Rotherham: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Rotherham is a metropolitan borough in Yorkshire and the Humber. We hold 705 of its award notices, 85 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 Rotherham's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 601 of those 705 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Rotherham, 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 | Audit Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Health Select Commission |
| 7 Oct 2026 | Overview and Scrutiny Management Board |
| 8 Oct 2026 | Planning Board |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Cabinet |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Rotherham 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Esh Construction Ltd | £84.2m | 8 |
| We are with you | £50.1m | 13 |
| Muse Developments Limited | £46.8m | 2 |
| Reed Specialist Recruitment Ltd | £40.0m | 1 |
| Henry Boot Construction Ltd | £36.6m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Rotherham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supply of Frozen Food for RMBC Sites (1) | Ralph Livesey | £7.8m | Other |
| Supply of Liquid Fuel Products | Standard Fuel Oils Ltd | £5.6m | Other |
| Microsoft Reseller | Softcat PLC | £4.9m | Framework call-off |
| 24-047 Purchase of Refuse Collection Vehicles | Dennis Eagle Ltd | £4.2m | Other |
| Car Salary Sacrifice | Tuskerdirect Ltd | £3.5m | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
38% of Rotherham's awarded value went through open competition and 14% was awarded directly. A further 28% 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 38% (£284m)
- Other/Unspecified 28% (£203m)
- Framework/DPS 20% (£145m)
- Direct 14% (£107m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Rotherham, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Dec 2026 | 2 | Construction of Rotherham Town Centre Markets and Library Complex | Henry Boot Construction Ltd | £36.3m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | 19-163 Rotherham Sexual Health Services - all Ages | The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust | £24.6m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | Domestic Abuse Community Outreach Support | Rotherham Rise | £4.4m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Rotherham Renaissance Flood Alleviation Schemes Pre-Construction projects 2021-20242 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £4.1m |
| 31 Dec 2026 | 3 | 23-005 Microsoft Licensing Reseller | Softcat PLC | £4.0m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Rotherham 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 Jun 2026 | Care Quality Commission Assessment of Rotherham Adult Social Care 2025…a ‘Good’ overall rating and summarises the key strengths and opportunities for development as detailed in the Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) assessment report of how well the Council is meeting its duties under Part 1 of the Care Act (2014). | Cabinet |
| 2 Sep 2026 | Better Care Fund (BCF) Call-Off Partnership -Work Order 2026-27The agreement reflects the requirements of the national Better Care Fund Framework, supports local health and care priorities, and sets out the governance, financial and commissioning arrangements required to deliver integrated health and social care services in Rotherham. | Health and Wellbeing Board |
| 14 Sep 2026 | Response to the Health Select Commission Scrutiny Review - Menopause | Cabinet |
| 10 Jun 2026 | Best Start Local Plan and Best Start and Beyond FrameworkWith respect to the Best Start and Beyond Framework, the main issue to bring to the Board’s attention is that of capacity to give commensurate consideration to the health and wellbeing needs of school-age children, given the early age focus… | Health and Wellbeing Board |
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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 Rotherham 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 Rotherham. 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 Rotherham's own published papers, at https://moderngov.rotherham.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 Rotherham'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.