Tower Hamlets: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Tower Hamlets is a London borough. We hold 159 of its award notices, 7 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 Tower Hamlets's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 44 of those 159 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Tower Hamlets, 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 |
|---|---|
| 22 Sep 2026 | Appointment Sub-Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Licensing Sub Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Overview & Scrutiny Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Cabinet |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Appointment Sub-Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Tower Hamlets 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Look Ahead | £7.6m | 2 |
| Kind & Co (Builders) Ltd | £6.4m | 2 |
| Toynbee Hall | £3.2m | 2 |
| New Era Fuels Limited | £3.0m | 1 |
| New Era Fuel Limited | £2.9m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Tower Hamlets 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO6101A Liquid Fuel (HVO and Diesel) | New Era Fuel Limited | £2.9m | Other |
| R6138 Laptop Sourcing | Centerprise International Limited | £1.4m | Other |
| R6144 Debt Assist | Liberata UK Limited | £850,000 | Direct award |
| HAR6152: Mobility Aids - Lifts | Stannah Stairlift Services Limited | £740,000 | Direct award |
| HAR6140 - Structural & Civil Engineering Services - Augusta Street | Pick Everard | £199,260 | Restricted |
How the money is awarded
54% of Tower Hamlets's awarded value went through open competition and 5% was awarded directly. A further 39% 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 54% (£21.3m)
- Other/Unspecified 39% (£15.2m)
- Direct 5% (£2.1m)
- Framework/DPS 2% (£721,576)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Tower Hamlets, 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 Mar 2027 | 6 | HAC5758 LinkAge Plus Services | Toynbee Hall | £3.2m |
| 7 Apr 2027 | 6 | R6138 Laptop Sourcing | Centerprise International Limited | £1.4m |
| 4 Nov 2027 | 13 | R6144 Debt Assist | Liberata UK Limited | £850,000 |
| 6 Sep 2027 | 11 | THH5712 ASB PATROLLING & COMMUNITY REASSURANCE SERVICES | Parkguard Ltd | £840,000 |
| 30 Jan 2027 | 4 | Rubrik M365 Backup Solution | Assured Data Protection Limited | £324,000 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Tower Hamlets 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Jul 2026 | Supply of Grid Electricity and Natural Gas Contract AwardEnergy broker appointed through a tendering process to procure for the entire value of the contract. | 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 Tower Hamlets 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 Tower Hamlets. 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 Tower Hamlets's own published papers, at https://democracy.towerhamlets.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 Tower Hamlets'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.