Trafford: contracts, suppliers and what is coming next.
Trafford is a metropolitan borough in the North West. We hold 190 of its award notices, 15 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 2 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 Trafford's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 133 of those 190 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Trafford, 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 | Executive |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Planning and Development Management Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Health Scrutiny Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Accounts and Audit Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Children and Young People's Scrutiny Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Trafford 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dunsters Farm Ltd | £60.0m | 2 |
| Drax Power Limited | £27.8m | 2 |
| Bange Nursing Homes Ltd, t/a Bradley House Nursing Home | £24.0m | 1 |
| C24 Healthcare Ltd | £24.0m | 1 |
| Bupa Care Homes GL Limited | £24.0m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Trafford 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provision of Audit Assurance Services - Mini Competition via RM6188 Lot 1 | Kpmg LLP | £1.4m | Open |
| Consultancy Support | Landmark & Associates | £161,995 | Direct award |
| A56 Sinderland and Barington Junction Improvements | George Cox & Sons | £120,000 | Direct award |
| Wharfside Utilities Assessment | Civic Engineers | £99,750 | Direct award |
| 020609 - Central Rd Partington Stage 3 Design | Buttress Architects Ltd | £95,700 | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
89% of Trafford'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 89% (£375m)
- Other/Unspecified 10% (£43.5m)
- Direct 1% (£2.1m)
- Framework/DPS under 1% (£1.2m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Trafford, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Nov 2027 | 13 | Bereavement Related Goods Framework15 award notices, shown once | framework, 15 suppliers | £10.0m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | Altrincham College Extension | Eric Wright Construction | £8.8m |
| 16 Jun 2027 | 8 | Framework Agreement for the Supply of Tree Related Services (2024 - 2027)14 award notices, shown once | framework, 14 suppliers | £1.2m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Health Inequalities3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £725,001 |
| 18 Feb 2028 | 17 | Minor Adaptations | Swinton Community Business T/A Helping Hands Minor Repairs Servi | £715,935 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Trafford 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Jul 2026 | Movement and Transport Framework_DRAFT_30.06.2026a FOR BRIEFING PAPERS…for Greater Manchester is to establish a premium walking, wheeling,and cycling network, making sustainable travel the preferred option for most.Creating safe and appealing spaces for local communities, and surroundingneighbourhoods.Community engagement will be at the forefront of the Movement and TransportFramework. | Executive |
| 15 Jun 2026 | Exec report -GM Race Equity Framework Progress ReportThe Greater Manchester Race Equity Framework, formalised in October 2023, is a strategic initiative designed to address racial inequalities across education, employment, health, and criminal justice, embedding accountability, leadership, and community engagement throughout the region. | Executive |
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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 Trafford 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 Trafford. 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 Trafford's own published papers, at https://democratic.trafford.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 Trafford'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.