procurement of this work and delegate award of contract to the Strategic Director for Growth. | Natural Infrastructure and Growth Scrutiny Panel |
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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 Plymouth 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 Plymouth. 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 Plymouth's own published papers, at https://democracy.plymouth.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 Plymouth'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.