Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council is a unitary authority in the North East. We hold 589 of its award notices, 43 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 8 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 Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 391 of those 589 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, 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 | Pride in Place Board |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Adult Social Care and Health Select Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Executive Scrutiny Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Audit and Governance Committee |
Source: Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council 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 |
|---|---|---|
| John Graham Construction Ltd | £88.0m | 1 |
| Balfour Beatty | £11.4m | 1 |
| Family Action | £11.0m | 4 |
| NRG Riverside Ltd | £10.5m | 3 |
| Rainton Construction Ltd | £7.7m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Enterprise Agreement 26-29 | Phoenix Software Ltd | £4.8m | Framework call-off |
| DA from the GCA G Cloud 14 FW for the Digital Support Service for Unpaid Carers2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £663,788 | Framework call-off |
| DA from the CCS RM6361 Multifunctional Devices, GovPrint Hardware, Managed Print Provision and… | Canon (UK) Limited | £426,600 | Framework call-off |
| DA from the GCA Vertical Application Solutions FW for the Adult's Social Care Case Management S… | System C Healthcare Limited | £409,223 | Framework call-off |
| DA from G Cloud 14 for Corporate Governance and Compliance System | Polarisoft the Anywhere Company Limited | £261,300 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
46% of Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council's awarded value went through open competition and 1% was awarded directly. A further 43% 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 46% (£126m)
- Other/Unspecified 43% (£117m)
- Framework/DPS 9% (£25.2m)
- Direct 1% (£3.4m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, 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 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Elton Interchange | Balfour Beatty | £11.4m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Strategic Partnership for Family Support | Family Action | £10.7m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Call off From NEPO210 for Highway Surfacing and Cold Planing (Lot 1) | Tarmac Trading Limtied | £4.0m |
| 31 Jul 2027 | 10 | Modular Steel Access Solutions | Easibathe & Easiaccess | £1.5m |
| 1 Dec 2027 | 14 | FC from ESPO860_22 - Supply of Garden Waste Bins | IPL Plastics (UK) Ltd | £680,000 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 7 Sep 2026 | Scope and Project Plan - Procurement and Tendering ProcessesRobust and well managed procurement and tendering arrangement contributes to the financial stability of the Council and thereby ensures SBC continues to deliver the services that communities need. | People Select Committee |
| 7 Sep 2026 | Covering Report - Scrutiny Review of Procurement and Tendering ProcessesAs part of the scoping process for the Scrutiny Review of Procurement and Tendering Processes, the Committee identified the Procurement Service as a key contributor. | People Select Committee |
| 7 Sep 2026 | SBC Procurement 07_09_26Notices 27/08/26 14 UK1 pipeline notice UK2 preliminary market engagement notice UK3 planned procurement notice UK4 tender notice UK5 transparency notice UK6 contract award notice UK7 contract details notice UK9 contract performance notice UK10 contract change notice UK11 contract termination… | People Select Committee |
| 16 Jul 2026 | Procurement Plan July 2026 Cabinet Report | Cabinet |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Procurement PlanProcurement Process The project will be procured through a direct award to Balfour Beatty via the SCAPE Framework. | Cabinet |
| 18 Jun 2026 | Procurement of Temporary and Supported Accommodation ContractsTo approve the proposal (as detailed in paragraph 12 to 15 of this report) to move forward with the procurement of new contracts for both Temporary and Supported Accommodation for adults (including singles, couples and families). | Cabinet |
| 17 Sep 2026 | Procurement Plan / Higher Value Contracts | 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
Where Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council 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 Stockton-on-Tees. 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 Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council's own published papers, at https://moderngov.stockton.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 Stockton-on-Tees'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.