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Wigan: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.

Wigan is a metropolitan borough in the North West. We hold 612 of its award notices, 46 contracts due to end within 18 months, and 5 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)

612
Award notices on record, 2021 to 2026
397
Distinct suppliers
£746m
Total awarded value, 2021 to 2026
231
Papers read in four months
9
Committees tracked

GovLeads reads Wigan's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 441 of those 612 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.

Next committee meetings

The next 5 scheduled meetings at Wigan, taken from the council's own calendar. Papers usually appear five clear working days beforehand, and we read them the night they land.

DateCommittee
21 Sep 2026Progress with Unity Scrutiny Committee
23 Sep 2026Council
24 Sep 2026Cabinet
9 Oct 2026Regulation Committee
22 Oct 2026Cabinet

Source: Wigan's published committee calendar.

Biggest suppliers

Ranked by total awarded value across every Wigan 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.

SupplierAwarded valueAwards
Standard Fuel Oils Limited£126m2
Agilisys£79.0m2
A.Connolly£34.5m9
British Gas Social Housing Ltd t/a PH Jones£25.2m2
We Are With You£19.0m2

Largest awards of the last 12 months

The biggest awards Wigan 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.

AwardSupplierValueRoute
Liquid Fuels TenderStandard Fuel Oils Ltd£125mFramework call-off
Wigan Council - Planned Cyclical Maintenance4 award notices, shown onceframework, 2 suppliers£29.5mOther
670 - Heating Servicing and Maintenance ContractBritish Gas Social Housing Ltd t/a PH Jones£21.3mOther
PSR005 - 0-19 Services: Healthy Child ProgrammeWrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Trust£13.9mDirect award
Wigan Council Damp & Mould Remedial WorksA.Connolly£13.6mOther

How the money is awarded

48% of Wigan's awarded value went through open competition and 8% 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 48% (£359m)
  • Other/Unspecified 22% (£168m)
  • Framework/DPS 22% (£161m)
  • Direct 8% (£58.6m)

Contracts expiring within 18 months

The 5 largest by value on record for Wigan, 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.

EndsMonths leftContractSupplierValue
21 Nov 20262Liquid Fuels TenderStandard Fuel Oils Ltd£125m
31 Dec 20263Wigan Council - Demolition and Construction at Logwood Place, WiganSeddon Construction Ltd£14.5m
31 Mar 20276265.4 (Lot 4 of The Deal 2030 Care and Support Ethical Framework) - Extra Care5 award notices, shown onceframework, 5 suppliers£10.4m
31 May 20278Wigan Council - Heating Replacement Contract2 award notices, shown onceframework, 2 suppliers£8.9m
30 Sep 2026under 1Wigan Council - Disrepair Contract2 award notices, shown onceframework, 2 suppliers£5.9m

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Procurement radar

Committee papers Wigan 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.

5 of 231 papers, in Wigan’s own words
MeetingPaperCommittee
7 Sep 2026Mission Driven ProcurementSeveral well-attended pre-market engagement events have taken place this year ahead of significant tender opportunities being published, including the Community Living Ethical Framework, and the Housing Repairs and Maintenance Service, which was attended by 200+ suppliers.Progress with Unity Scrutiny Committee
4 Sep 2026Standish Woodfold Primary - Expansion - Tender AcceptanceDirector - Place
2 Sep 2026PA054 - Community Living Ethical FrameworkThe Framework will be the Council’s primary mechanism for commissioning with confidence ethical providers who deliver strengths based, community focused support, while recognising and valuing the essential contribution of their workforce.Portfolio Holder for Adult Social Care and Health (Deputy Leader)

Showing the 3 strongest matches of 5. This is the raw feed, not the brief: a subscriber gets the handful that match their business, scored, with the so-what written out. Start a free trial.

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 Wigan 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 Wigan. 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 Wigan's own published papers, at https://democracy.wigan.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 Wigan'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.

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