Sandwell: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Sandwell is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands. We hold 1,000 of its award notices, 70 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 1 committee paper 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 Sandwell's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 494 of those 1,000 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Sandwell, 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 | Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny Board |
| 21 Sep 2026 | Schools Forum |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Licensing Sub Committee 3 (Licensing Act 2003 and Gambling Act 2005) |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Cabinet Petitions Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Ethical Standards and Member Development Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Sandwell 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 |
|---|---|---|
| HCL Workforce Solutions Ltd | £24.0m | 2 |
| Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited | £18.0m | 1 |
| Dodd Group (Midlands) Limited | £15.2m | 3 |
| GRAHAM Asset Management Ltd | £15.0m | 1 |
| John Sisk and Son Limited | £12.0m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Sandwell 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Invitation to Tender for Tipton LUF Residential Developments, Union Street Conservative Club, T…4 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £6.3m | Open |
| Superimposed Road Marking, Specialist Surfacing and Studs 2026 - 2030 - AWARD | Wilson & Scott (Highways) Ltd | £2.9m | Open |
| Sandwell Carers Service - AWARD | Forward Carers CIC | £1.5m | Not specified |
| ITT for the New Changing Pavilion at Hydes Road Wednesbury - AWARD | E Manton Limited | £1.1m | Open |
| Mortuary Facilities and Pathology Services - AWARD3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £1.1m | Open |
How the money is awarded
81% of Sandwell's awarded value went through open competition and 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 81% (£224m)
- Framework/DPS 17% (£47.4m)
- Other/Unspecified 1% (£2.8m)
- Direct 1% (£2.1m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Sandwell, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Jan 2027 | 4 | Major Adaptations and Improvement Works 2023 - 2027 - AWARD2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £10.0m |
| 30 Jul 2027 | 10 | Invitation to Tender for Tipton LUF Residential Developments, Union Street Conservative…4 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £6.3m |
| 31 Aug 2027 | 11 | Hybrid Mail | Paragon Customer Communications Limited | £5.4m |
| 30 Nov 2026 | 2 | Roofing Repair & Renewal / Built Up Felt Roofing - AWARD | IJS Roofing & Building Ltd | £3.5m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Provision of Insurance Services | Zurich Municipal | £3.4m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Sandwell 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Sep 2026 | Enhanced Assessment Beds Service: Interim Contract Extensions and Procurement of Replacement Co…The procurement and mobilisation programme will be managed through appropriate directorate governance arrangements, with input from Adult Social Care, Commissioning, Procurement, Legal and Finance. | Cabinet |
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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 Sandwell 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 Sandwell. 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 Sandwell's own published papers, at https://sandwell.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 Sandwell'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.