Walsall Council: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Walsall Council is a metropolitan borough in the West Midlands. We hold 467 of its award notices, 41 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 Walsall Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 233 of those 467 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Walsall 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 | Employment Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Children's, Education and Skills Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Licensing and Safety Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Health and Wellbeing Board |
| 28 Sep 2026 | Council |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Walsall 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kier Construction Limited | £35.4m | 1 |
| Community Integrated Care | £15.0m | 2 |
| Speller Metcalfe Malvern Limited | £8.6m | 3 |
| Interclass Plc | £7.9m | 2 |
| MAXIMUS UK Services Limited | £5.8m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Walsall 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WP4061 The provision of Walsall Connected Gateway and Adult Learning Centre - NEC 4 Design and… | Kier Construction Limited | £35.4m | Framework call-off |
| WP4073 King George V - Park & Pavilion Improvement Programme | Interclass Plc | £4.8m | Framework call-off |
| Shepwell School Modular Teaching Block Installation | Thurston Group Limited | £3.1m | Restricted |
| W5007 Electric Vehicle Charging Network Infrastructure | Amey Highways Ltd | £1.5m | Framework call-off |
| WP4064 - Provision of Adults and Children's Social Care Case Management System | Access (UK) Limited | £1.4m | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
43% of Walsall Council's awarded value went through open competition and 1% was awarded directly. A further 20% 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 43% (£71.3m)
- Framework/DPS 35% (£57.3m)
- Other/Unspecified 20% (£33.4m)
- Direct 1% (£2.0m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Walsall 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Feb 2028 | 17 | WP4061 The provision of Walsall Connected Gateway and Adult Learning Centre - NEC 4 Des… | Kier Construction Limited | £35.4m |
| 2 Oct 2027 | 12 | WP3839 Supported Living Individual Care Package - AWARD | Community Integrated Care | £15.0m |
| 25 Jan 2027 | 4 | WP4073 King George V - Park & Pavilion Improvement Programme | Interclass Plc | £4.8m |
| 2 Mar 2028 | 17 | Professional Services - Capital Construction | Atkinsréalis UK Limited | £4.5m |
| 30 Apr 2027 | 7 | WP3960 - Regeneration Strategic Advisor - AWARD6 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £1.5m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Walsall 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Jun 2026 | 08. Public Health Outcomes FrameworkTo update the Health and Wellbeing Board (HWBB) on the key features of the public health outcomes framework (PHOF) for Walsall, as shown in the “3x3 Matrix Tool”, developed by Walsall’s Business Intelligence team. | Health and Wellbeing Board |
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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 Walsall 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 Walsall. 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 Walsall Council's own published papers, at https://cmispublic.walsall.gov.uk/cmis. 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 Walsall'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.