Rother: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Rother is a district council in the South East. We hold 98 of its award notices, 12 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 2 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 Rother's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 93 of those 98 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Rother, 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 | Council |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Licensing and General Purposes Committee - General Licensing Panel |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Audit Committee |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Licensing and General Purposes Committee |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Planning Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Rother 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 |
|---|---|---|
| BMR Construction Ltd | £27.7m | 2 |
| Blenwood Ltd | £2.4m | 1 |
| Haworth Tompkins Limited | £1.7m | 1 |
| Baxall Construction Ltd | £1.7m | 1 |
| HaworthTompkins | £1.6m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Rother 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ESPH AB RDC Heart of Sidley Hub (ESPH646 JB) - AWARD | BMR Construction Ltd | £27.7m | Restricted |
| ESPH738 NB RDC Electricity HH NHH | Npower Commercial Gas Limited | £483,093 | DPS call-off |
| ESPH AB/SB RDC Colonnade Refurbishment (ESPH688 JB) - AWARD | DBR Limited | £470,080 | Restricted |
| ESPH674 RDC Tender for Insurance coverage and associated services. Lot 3 | Protector Insurance | £338,649 | Framework call-off |
| ESPH674 RDC Tender for Insurance coverage and associated services. Lot 4 - Motor Fleet | Protector Insurance | £282,420 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
How Rother's awarded value splits across procurement routes. No Rother notice in our records is flagged as a direct award. That is what the published notices say, not proof none happened: direct awards are the part of the market least likely to reach a notice at all.
- Competed 74% (£35.3m)
- Framework/DPS 15% (£7.2m)
- Other/Unspecified 11% (£5.0m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Rother, 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 Nov 2026 | 2 | ESPH AB Stray Dog Kennelling Services (ESPH546 JB) - AWARD | Animal Wardens Ltd | £533,700 |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | ESPH GP Environmental Health Software (ESPH461 TI) - AWARD2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £490,000 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | ESPH AB RDC Public Convenience Cleaning (ESPH620 TT) - AWARD | Wetton Cleaning Services Ltd | £463,797 |
| 12 Nov 2026 | 1 | ESPH589 RDC Merchant Card Services | Lloyds Bank PLC | £324,576 |
| 30 Jun 2027 | 9 | ESPH654 AB RDC Revenues and Benefits Remote Processing Support | Reed Talent Solutions Limited | £310,657 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Rother 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 27 Jul 2026 | Social Value Policy and Sustainable Procurement Policy approvalsThe policies are to be published on the East Sussex Procurement Hub website, which will be regularly updated with resources, links to relevant organisations and a register of social value recorded over the year. | Cabinet |
| 20 Jul 2026 | Sustainable Procurement and Social Value PoliciesSocial value and sustainability questions will form part of the quality criteria for a tender exercise and will be evaluated alongside other quality criteria and price to determine the most advantageous tender. | Audit 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 Rother 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 Rother. 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 Rother's own published papers, at https://rother.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 Rother'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.