Test Valley: what its committee papers say about buying, and who supplies it.
Test Valley is a district council in the South East. We hold 59 of its award notices, and 4 contracts due to end within 18 months. 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 Test Valley's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 54 of those 59 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Test Valley, 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 | Audit Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Southern Area Planning Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Cabinet |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Licensing Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Test Valley 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Terberg Matec UK Limited | £960,250 | 1 |
| Carter Jonas LLP | £370,125 | 3 |
| Anchor Pipework Ltd | £241,423 | 3 |
| Clear Channel UK | £240,000 | 1 |
| Newsteer Limited | £190,752 | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
Test Valley has published no award notices in the last 12 months in the sources we read. Notices are only required above a value threshold, so a quiet twelve months in the notices is not the same as a quiet twelve months in the buying.
How the money is awarded
How Test Valley's awarded value splits across procurement routes. No Test Valley 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 78% (£3.4m)
- Other/Unspecified 22% (£960,250)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 4 largest by value on record for Test Valley, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 May 2027 | 8 | Stray Dog Services Contract | Three Oaks Boarding Kennels & Cattery | £129,545 |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | Supply of Beers, Wines and Spirits, Bar Equipment and Services | NUS Services Ltd | £81,319 |
| 8 Nov 2027 | 13 | Bus Shelter Maintenance | Externiture | £79,351 |
| 16 Feb 2027 | 4 | Commercial Rent Review Services | Carter Jonas LLP | £39,500 |
Procurement radar
Committee papers Test Valley published in the last four months whose title uses the language of buying.
No procurement decision reached a committee here in the last four months. Test Valley published 77 papers in that window and none of them is titled as a tender, an award, an extension or a waiver.
That is common and it is not a gap in our reading: most councils delegate day-to-day buying to officers, and only the larger decisions reach a committee with a paper to their name. The award notices above are the fuller record of what this council actually buys.
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 Test Valley 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 Test Valley. 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 Test Valley's own published papers, at https://democracy.testvalley.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 Test Valley'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.