Essex County Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITYONS register: County-or-unitary-authorityNHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACYLocal authorityEast of EnglandChelmsfordRan 40 procurements for other authorities

Official UK PPONPWVM-4844-NRQH

Open now1next deadline 24 Nov 2026

Notices, last 12 months1060% vs prior 12 months (106)

Typical bids per lot413% single-bid · median of 69 lots

Based on 69 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Top-3 supplier share4%of 568 awarded procedures · 1,332 suppliers

568 awarded tenders, 1,332 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months16451 within 6 months · 32 estimated

Published award value, 24m£878mnet · on 99 of 99 published values · top 5 = 86%

Open notices

1 live · deadline in the future or not published · as of page build

Notice	Deadline	Days left	Published value
Arboriculture Works to Urban and Rural Trees, Rochfordprocuring entity	24 Nov 2026	9d	£420,000

What they buy
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Last 24 months · CPV divisions on published procedures · a notice with several divisions counts in each

85 Health and social work services52 procedures · 25%

72 IT services: consulting, software, internet40 procedures · 19%

48 Software package and information systems36 procedures · 17%

45 Construction work33 procedures · 16%

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting18 procedures · 8%

71 Architectural, construction, engineering16 procedures · 8%

80 Education and training services15 procedures · 7%

50 Repair and maintenance services9 procedures · 4%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 212 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool

Contract92%(195 notices)
195 of 212 notices are Contract (92%).
Framework8%(16 notices)
16 of 212 notices are Framework (8%).
Dynamic purchasing system0%(1 notice)
1 of 212 notices is Dynamic purchasing system (0%).

Procedure route

Route not published37%(79 notices)
79 of 212 notices are Route not published (37%).
Open27%(57 notices)
57 of 212 notices are Open (27%).
Limited / restricted19%(41 notices)
41 of 212 notices are Limited / restricted (19%).
Direct award12%(26 notices)
26 of 212 notices are Direct award (12%).
Selective4%(9 notices)
9 of 212 notices are Selective (4%).

Typical bids per lot

Based on 69 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

4robust · n=6913% of lots drew a single bid

Deadline → award

Based on 43 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

47 daysrobust · n=43

Notice amendments

Based on 212 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

058 of 212 notices amended

Award vs estimate

Based on 51 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=51

Who wins here
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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
Phoenix Software Ltd	8	1.4%	3	8	19 Aug 2025
Specialist Computer Centres Plc	7	1.2%	0	7	8 Dec 2023
Gartner UK Limited	6	1.1%	4	6	29 Jul 2026
Potter Raper Ltd	5	0.9%	5	5	20 Aug 2026
Phelan Constructionframework/DPS on 1	5	0.9%	4	5	16 Jul 2026
Daniel Robinson and Sons Limitedframework/DPS on 1	5	0.9%	2	6	17 Jul 2026
Provide CiCframework/DPS on 1	5	0.9%	2	5	1 Mar 2021
InterAct (Chelmsford) Ltd	5	0.9%	2	5	23 Jan 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 4% of 568 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 1,332 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)

£878mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 99 of 99 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 86%; a further 42 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.

Typical single-supplier award (24m)

£178k middle valuerobust · n=99Middle half £60k–£1.1m.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
Total Facilities Management	Equans Services Limited	6 Oct 2026	10.4 yrs · up to 15.4 yrs	£637,722,000 ≈ £61m/yr
Temporary Worker Support Services	Matrix SCM	4 Nov 2026	2 yrs · up to 4 yrs	£48,000,000 ≈ £24m/yr
Persistent Organic Pollutants Waste Treatment Contract	COUNTRYSTYLE RECYCLING LIMITED	26 May 2026	1 yrs · up to 11 yrs	£28,407,872 ≈ £28m/yr
D001PA Managed Network Services	MLL Telecom Ltd	30 Mar 2026	7 yrs · up to 13.1 yrs	£24,208,000 ≈ £3.5m/yr
Housing Related Support - Floating Support	Peabody Trust	21 Nov 2025	5 yrs · up to 7 yrs	£17,500,000 ≈ £3.5m/yr

Contracts ending
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851 of 968 contracts carry an end date, 272 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
CO0113 Staff Rewards & Benefits	Reward Gateway (UK) LTD	22 Nov 2026 estimated	£200,000
ECC Homes for Ukraine Trauma Support & Counselling for children, adults and families - South quadrant	South East and Central Essex Mind Limited	26 Nov 2026	£25,000
E037PA - Operation Vanguard	MY LOCAL BOBBY LIMITED	13 Dec 2026	£117,936
FS-Case-870991613 - WAIVER - Town Centre Security Service	MY LOCAL BOBBY LIMITED	13 Dec 2026	£150,000
FHP assurance Scope of Services	Bird & Bird LLP	16 Dec 2026	£32,000
Early Intervention & Prevention in Mental Health and Wellbeing	Social Care Institute for Excellence	21 Dec 2026	£47,500
Provision of Microsoft Volume Licensing Agreement & Unified Support	Phoenix Software Ltd	31 Dec 2026	£12,611,812
Communal Cleaning Contract	Clean Green Cleaning Services Ltd	31 Dec 2026	£107,484
Hadleigh Country Park Pump Tracks	BACK-ON-TRACK MOUNTAIN BIKE SOLUTIONS LIMITED	31 Dec 2026	£173,440
Corporate Prepaid Cards Service procured via RM6248 - Lot 2 Payment Solution 2 Crown Commercial Service Framework.	allpay Limited	1 Jan 2027	£60,000

Soonest 10 of 164 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 479 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
E037PA - Operation Vanguard	Awarded / complete	14 Sept 2026	—
Home-to-Assess Care Services5 lotsHealth and social work services	Awarded / complete	11 Sept 2026	£11,500,000
Mid ARC-Supporting Therapy Contract	Awarded / complete	11 Sept 2026	—
Account Payable Audit SolutionInformation technology services	Awarded / complete	8 Sept 2026	£80,000
Framework for Large Print and Spoken Word BooksFramework2 lotsLibrary books	Open	7 Sept 2026	£260,000
Social Care Leadership ProgrammeTraining services	Awarded / complete	3 Sept 2026	£435,000
PCSA Contract - Milton Road and Victoria Street Redevelopment Projectsprocuring entityConstruction work	Awarded / complete	27 Aug 2026	£2,785,000
C024PA - Deceased Collection and Transport Service for Mid and South EssexFramework4 lotsFuneral and related services	Awarded / complete	26 Aug 2026	£1,100,000
Materials MarketingRefuse and waste related services	Planned	21 Aug 2026	£4,000,000

Search all 479 procedures for this authority →

Contracts Finder adds 455 more procedures by this authority, mostly below the Find a Tender threshold or from before 2025. Each is counted once beside any Find a Tender copy; they are in the totals, not in this list or in search.

About this data

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. 851 of 968 published contracts have an end date; 272 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. Published values in that list come from either source; Contracts Finder figures are shown as published and stay out of this profile’s money totals.
Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.