Warwickshire County Council: its biggest suppliers, and what it is buying next.
Warwickshire County Council is a county council in the West Midlands. We hold 887 of its award notices, 33 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 Warwickshire County Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 195 of those 887 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Warwickshire County 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 |
|---|---|
| 22 Sep 2026 | Children & Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Warwickshire Police and Crime Panel |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Adult Social Care and Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | County Council |
Source: Warwickshire County Council's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Warwickshire County 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pertemps Recruitment Partnership Ltd | £90.6m | 2 |
| Dodd Group (Midlands) Limited | £76.1m | 2 |
| Arden Construction Limited | £66.2m | 2 |
| Willmott Dixon Construction Limited | £20.0m | 1 |
| Marston Holdings Limited | £18.9m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Warwickshire County 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| WCC - Avon Valley School Extension and Refurbishment | Willmott Dixon Construction Limited | £20.0m | Framework call-off |
| WCC - Oakwood Primary School | Jeakins Weir | £3.1m | Quotation |
| WCC - Legionella Risk Assessments | Primary Water Solutions | £500,000 | DPS call-off |
| WCC - Firmstep Licences | Granicus-Firmstep Limited | £489,236 | Framework call-off |
| WAR - Mobile Apps and eForms Platform | NDL Software Ltd | £190,000 | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
93% of Warwickshire County Council's awarded value went through open competition and under 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 93% (£627m)
- Framework/DPS 7% (£45.8m)
- Other/Unspecified under 1% (£2.8m)
- Direct under 1% (£1.9m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Warwickshire County 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Jan 2028 | 16 | WCC Framework Contract for the Provision of Engineering and Construction Works 202313 award notices, shown once | framework, 13 suppliers | £200m |
| 31 Dec 2026 | 3 | CSW/WCC - Shared Professional Services Consultancy Framework Contract3 award notices, shown once | framework, 3 suppliers | £25.0m |
| 28 Feb 2027 | 5 | WCC - Avon Valley School Extension and Refurbishment | Willmott Dixon Construction Limited | £20.0m |
| 30 Sep 2026 | under 1 | WCC - Domestic Violence and Abuse Support Service - AWARD | Refuge | £7.0m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | WCC - All Age Carers Wellbeing and Support Service - AWARD | Carers Trust Heart of England | £6.1m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Warwickshire County 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2026 | A Financial Framework for the 2027-32 Medium Term Financial Strategy Refresh…these risks and manage demand, but the ongoing, significant pressures further demonstrate the urgent need for national policy change, particularly permanent solutions for unsustainable DSG deficits, social care reform through the Casey Commission and changes to home to school transport. | Cabinet |
| 12 Jun 2026 | Call In : Decision to Consult on the proposed decommissioning of the Council's Equalities Servi…2) EQuIP has been singled out, with no comparative review of the Council's commissioned voluntary-sector services. | Resources and Fire & Rescue Overview and Scrutiny 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
Where Warwickshire County 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 Warwickshire. 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 Warwickshire County Council's own published papers, at https://democracy.warwickshire.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 Warwickshire'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.