King's Lynn and West Norfolk Borough Council: UK public procurement profile
Local authority·East of England·King's Lynn
Official UK PPONPZQQ-4816-TPLWWebsitewest-norfolk.gov.uk ↗
Open now2next deadline 25 Sept 2026Notices, last 12 months69+214% vs prior 12 months (22)Typical bids per notice172.7% single-bid · 22 bid reportsTop-3 supplier share14%of 66 awarded procedures · 60 suppliersContracts ending ≤18 months224 within 6 monthsPublished award value, 24m£9.8mon 68 of 69 single-supplier awards · top 5 = 38%
Open notices
2 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installation, Maintenance, & Fault Rectification of Electronic Security Systems | 25 Sept 2026 | 8d | £150,000 |
| Sewage Treatment Plants Maintenance and Replacement of Telemetry Units | 25 Sept 2026 | 8d | £65,500 |
What they buy
Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting15 procedures · 16%45 Construction work10 procedures · 11%50 Repair and maintenance services6 procedures · 7% · 1 open90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental6 procedures · 7% · 1 open71 Architectural, construction, engineering6 procedures · 7%70 Real estate services3 procedures · 3%72 IT services: consulting, software, internet3 procedures · 3%32 Radio, television, communication2 procedures · 2% · 1 openHow they buy
Last 24 months · 91 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim
Commercial tool
- Contract 98% (89 notices)
- Framework 2% (2 notices)
Procedure route
- Direct award 31% (28 notices)
- Limited / restricted 29% (26 notices)
- Open 24% (22 notices)
- Route not published 16% (15 notices)
Typical bids per notice1robust · n=22Median of published bid reports · 72.7% of reports show a single bidder. Includes framework and DPS notices.
Deadline → award56 daysrobust · n=6Median days from submission deadline to first award notice.
Notice amendments0Median amendments per notice · 19 of 91 notices amended.
Award vs estimate19% below estimaterobust · n=8Median (estimate − award) / estimate on single-lot, single-supplier GBP pairs; vehicles excluded. Negative = awarded above estimate.
Who wins here
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RUTLAND DRAINAGE LIMITED | 3 | 4.5% | 3 | 3 | 19 Jun 2026 |
| Entec Si Limited | 3 | 4.5% | 3 | 3 | 30 Apr 2026 |
| Bucher Municipal Limited | 3 | 4.5% | 3 | 3 | 21 Aug 2025 |
| Balfour Beatty PLC | 2 | 3% | 2 | 2 | 28 Aug 2026 |
| Southbay Civil Engineering Limited | 2 | 3% | 2 | 2 | 14 Jul 2026 |
| AAFD SERVICES LTD | 1 | 1.5% | 1 | 3 | 3 Nov 2025 |
| HERTS ENVIRO SERVICES LTD | 1 | 1.5% | 1 | 2 | 22 Dec 2025 |
| HANSEATIC UNION | 1 | 1.5% | 1 | 1 | 8 Jul 2026 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 14% of 66 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 60 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards — not a statement of preference.
Published award value (24m)£9.8mSum of published values on 68 of 69 single-supplier awards; the five largest make 38%. Not spend and not a budget: notices sometimes republish a framework total or a mis-scaled figure — the largest rows are listed below so you can check.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)£60k medianrobust · n=68Middle half £38k–£174k.
| Largest published awards | Supplier | Awarded | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Refurbishment and re-modelling work to Custom House, King's Lynn | King and Company Norfolk Ltd | — | £1,288,373 † |
| Hunstanton Coastal Defence Outline Business Case and Outline Design | Balfour Beatty PLC | — | £786,540 † |
| Maintenance of Cremators and Emission Control Equipment | Facultatieve Technologies Ltd | — | £730,000 † |
| ICT Programme 1.4.26 to 30.9.26 | Entec Si Limited | — | £435,604 † |
| Place-Making, Masterplanning, Design and Professional Services in King's Lynn | BUILDING DESIGN PARTNERSHIP LIMITED | — | £431,718 † |
Contracts ending
Published end dates only · 50 of 67 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Various Resurfacing works in King's Lynn | Supreme Surfacing Ltd. | 29 Sept 2026 | £81,060 |
| Fundraising Consultant for St George's Guildhall and Creative Hub Project | Cause4 Ltd | 1 Dec 2026 | £163,080 |
| Contract Planning Officer | CARRINGTON WEST LIMITED | 22 Dec 2026 | £26,454 |
| CCTV Control Room Consoles | Thinking Space Systems Limited | 31 Dec 2026 | £29,350 |
| Payroll services | Bedford Borough Council | 31 Mar 2027 | £130,000 |
| Strategic Flood Risk Assessment and Water Cycle Study | Wallingford HydroSolutions | 26 Apr 2027 | £74,704 |
| Open Space Audit | Knight, Kavanagh & Page Ltd | 19 May 2027 | £56,050 |
| Election Printing & Software | Civica Election Services | 28 May 2027 | £300,000 |
| Cloud Based Human Resource Management System | CIPHR LIMITED | 14 Jun 2027 | £80,000 |
| Refurbishment and re-modelling work to Custom House, King's Lynn | King and Company Norfolk Ltd | 16 Jul 2027 | £1,288,373 |
Soonest 10 of 22 contracts ending within 18 months.
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 91 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hunstanton Coastal Defence - Structural Stability Monitoring | Awarded / complete | 9 Sept 2026 | — |
| Refurbishment and re-modelling work to Custom House, King's LynnBuildings of particular historical or architectural interest | Awarded / complete | 1 Sept 2026 | £1,150,000 |
| Hunstanton Coastal Defence Outline Business Case and Outline DesignCivil engineering consultancy services | Awarded / complete | 28 Aug 2026 | — |
| Design Support and Advice for Local Plan PreparationDesign consultancy services | Open | 26 Aug 2026 | £80,000 |
| Refurbishment of the Somerfield & Thomas WarehouseConstruction work for warehouses and industrial buildings | Planning | 17 Aug 2026 | £1,000,000 |
| Microsoft LicensesSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 17 Aug 2026 | — |
| Arboriculture and Landscape ServicesTree pruning | Open | 11 Aug 2026 | £498,000 |
| Daily Printing and Postage of Council Tax, Business Rates and Benefits DocumentsPostal services related to letters | Planning | 27 Jul 2026 | £450,000 |
| Open Space AuditAuditing services | Awarded / complete | 21 Jul 2026 | £96,000 |
| Fire Door Remedial Works | Awarded / complete | 16 Jul 2026 | — |
| Framework for Coastal Defence RepairsCoastal-defence works | Awarded / complete | 14 Jul 2026 | £480,000 |
| Drainage in Memorial Gardens at Mintlyn Crematorium | Awarded / complete | 10 Jul 2026 | — |
| The Mart FairGround Crossing Patrol CSAS Guards | Awarded / complete | 8 Jul 2026 | — |
| Service to support asylum seekers and reguees | Awarded / complete | 8 Jul 2026 | — |
| Paramedic - Seafront CoverMedical specialist services | Awarded / complete | 6 Jul 2026 | £240,000 |
| Payment Service Provider Fees for 'Metric' Car Parking Machines | Awarded / complete | 6 Jul 2026 | — |
| Various Resurfacing works in King's Lynn | Awarded / complete | 3 Jul 2026 | — |
| CCTV Control Room Consoles | Awarded / complete | 3 Jul 2026 | — |
| Toilet Refurbishment at Mintlyn Crematorium | Awarded / complete | 1 Jul 2026 | — |
| Sewage pumping station replacement pumps | Awarded / complete | 19 Jun 2026 | — |
Data coverage & method
- Source: Find a Tender OCDS releases; mixed PCR 2015 / Procurement Act 2023 history — no legal-regime label is applied.
- Counts are procedures (one notice family), not lots. Authority cluster = canonical buyer plus beneficiary and procuring-entity roles.
- Published procedure values exist on a minority of notices; their lifetime sum (£15m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 70 award records on 66 procedures (69 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). Typical award uses single-supplier GBP values below £5bn, excludes framework/DPS ceilings and — as a heuristic for republished framework totals — any amount repeated three or more times inside this authority’s 24-month awards; 57 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award and amendments come from the nightly buyer analytics row (v8, award-identity grain). Evidence tiers: robust ≥5, moderate 3–4, indicative 1–2.
- Contract end dates: 50 of 67 published contracts carry a period end; 22 end within 18 months, 4 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (4 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)
Official notices referenced this authority under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.
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