Rochdale: who supplies it, and how much it awards without a contest.
Rochdale is a metropolitan borough in the North West. We hold 391 of its award notices, 18 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 10 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 Rochdale's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 260 of those 391 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Rochdale, 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 | Heywood Township Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Rochdale North Township Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Atom Valley Northern Gateway Mayoral Development Corporation |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Health and Wellbeing Board |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Audit and Governance Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Rochdale 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Drax Power Limited | £44.7m | 2 |
| HCRG Care Services Limited | £42.0m | 2 |
| Locala Community Partnerships CIC | £42.0m | 2 |
| Willmott Dixon Limited | £27.0m | 1 |
| HH smith & sons ltd | £18.8m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Rochdale 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12559 - Station Gardens | Willmott Dixon Limited | £27.0m | Direct award |
| Evouchers, including Local Voucher scheme | Beyond Holdings Limited | £2.6m | Direct award |
| EPIC Digital Transformation Programme Contract | Channel 3 Consulting Ltd | £970,000 | Direct award |
| Middleton Arena - Auditorium Stage Lighting Replacement | Stage Electrics Partnership Ltd | £377,660 | Direct award |
| GB-Stretford: TPPL Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council NEPO HGV Lot 3 - 3 x Swingo 200+ Sweep… | Aebi Schmidt UK Limited | £345,417 | Not specified |
How the money is awarded
51% of Rochdale's awarded value went through open competition and 23% was awarded directly. A further 26% 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 51% (£155m)
- Other/Unspecified 26% (£78.7m)
- Direct 23% (£69.3m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Rochdale, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Jan 2028 | 16 | 12559 - Station Gardens | Willmott Dixon Limited | £27.0m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Castleton Bee Network Phase 2 | George Cox & Sons | £11.6m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | UID13008/13009/13010 Rochdale Specialist Domestic Abuse Support Services3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £4.8m |
| 1 Jan 2028 | 15 | Liquid Fuels | Standard Fuel Oils Ltd | £3.1m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Resilient Roch (FCRIP) - Supply and Installation of Property Flood Resilience (PFR) Mea… | Watertight | £3.0m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Rochdale 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Jul 2026 | Re-Procurement and Transformation Plans for Care HomesThe procurement has established a new contractual framework for residential and nursing care, creating a platform through which the Council can dri ve quality improvement, workforce development, innovation and transformation across the care home market. | HMR Integrated Care Partnership Committee |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Northern Gateway MDC Constitution v.1.0 (May-26 for Adoption)To accept any offer or tender and agree and arrange for, the disposal of land or property and other interests in land or property provided the offer or tender does not exceed £100,000 and is the best consideration that can… | Atom Valley Northern Gateway Mayoral Development Corporation |
| 23 Jun 2026 | Simister Bowlee Northern Gateway Development Framework Supplementary Planning DocumentThis report sets out the results of the consultation on the draft Simister Bowlee Development Framework Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) and seeks approval for the final SPD to be adopted. | Cabinet |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Northern Gateway Social Value Delivery PlanEconomy Theme Measurable Outcome Local Supply Chains % of supply chain spend retained within Bury and Rochdale Supply Chain Development No of businesses provided specific procurement training incorporating sustainability , social value and how to prepare tenders. | Atom Valley Northern Gateway Mayoral Development Corporation |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Commissioning Intentions for The Willows Dementia Hub (Springhill Resource Centre)…Social Care and Wellbeing and the Director of Corporate Services, to undertake the procurement exercise, award the contract and enter into and execute all necessary contractual, legal and ancillary documentation, including the exercise of any extension provisions, required to give… | HMR Integrated Care Partnership Committee |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Northern Gateway Social Value StrategyWhen developing project briefs for procurement purposes, the lead organisation should liaise with the Social Value Delivery Group to understand what current social value initiatives are in place through other Northern Gateway projects in order to build on cumulative impact… | Atom Valley Northern Gateway Mayoral Development Corporation |
| 27 Jul 2026 | Adult Social Care Quality Commission (CQC) ReportIn June 2026, the Care Quality Commission published the outcome of their assessment of Adult Social Care in Rochdale. | Health, Schools and Care Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Atom Valley Northern Gateway MDC Interim Strategic Business Plan May-26Transport: Continued development of the Transport Framework approved previously and delivery of interventions to realise the transport strategy for Northern Gateway. | Atom Valley Northern Gateway Mayoral Development Corporation |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Northern Gateway Strategic Development VisionIntegrated Transport Solutions: Integrated public transport solutions will be implemented at Northern Gateway to improve accessibility and connectivity, offering efficient and sustainable transportation options for residents and workers and connecting to nearby communities. | Atom Valley Northern Gateway Mayoral Development Corporation |
| 23 Jun 2026 | HMR Place Based Primary Care Commissioning Committee Assurance Report | HMR Integrated Care Partnership 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
Covering the same ground
Where Rochdale 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 Rochdale. 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 Rochdale's own published papers, at https://rochdale.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 Rochdale'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.