Westmorland and Furness Council: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Westmorland and Furness Council is a unitary authority in the North West. We hold 1,513 of its award notices, 82 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 3 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 Westmorland and Furness Council's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 562 of those 1,513 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Westmorland and Furness 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 | Corporate Overview and Scrutiny Committee |
| 22 Sep 2026 | Joint Executive Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Health and Adults Scrutiny Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Health and Wellbeing Board |
Source: Westmorland and Furness Council's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Westmorland and Furness 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hanson Quarry Products Europe Ltd T/A Hanson Contracting | £60.0m | 2 |
| Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust | £19.5m | 2 |
| Leck Construction Ltd | £17.8m | 5 |
| Top Notch Contractors Ltd | £7.7m | 28 |
| IPL Plastics (UK) Ltd | £4.9m | 5 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Westmorland and Furness 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plastic Wheeled Bins (2 Wheels) and Plastic Bin/Container End of Life Buy Back | IPL Plastics (UK) Limited | £4.6m | Framework call-off |
| DPS - Property Maintenance Minor Works 2024-20285 award notices, shown once | framework, 5 suppliers | £4.0m | Open |
| Recruitment Agent for Capital Programme | Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited | £2.0m | Framework call-off |
| Revenue and Benefits Software | Civica UK Limited | £1.9m | Other |
| Digital Platform Including Customer Relationship Management (CRM) | Netcall PLC | £1.4m | Direct award |
How the money is awarded
68% of Westmorland and Furness Council's awarded value went through open competition and 4% was awarded directly. A further 21% 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 68% (£136m)
- Other/Unspecified 21% (£41.9m)
- Framework/DPS 8% (£15.5m)
- Direct 4% (£7.2m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Westmorland and Furness 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 Jul 2027 | 10 | Road Lighting Works Contract 2025-2027 | Altitude Services Limited | £4.4m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Recyclate & Garden Waste Transfer - Kendal Area | FCC Environment (UK) Limited | £2.5m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Road Marking Approved List (Barrow, Eden And South Lakeland District Areas) 2023-20266 award notices, shown once | framework, 4 suppliers | £2.2m |
| 31 Aug 2027 | 11 | Water, Wastewater and Ancillary Services | Anglian Water Business (National) Ltd, trading as Wave Utilities | £1.4m |
| 30 Apr 2027 | 7 | Beaconside Primary School Expansion | Top Notch Contractors Ltd | £1.1m |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Westmorland and Furness 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Jun 2026 | AC - Procurement Improvement Plan – UpdateThe outputs from the procurement review include training and education that will further embed the approve procedures. | Audit Committee |
| 2 Jun 2026 | CAB 02/06 - Award of a framework contract and appoint suppliers to Professional Services Framew…The framework tender documents were subject to procurement and legal advice to develop; the procurement approach, a bespoke framework agreement, and call off contract terms which use an updated version of the New Engineering Contract (NEC) Professional Services Contract (long… | Cabinet |
| 2 Sep 2026 | Award of Contract - Heart of Kendal, Kendal Indoor Market Detailed Design and Construction | Strategic Director of Communities, Place and Economy |
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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 Westmorland and Furness 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 Westmorland and Furness. 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 Westmorland and Furness Council's own published papers, at https://westmorlandandfurness.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 Westmorland and Furness'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.