Southend-on-Sea City Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITYONS register: Local-authority-districtSocial housing register: Local authorityNHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACYLocal authorityEast of EnglandSouthend-on-SeaRan 1 procurement for other authorities

Official UK PPONPJDT-6566-GZNX

Open now1next deadline 1 Dec 2026

Notices, last 12 months125+67% vs prior 12 months (75)

Typical bids per lot40% single-bid · median of 14 lots

Based on 14 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Top-3 supplier share11%of 393 awarded procedures · 325 suppliers

393 awarded tenders, 325 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months7941 within 6 months · 2 estimated

Published award value, 24m£31mnet · on 157 of 157 published values · top 5 = 54%

Open notices

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

Notice	Deadline	Days left	Published value
Dynamic Market for Direct Payment Payroll and Managed Account ServicesDPS	1 Dec 2026	16d	—

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

45 Construction work21 procedures · 11%

85 Health and social work services20 procedures · 10%

48 Software package and information systems17 procedures · 9%

34 Transport equipment and products13 procedures · 7%

98 Other community, social and personal services11 procedures · 6%

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting9 procedures · 5% · 1 open

50 Repair and maintenance services9 procedures · 5%

72 IT services: consulting, software, internet8 procedures · 4%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 200 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool

Contract96%(191 notices)
191 of 200 notices are Contract (96%).
Framework4%(8 notices)
8 of 200 notices are Framework (4%).
Dynamic purchasing system1%(1 notice)
1 of 200 notices is Dynamic purchasing system (1%).

Procedure route

Route not published55%(110 notices)
110 of 200 notices are Route not published (55%).
Open17%(34 notices)
34 of 200 notices are Open (17%).
Direct award16%(32 notices)
32 of 200 notices are Direct award (16%).
Limited / restricted11%(22 notices)
22 of 200 notices are Limited / restricted (11%).
Selective1%(2 notices)
2 of 200 notices are Selective (1%).

Typical bids per lot

Based on 14 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

4robust · n=140% of lots drew a single bid

Deadline → award

Based on 13 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

63 daysrobust · n=13

Notice amendments

Based on 197 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

021 of 197 notices amended

Award vs estimate

Based on 7 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

0.9% below estimaterobust · n=7

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
R & A Mechanical Services Ltd	19	4.8%	12	19	2 Apr 2026
Edmunds Design & Construction Ltd	17	4.3%	15	17	28 Sept 2022
Southend Association of Voluntary Servicesframework/DPS on 2	6	1.5%	4	6	3 Jun 2026
Ernest Doe & Sons Ltdframework/DPS on 1	6	1.5%	0	10	15 May 2024
Ford Motor Company Ltdframework/DPS on 1	6	1.5%	0	6	24 Jan 2022
Peopletoo Ltd	5	1.3%	5	6	—
Mott MacDonald	5	1.3%	3	5	5 Jan 2026
31ten Consulting	4	1%	4	6	30 May 2025

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 11% of 393 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 325 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)

£31mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 157 of 157 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 54%; a further 17 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.

Typical single-supplier award (24m)

£58k middle valuerobust · n=157Middle half £36k–£104k.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
SHF Wave 3 Design and Build (Heat Pumps 2025)	Kensa Contracting Limited	—	—	£7,200,000 †
Drug and Alcohol Treatment and Recovery Services Contract	The Forward Trust	—	—	£3,134,851 †
Intelligent Transport Systems including traffic signals, variable message signs and car park signs	Yunex Limited	4 Aug 2026	4 yrs · up to 8 yrs	£3,000,000 ≈ £750k/yr
SCC - Design and Build of Affordable Dwellings at Lundy Close, Eastwood, Southend-on-Sea	Auburn Group Limited	—	—	£2,102,750 †
SCC - Design and Construction of 3 New Houses to Passivhaus / Future Homes Standard Principles	A.W. HARDY & CO. LIMITED	—	11 mo	£1,061,515 †

Contracts ending
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406 of 432 contracts carry an end date, 22 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
Civic Centre Council Chamber Microphone Replacement	VP-AV Limited	17 Nov 2026	£104,239
Milton Hall Primary School - Roof Replacement and Repair	Edmunds Design & Construction Ltd	27 Nov 2026	£44,060
Parks and Open Spaces Fuel Requirement 2025	Certas Energy UK Limited	9 Dec 2026	£70,000
Head of Service Recruitment	Tile Hill Interim & Executive Ltd	16 Dec 2026	£150,000
The Continuation of Pre-Construction Activities and the Provision of Early Works - Leigh Port Regeneration via SCAPE Civil Engineering Generation 3 Framework	Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited	31 Dec 2026	£700,000
Accredited Commissioning training	THE ECM GROUP LIMITED	31 Dec 2026	£30,000
Multi modal transport model exception	Mott MacDonald	31 Dec 2026	£185,000
Better Queensway - Housing Consultancy Support	31ten Consulting	31 Dec 2026	£58,200
Strategic Planning - Water Cycle Study 2025	Wallingford Hydrosolutions Ltd	1 Jan 2027	£23,000
Nestuda Way and Eastwoodbury Lane Feasibility Study	Pell Frischmann Consultants Ltd	1 Jan 2027	£17,979

Soonest 10 of 79 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 262 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
Fairways Primary School Boiler Replacement	Awarded / complete	22 Jul 2026	—
Passenger Transport Services (SEND, Children's Social Care, Adults with Learning DisabilitiesHire of passenger transport vehicles with driver	Planning	17 Jul 2026	—
Southend Adult Community College Roof Repairs	Awarded / complete	16 Jul 2026	—
Occupational Therapy - Maintenance, Inspection and Repair Service for Lifting EquipmentRepair and maintenance services	Awarded / complete	16 Jul 2026	£450,000
Consultancy Support to Deliver the Families First Partnership Programme	Awarded / complete	15 Jul 2026	—
Central Museum Facade Repairs and Cleaning	Awarded / complete	14 Jul 2026	—
Provision of a Care at Home FrameworkFramework7 lotsHealth and social work services	Awarded / complete	13 Jul 2026	£110,000,000
CHALKWELL HALL JUNIOR SCHOOL AND CHALKWELL INFANT SCHOOL CATERING SERVICE CONTRACT	Awarded / complete	13 Jul 2026	—
Pier Track Decking	Awarded / complete	9 Jul 2026	—

Search all 262 procedures for this authority →

Contracts Finder adds 264 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. 406 of 432 published contracts have an end date; 22 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.