Waltham Forest: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Waltham Forest is a London borough. We hold 1,012 of its award notices, 9 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 Waltham Forest's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 283 of those 1,012 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Waltham Forest, 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 |
|---|---|
| 23 Sep 2026 | Budget, Performance and Coordinating Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Executive Decision |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Cabinet |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Pension Committee |
| 6 Oct 2026 | Shareholder Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Waltham Forest 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bellway Homes Limited | £162m | 1 |
| R G Carter (Southern) | £16.8m | 2 |
| Olympic (South) Ltd t/a HATS Group | £16.4m | 3 |
| Tower Hamlets GP Care Group CIC | £11.3m | 2 |
| Henry | £11.3m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Waltham Forest 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| LBWF- ARBORICULTURAL SERVICES | Gristwood and Toms Ltd | £5.5m | Open |
| London Secure Children's Home Technical Team Appointment | Arcadis LLP | £2.7m | Restricted |
| Provision and installation of Ducting, gigabit capable managed and infrastructure services | Neos Networks Ltd | £1.0m | Restricted |
| Capita One Revenues and Benefits Core Processing Systems | Capita One | £962,980 | Direct award |
| Beam - Temporary to Settled Housing | Beam Up Ltd | £428,000 | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
43% of Waltham Forest's awarded value went through open competition and 2% was awarded directly. A further 54% 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.
- Other/Unspecified 54% (£179m)
- Competed 43% (£144m)
- Direct 2% (£7.2m)
- Framework/DPS under 1% (£152,000)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Waltham Forest, 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 Oct 2027 | 13 | Revenues Resilience Processing-Offsite processing of Council Tax and Non-Domestic Rates2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £700,000 |
| 15 Jun 2027 | 8 | THE PROVISION OF CYBER SECURITY SERVICES | Phoenix Software Ltd | £612,102 |
| 7 Jul 2027 | 9 | Contact Centre Omnichannel Solution | 8x8 UK Ltd | £600,000 |
| 31 Jan 2028 | 16 | Internal Audit and Anti-Fraud Services | TIAA Ltd | £600,000 |
| 11 Dec 2026 | 2 | Benefits Processing Resilience Contract | Meritec Limited | £546,085 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Waltham Forest 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep 2026 | Contract Award Agency Procurement Platform - Cabinet reportFull Tender Process Conduct a bespoke, open tender process and invite submissions from all providers on the market Joint Venture Set up our own company to work in conjunction with a partner. | Cabinet |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Cabinet Report - Housing Repairs Service Procurement StrategyTherefore, a dedicated fulltime project manager will be required, supported by technical consultants to manage the procurement processes and prepare the tender documentation. | Cabinet |
| 2 Jun 2026 | Recommissioning of the Healthy Child Programme - Cabinet report…Services and Children Services, in consultation with the Portfolio Holders for Adults and Health and for Children and Young People and the Section 151 Officer, to finalise the procurement documentation, evaluate tenders, and award the contract to the successful provider(s). | Cabinet |
| 16 Sep 2026 | Grocery Voucher Scheme Contract Variation - ED reportExploring other alternative options would result in significant process changes for staff, schools and families and require a new contract to be procured to deliver this scheme, with no evidence any alternatives could provide better value for money. | Executive Decision |
| 8 Sep 2026 | Award of contract for Agency Workers | Cabinet |
| 17 Sep 2026 | 2c - Adult Social Care Outcomes Framework | Health and Adult Social Care Scrutiny |
| 9 Jul 2026 | Introduction to the Corporate Impact FrameworkHealth and social care are key areas of focus in the framework, with at least 20 metrics related to these service areas. | Scrutiny Coordinating Committee |
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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 Waltham Forest 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 Waltham Forest. 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 Waltham Forest's own published papers, at https://democracy.walthamforest.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 Waltham Forest'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.