Chelmsford City Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile
NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY·ONS register: Local-authority-district·Social housing register: Local authority·Local authority·East of England·Chelmsford·Ran 3 procurements for other authorities
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Tenders you can still bid for.
Notices at tender stage whose deadline has not passed.
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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 12 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.
46 awarded tenders, 63 different suppliers.
Describes the record. It is not a sign of favouritism.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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How much this buyer has awarded recently, by published values.
Sum of award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
Open notices
1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build
| Notice | Deadline | Days left | Published value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auditorium Seating Replacement and Installation Works at Chelmsford Theatre | 20 Oct 2026 | 20d | £250,000 |
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
45 Construction work9 procedures · 20% · 1 open48 Software package and information systems5 procedures · 11%66 Financial and insurance services5 procedures · 11%50 Repair and maintenance services4 procedures · 9%71 Architectural, construction, engineering4 procedures · 9%34 Transport equipment and products3 procedures · 7%70 Real estate services3 procedures · 7%79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting3 procedures · 7%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 · 45 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.
- Contract 84% (38 notices)
- Framework 11% (5 notices)
- Dynamic purchasing system 4% (2 notices)
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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.
- Open 40% (18 notices)
- Limited / restricted 33% (15 notices)
- Direct award 22% (10 notices)
- Selective 4% (2 notices)
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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 12 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 deadline to first award notice, on this buyer’s own tenders.
Based on 8 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 45 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 4 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months. Small sample.
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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| Phoenix Software Ltd | 2 | 4.3% | 2 | 2 | 13 Oct 2025 |
| GRANT THORNTON UK LLP | 2 | 4.3% | 2 | 2 | 13 Jul 2026 |
| DAC Planning Ltd | 2 | 4.3% | 2 | 2 | 24 Sept 2026 |
| Soft Surfaces Limited | 2 | 4.3% | 1 | 2 | 19 May 2026 |
| Abacus Playgrounds Ltd | 2 | 4.3% | 1 | 2 | 19 May 2026 |
| Link CCTV Systems Limited | 1 | 2.2% | 1 | 2 | 22 May 2025 |
| HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED | 1 | 2.2% | 1 | 1 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| Softcat Plc | 1 | 2.2% | 1 | 1 | 1 Dec 2025 |
The three most frequent suppliers are named on 13% of 46 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 63 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 award values to single suppliers, VAT excluded, on notices from the last 24 months. Framework ceilings and repeated totals are left out.
Published values, not actual spend. The biggest rows are listed so you can check.
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What one of this buyer’s contracts is usually worth.
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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| PR-10227-Uttlesford DC Repairs, Voids and Planned Contract | Axis Europe | — | — | £86,000,000 † |
| Election Printing and Electoral Registration Printing | CIVICA ELECTION SERVICES LIMITED | 15 Oct 2025 | 3 yrs · up to 5 yrs | £1,250,000 ≈ £417k/yr |
| HVO Fuel Provision | Certas Energy UK Limited | — | — | £1,000,000 † |
| HR & Payroll System | Softcat Plc | — | — | £767,000 † |
| Uttlesford District Council Security Services | Regency Guarding and Events Ltd | — | — | £600,000 † |
Contracts endingi
Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.
Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.
A likely retender, not a certain one.
Published end dates only · 18 of 55 contracts carry one · not a retender forecast
| Contract | Holder | Ends | Published value |
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| High Chelmer lifts Refurbishment Project | Liftec Express Ltd | 30 Sept 2026 | £410,000 |
| Local Plan Examination Support | DAC Planning Ltd | 11 Dec 2026 | £60,000 |
| Hylands House Boiler Replacement Works | CLAIRGLOW HEATING LTD | 12 Dec 2026 | £455,000 |
| Cemetery and Crematorium Design – Land North of Bakers Lane | CEMETERY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES LIMITED | 31 Dec 2026 | £225,000 |
| Building Control Management Services | SARTO THOMAS LIMITED | 30 Jan 2027 | £192,000 |
| Leisure Automated Sales Agent | KEEPME LTD | 29 Apr 2027 | £36,000 |
| ESPO Supply of plastic sacks and food waste liners | SAI-PAC UK LTD | 10 May 2027 | £166,810 |
Recent procedures
Latest 50 of 63 procedures on this authority cluster, incl. beneficiary and procuring-entity roles
| Procedure | Status | Published | Published value |
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| Building Control Management Services | Awarded / complete | 8 Apr 2026 | — |
| Housing Benefit Assurance ProcessFinancial and insurance services | Awarded / complete | 9 Mar 2026 | — |
| High Chelmer lifts Refurbishment Project | Awarded / complete | 6 Jan 2026 | — |
| Temporary Staff Master Vendor Contract- Loaders, Drivers & Parks OperativesSupply services of personnel including temporary staff | Awarded / complete | 23 Dec 2025 | — |
| In-Cab Route Optimisation SystemSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 22 Dec 2025 | — |
| HR & Payroll SystemSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 1 Dec 2025 | — |
| Local Plan Representation Processing and Analysis | Awarded / complete | 18 Nov 2025 | — |
| Local Plan Masterplanning Support | Awarded / complete | 18 Nov 2025 | — |
| Mini-Competition for Wi-Fi Services under RM6116 Lot2a: Intra Site ConnectivityIT services: consulting | Awarded / complete | 15 Oct 2025 | — |
| Microsoft Azure Service and Cloud EnrollmentSoftware package and information systems | Awarded / complete | 13 Oct 2025 | — |
| Taxi consumables frameworkDigital printing services | Awarded / complete | 24 Sept 2025 | £200,000 |
| Chelmer Waterside Residential Development Scheme in ChelmsfordArchitectural and related services | Open | 23 Sept 2025 | £250,000,000 |
| Cemetery and Crematorium Design – Land North of Bakers LaneArchitectural | Awarded / complete | 18 Sept 2025 | £180,000 |
| Refurbishment of 5 Avon Road, Chelmsford | Awarded / complete | 18 Sept 2025 | — |
| Merchant ServicesBanking services | Awarded / complete | 29 Aug 2025 | £800,000 |
| Cashless Pay on Foot Parking Equipment & MaintenanceInstallation services of parking meter equipment | Awarded / complete | 20 Aug 2025 | — |
| HVO Fuel ProvisionFuels | Awarded / complete | 22 Jul 2025 | — |
| Heating Equipment Replacement | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2025 | — |
| Heat Pump Replacement | Awarded / complete | 2 Jul 2025 | — |
| Chelmsford City Council Building Services DPSBuilding services | Open | 26 Jun 2025 | £14,250,000 |
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 (£342m, ceilings stripped) is a catalogue fact, not spend, and is not shown as a headline.
- Awards on procedures published in the last 24 months: 40 award records on 34 procedures (39 to a single canonical supplier, 1 multi-supplier). 23 values come from the contract record when the award carried none.
- Bid counts, deadline-to-award, amendments and award-vs-estimate come from the nightly buyer analytics row; each figure’s own method and sample is behind its , the long form on Methodology.
- Contract end dates: 18 of 55 published contracts carry a period end; 7 end within 18 months, 5 within 6.
- Never shown: contact details, predicted winners, payment behaviour, or “who to invite”.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (10 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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