Portsmouth: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Portsmouth is a unitary authority in the South East. We hold 171 of its award notices, 7 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 6 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 Portsmouth's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 24 of those 171 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Portsmouth, 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 | Portchester Crematorium Joint Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Cabinet |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Cabinet Member for Housing and Tackling Homelessness |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Full Council |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Health & Wellbeing Board |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Portsmouth 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bryt Energy Limited | £12.7m | 5 |
| Sefe Energy Limited | £4.0m | 2 |
| Daisy Corporate Services Limited | £863,000 | 1 |
| Apetito Limited | £725,000 | 1 |
| Reds Builders Limited | £219,585 | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Portsmouth 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual Scour Protection Dive Condition Survey 2025 - AWARD | RS Divers LTD | £19,980 | Restricted |
| Navigation Pile B2 Maintenance Works 2025 - AWARD | Baker Trayte Marine Ltd | £4,900 | Restricted |
| BSIP 42 - Key Bus stops CCTV | Select Electrics Limited | not stated | Open |
| Book supply for Portsmouth School Library Service conducted under ESPO Framework agreement 376F… | Peters Limited | not stated | Direct award |
| Extension to Coastal Engineering Minor Works Framework Agreement: Southern Coastal Group and SC…6 award notices, shown once | framework, 6 suppliers | not stated | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
91% of Portsmouth's awarded value went through open competition and under 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 91% (£17.2m)
- Framework/DPS 9% (£1.7m)
- Direct under 1% (£37,940)
- Other/Unspecified 0% (not stated)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Portsmouth, 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 Mar 2027 | 6 | Portsmouth City Council (PCC) Energy Procurement Oct 2024 | Bryt Energy Limited | £8.9m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Portsmouth City Council (PCC) Energy Procurement Oct 2024 | Sefe Energy Limited | £4.0m |
| 2 Mar 2027 | 5 | Domestic Energy Efficiency Delivery Partner Framework - AWARD3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | not stated |
| 30 May 2027 | 8 | Event Technical Services - AWARD | Lizard Events Ltd | not stated |
| 31 Oct 2027 | 13 | Adult Mental Health - Supported Housing Services (Parts 1 & 2) - AWARD | Two Saints Limited | not stated |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Portsmouth 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Sep 2026 | Procurement MI - G&A&S Committee - 16th September 2026The Council's application of the Procurement Gateway Process, which requires early involvement Procurement review on any proposed contract award above £150k, ensures that any such proposed direct awards can be tested against the lawful exemptions that can be applied. | Governance & Audit & Standards Committee |
| 16 Sep 2026 | G&A&S - Procurement MI - App 2.a Direct Awards - High Value - Q1 Apr - Jun 26…of frameworks highlighted that the compliant ESPO, MSTAR4 framework could be utilised to procure a VNMS provision via a direct award, which was permitted when a managed service was already in place and that the change to a new provider… | Governance & Audit & Standards Committee |
| 16 Sep 2026 | G&A&S - Procurement MI - APP 1b Spend Compliance - Q1 April - June 26 | Governance & Audit & Standards Committee |
| 16 Sep 2026 | G&A&S - Procurement MI - APP 1a Spend Compliance - Q1 April - June 26 | Governance & Audit & Standards Committee |
| 16 Sep 2026 | G&A&S - Procurement MI - APP 1c Spend Compliance - Q1 April - June 26 | Governance & Audit & Standards Committee |
| 16 Sep 2026 | G&A&S - Procurement MI - App 2.b Direct Awards - Medium Value - Q1 Apr - Jun 26 | Governance & Audit & Standards 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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth. 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 Portsmouth's own published papers, at https://democracy.portsmouth.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 Portsmouth'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.