Wokingham: which contracts run out next, and who holds them.
Wokingham is a unitary authority in the South East. We hold 673 of its award notices, 78 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)
GovLeads reads Wokingham's papers every weeknight. A value is published on 628 of those 673 award notices, so the total is a floor, not the council's spend.
Next committee meetings
The next 5 scheduled meetings at Wokingham, 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 |
|---|---|
| 23 Sep 2026 | Audit Committee |
| 24 Sep 2026 | Executive |
| 28 Sep 2026 | SACRE (Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education) |
| 12 Oct 2026 | Joint Public Protection Committee |
| 13 Oct 2026 | Overview and Scrutiny Management Committee |
Biggest suppliers
Ranked by total awarded value across every Wokingham 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biffa Waste Services Ltd | £128m | 2 |
| Caterlink Limited | £6.0m | 1 |
| Birkin Cleaning Services Limited | £3.9m | 2 |
| Francis Construction | £3.6m | 1 |
| Gilmartins Ltd | £3.0m | 2 |
Largest awards of the last 12 months
The biggest awards Wokingham 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waste and Recycling Collection and Street Cleansing Services | Biffa Waste Services Ltd | £128m | Open |
| In-reach Housing First and outreach rough sleeping support | Two Saints | £272,272 | Direct award |
| WBCF2 Bus Service | Horseman Coaches Ltd | £210,546 | Other |
| Homelessness case management software license | MRI Software Limited | £89,459 | Direct award |
| WBCSENOB315 - The Avenue School2 award notices, shown once | framework, 2 suppliers | £47,120 | Restricted |
How the money is awarded
91% of Wokingham's awarded value went through open competition and 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 91% (£171m)
- Other/Unspecified 8% (£15.8m)
- Direct 1% (£1.6m)
Contracts expiring within 18 months
The 5 largest by value on record for Wokingham, 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 Aug 2027 | 11 | BUILDING CLEANING SERVICES | Birkin Cleaning Services Limited | £3.9m |
| 30 Sep 2027 | 12 | Tree Maintenance Framework10 award notices, shown once | framework, 10 suppliers | £1.1m |
| 8 May 2027 | 7 | Lot 10 - Public Service Vehicles for local bus routes with various capacities for up to… | Reading Buses | £471,488 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Bikeability Training 2024 - 2027 | Avanti Cycling | £441,244 |
| 31 Mar 2027 | 6 | Property Insurance of Leasehold Flats and Shared Ownership Properties excluding Broker… | Aspen Insurance UK Limtied | £395,766 |
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Procurement radar
Committee papers Wokingham 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Jun 2026 | Resource Base/Unit Contract AwardThe estimated combined value of the contracts and SLAs over the initial five-year period is approximately £7.5 million, comprising both commissioned place funding and top-up funding. | Executive |
| 28 May 2026 | Local Bus Service ProcurementOther Financial Information Two school coach services (202 and 244) are currently procured from the Childrens Services budget are included in the tender process. | Executive |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Progress update of High Needs Block Banding Framework & ImplementationThe purpose of this report is to provide Schools Forum with a comprehensive update on the first year of implementation of the High Needs Banding Framework introduced from April 2025. | Schools Forum |
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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 Wokingham 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 Wokingham. 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 Wokingham's own published papers, at https://wokingham.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 Wokingham'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.