West Lancashire: who supplies it, and how much it awards without a contest.
West Lancashire is a district council in the North West. We hold 190 of its award notices, 19 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 West Lancashire's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 145 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 West Lancashire, 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 | Local Plan Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Communities & Environment Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Policy & Resources Committee |
| 29 Sep 2026 | Standards Committee |
| 30 Sep 2026 | Audit & Governance Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every West Lancashire 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Building Services UK Ltd | £13.0m | 3 |
| Liberty Gas Group Limited | £6.8m | 3 |
| Heat 2000 Ltd | £6.8m | 1 |
| Tawd Valley Developments Limited | £4.5m | 2 |
| Wates Property Services Ltd | £1.6m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards West Lancashire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| SHDF Wave 3 - Decarbonisation Waorks | Sustainable Building Services UK Ltd | £8.0m | Direct award |
| Asbestos Surveys | Life Environmental Services Ltd | £750,000 | Open |
| Bins - Contenur | Contenur UK Ltd | £475,000 | Open |
| Alliance Leisure Services | Alliance Leisure Services Limited | £330,089 | Open |
| Hybrid Printing | Critiqom Ltd | £327,840 | Open |
How the money is awarded
47% of West Lancashire's awarded value went through open competition and 31% was awarded directly. A further 22% 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 47% (£27.0m)
- Direct 31% (£17.4m)
- Other/Unspecified 22% (£12.4m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for West Lancashire, 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 May 2027 | 8 | SHDF - Retrofit works | Sustainable Building Services (UK) limited | £5.0m |
| 31 May 2027 | 8 | Consultancy Services | Savills Uk Limited | £1.2m |
| 24 Mar 2027 | 6 | Alliance Leisure Services | Alliance Leisure Services Limited | £330,089 |
| 18 Sep 2027 | 12 | Hybrid Printing | Critiqom Ltd | £327,840 |
| 11 Mar 2027 | 5 | Interim Technical Finance Consultant ( Deputy Section 151) | Macildowie Associates Ltd | £307,892 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers West Lancashire 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 | Social Value Policy & FrameworkThe Policy draws a clear distinction between ‘responsible procurement’ which is the baseline legal and ethical requirements that all suppliers must meet as a condition of working with the Council and social value, which relates to the additional economic, social… | Council |
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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 West Lancashire 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 West Lancashire. 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 West Lancashire's own published papers, at https://westlancs.moderngov.co.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 West Lancashire'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.