West Northamptonshire: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
West Northamptonshire is a unitary authority in the East Midlands. We hold 1,989 of its award notices, 87 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 West Northamptonshire's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 624 of those 1,989 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at West Northamptonshire, 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 | Strategic Planning Committee |
| 23 Sep 2026 | Audit and Governance Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Council |
| 1 Oct 2026 | Shareholder Cabinet Sub-Committee |
| 5 Oct 2026 | Pensions Fund Committee |
Source: West Northamptonshire's published committee calendar.
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every West Northamptonshire 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited | £33.1m | 1 |
| Trustmarque Solutions Limited | £10.6m | 3 |
| Steele & Bray Limited | £7.1m | 4 |
| Char.gy Limited | £7.0m | 1 |
| Stepnell Limited | £6.7m | 1 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards West Northamptonshire 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| To supply, install, maintain and operate electric vehicle charge points | Char.gy Limited | £7.0m | Competitive |
| Broadmead Court Refurbishment | Steele & Bray Limited | £3.4m | Framework call-off |
| Delivery Partner for Warm Homes: Local Grant (WH:LG) Scheme | Sureserve Energy Services UK Limited | £2.6m | Framework call-off |
| Carers Support Service | Northamptonshire Carers | £1.9m | Open |
| Hybrid Mail (Outgoing Mail) Services | PSL Print Management Ltd | £1.8m | Framework call-off |
How the money is awarded
45% of West Northamptonshire's awarded value went through open competition and 17% 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 45% (£114m)
- Framework/DPS 36% (£90.7m)
- Direct 17% (£43.7m)
- Other/Unspecified 1% (£2.7m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for West Northamptonshire, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 May 2027 | 8 | Hardware Refresh | Cdw International Limited | £3.1m |
| 3 Jan 2028 | 15 | Hybrid Mail (Outgoing Mail) Services | PSL Print Management Ltd | £1.8m |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | RAIN PFR Installation scheme | Flood Control International Ltd | £1.3m |
| 31 Dec 2026 | 3 | Pre-Development Agreement: Relating to the redevelopment of 35-45 Abington Street, Nort… | Capital & Centric (Recovery) Limited | £1.1m |
| 7 Aug 2027 | 10 | Total Energy - Daventry Leisure Centre | Total Energy Gas Supplies Limited | £642,000 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers West Northamptonshire 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 9 Jun 2026 | CLEAN Provision of a Temporary Accommodation Supplies and Services Framework April 2026The contract award criteria will include Price, Quality and Social Value, with the contract being awarded to the Most Advantageous Tenderers enabling the Council to achieve best value for money. | Cabinet |
| 15 Sep 2026 | Recommissioning of The Holiday Activity and Food Programme for West Northamptonshire | Cabinet |
| 1 Jun 2026 | Committee update on waivers and exemptions for 2025-26…requests are approved by the Chief Officer, all waiver requests exceeding £25k will then be subject to further approval centrally by the Head of Corporate Finance and Procurement and Chief Finance Officer and dependant on value the Monitoring Officer . | Audit and Governance 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 West Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire's own published papers, at https://westnorthants.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 Northamptonshire'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.