Suffolk County Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY·ONS register: County-or-unitary-authority·NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACY·Local authority·East of England·Ipswich·Ran 2 procurements for other authorities
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed, counted the way the search counts them: a notice shows under every code and region it names.
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Notices published in the last 12 months.
Counted per tender, not per lot, against the 12 months before where shown.
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 21 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How much of this buyer’s work goes to its three most frequent suppliers.
Share of its awarded tenders that name at least one of the top three. Each tender is counted once.
645 awarded tenders, 323 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
6 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Age Advocacy Services | 29 Oct 2026 | 3d | £5,438,400 |
| Nicotine Replacement Therapy and Smoking Cessation Medication Postal Supply within Suffolk | 3 Nov 2026 | 8d | £400,000 |
| Suffolk County Music Service County Music Groups Concert Tours 2027 | 10 Nov 2026 | 15d | £185,000 |
| Extension of existing Alternative Education Rolling Select List | 31 Jul 2027 | 278d | £60,000,000 |
| Extension of existing Dynamic Purchasing System of Suffolk Adult and Community Learning Services | 23 Feb 2029 | 851d | £7,290,000 |
| Extension of existing Dynamic Purchasing System for the Supply of Passenger Transport Services | 23 Feb 2029 | 851d | £600,000,000 |
What they buyi
What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
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What kind of work is bought here.
Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
85 Health and social work services34 procedures · 27% · 2 open80 Education and training services30 procedures · 24% · 2 open45 Construction work6 procedures · 5%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet5 procedures · 4%48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 3%71 Architectural, construction, engineering4 procedures · 3%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 3%90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental4 procedures · 3%How they buyi
How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Last 24 months · 125 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
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How work here is packaged.
Notices by commercial tool: a single contract, a framework, or a dynamic purchasing system.
Contract91%(114 notices)
114 of 125 notices are Contract (91%).Framework6%(8 notices)
8 of 125 notices are Framework (6%).Dynamic purchasing system2%(3 notices)
3 of 125 notices are Dynamic purchasing system (2%).
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Which procedures buyers here use.
Notices by the procedure they declare: open, selective, limited or direct. Open and selective are competitions; limited and direct are not.
Route not published34%(43 notices)
43 of 125 notices are Route not published (34%).Open26%(33 notices)
33 of 125 notices are Open (26%).Direct award23%(29 notices)
29 of 125 notices are Direct award (23%).Limited / restricted13%(16 notices)
16 of 125 notices are Limited / restricted (13%).Selective3%(4 notices)
4 of 125 notices are Selective (3%).
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How many companies usually bid when this buyer runs a tender.
Middle value of the bid counts on its award notices, one per lot. Only real competitions count: direct awards and framework places are left out.
Based on 21 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.
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How long this buyer takes to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 14 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on 125 notices across all categories, last 24 months.
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Do this buyer’s awards land above or below its own estimates.
Each lot’s published estimate against its award, on this buyer’s competitions, like for like.
Based on 10 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
Who wins herei
Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
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Which suppliers win the most here.
Suppliers ranked by the number of tenders won, not by money. A supplier on one big framework with many call-offs does not outrank one that won many separate competitions.
All published awards naming a supplier · ranked by distinct procedures, not pounds · panel and call-off entries inflate award records
| Supplier | Procedures | Share | Last 24m | Award records | Last activity |
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| 405 cab co | 36 | 5.6% | 0 | 36 | — |
| Unity travel ltd | 26 | 4% | 0 | 26 | — |
| Phoenix Travel Contracts Limited | 25 | 3.9% | 0 | 25 | — |
| First Stop Travel East Anglia LTD | 22 | 3.4% | 0 | 22 | — |
| Star Cabs Ltd | 20 | 3.1% | 0 | 20 | — |
| Cabs Smart | 18 | 2.8% | 0 | 18 | — |
| Cliff Project Management | 16 | 2.5% | 0 | 16 | — |
| Atlas Private Hire Ltd | 16 | 2.5% | 0 | 16 | — |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 645 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 323 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of published VAT-exclusive awards to single suppliers, last 24 months. Left out: concession revenue, framework ceilings, repeated notices, equal-value duplicates.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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The middle published award value for this buyer.
Middle value of the same awards as the total above.
Largest published awards iThe biggest published awards. Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice. A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check. | Supplier | Awarded | Term | Published value |
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| Discharge to Access (D2A) beds contract for Ipswich & East | Athena Care Homes (UK) Limited | 19 May 2026 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £7,590,000 ≈ £2.5m/yr |
| Dual placement (2-bed) residential children's home for Suffolk children in care aged 12-17 years including those aged 17 years | CF Support Services Limited | 9 Sept 2026 | 2 yrs · up to 3 yrs | £3,500,000 ≈ £1.8m/yr |
| Short Term Enablement | Leading Lives | 3 Sept 2025 | 2 yrs · up to 4 yrs | £2,806,880 ≈ £1.4m/yr |
| Therapeutic support and mental health services for children in care | Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust | — | — | £2,804,546 † |
| Lot 2 Lowestoft Transfer Station | Envar Composting Limited | — | — | £2,797,641 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Contracts ending in that window by the published end date or, where only a duration is published, an estimate from signature plus duration (marked). Neither, not counted.
An end date does not confirm a new procurement.
157 of 760 contracts carry an end date, 2 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| Recruitment of up to 13 FTE Locum Social Workers | Leaders In Care Recruitment Ltd | 30 Oct 2026 | £485,000 |
| Oral Health Promotion Service | Community Dental Services CIC | 31 Oct 2026 | £300,000 |
| Supply of Recruitment and Executive Search Services | Tile Hill Interim & Executive Ltd | 25 Nov 2026 | £166,666 |
| Independent Complaints Investigators | RRC (RRCONSULTANCY) LTD | 1 Dec 2026 | £100,000 |
| Village Hall Rain Garden Little Blakenham | Mixbrow Construction | 31 Dec 2026 | £30,859 |
| Consultancy Services Transport East | GRANT THORNTON UK ADVISORY & TAX LLP | 1 Feb 2027 | £60,000 |
| Independent Mobility Assessments | Access Independent Ltd | 18 Feb 2027 | £120,000 |
| Brecks Area | GD and SA Garnham | 31 Mar 2027 | £53,760 |
| Deben Peninsula | Impact Landscaping East Anglia Limited | 31 Mar 2027 | £73,200 |
| Debenham area | CDC Blowers | 31 Mar 2027 | £62,400 |
Soonest 10 of 58 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 795 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- One profile per authority. Different spellings and registration numbers of the same body are merged into this profile. It includes tenders the authority ran for other bodies and tenders run on its behalf; spend is credited to the body that pays.
- Values are published values. Award values are what the authority published, excluding VAT and framework ceilings. They are not a budget or total spend.
- Contract end dates. 157 of 760 published contracts have an end date; 2 of those are estimated as the signature (or publication) date plus the published duration and are marked “estimated”. They feed “Contracts ending”, the same rule as the retender radar.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.