Suffolk County Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITYONS register: County-or-unitary-authorityNHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACYLocal authorityEast of EnglandIpswichRan 2 procurements for other authorities

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Open now4next deadline 8 Dec 2026

Notices, last 12 months69+23% vs prior 12 months (56)

Typical bids per lot54.8% single-bid · median of 21 lots

Based on 21 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Top-3 supplier share10%of 977 awarded procedures · 533 suppliers

977 awarded tenders, 533 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months12236 within 6 months

Published award value, 24m£50mnet · on 75 of 75 published values · top 5 = 39%

Open notices

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

Notice	Deadline	Days left	Published value
Public Rights of Way - Grass Cutting16 lots	8 Dec 2026	23d	£775,000
Extension of existing Alternative Education Rolling Select List4 lots	31 Jul 2027	257d	£60,000,000
Extension of existing Dynamic Purchasing System of Suffolk Adult and Community Learning ServicesDPS2 lots	23 Feb 2029	831d	£7,290,000
Extension of existing Dynamic Purchasing System for the Supply of Passenger Transport ServicesDPS2 lots	23 Feb 2029	831d	£600,000,000

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

60 Transport services (except waste transport)83 procedures · 66% · 1 open

80 Education and training services67 procedures · 54% · 2 open

85 Health and social work services43 procedures · 34%

72 IT services: consulting, software, internet28 procedures · 22%

45 Construction work21 procedures · 17%

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting14 procedures · 11%

98 Other community, social and personal services9 procedures · 7%

34 Transport equipment and products7 procedures · 6%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 125 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool

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%).

Procedure route

Route not published36%(45 notices)
45 of 125 notices are Route not published (36%).
Open27%(34 notices)
34 of 125 notices are Open (27%).
Direct award23%(29 notices)
29 of 125 notices are Direct award (23%).
Limited / restricted10%(12 notices)
12 of 125 notices are Limited / restricted (10%).
Selective4%(5 notices)
5 of 125 notices are Selective (4%).

Typical bids per lot

Based on 21 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

5robust · n=214.8% of lots drew a single bid

Deadline → award

Based on 14 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

57 daysrobust · n=14

Notice amendments

Based on 124 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

038 of 124 notices amended

Award vs estimate

Based on 10 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=10

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
405 cab co	39	4%	1	39	7 May 2025
Unity travel ltd	30	3.1%	2	30	30 Sept 2026
Phoenix Travel Contracts Limited	25	2.6%	0	25	—
Star Cabs Ltd	22	2.3%	2	22	25 Aug 2026
First Stop Travel East Anglia LTD	22	2.3%	0	22	—
Cabs Smart	18	1.8%	0	18	—
Cliff Project Management	16	1.6%	0	16	—
Atlas Private Hire Ltd	16	1.6%	0	16	—

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 10% of 977 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 533 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)

£50mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 75 of 75 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 39%; a further 9 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.

Typical single-supplier award (24m)

£225k middle valuerobust · n=75Middle half £95k–£675k.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
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 ending
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491 of 1,094 contracts carry an end date, 2 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
SCC0128IB	Ginger Nut Media Ltd	18 Nov 2026	£270,000
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
SCC0166VA	BPP Professional Education Ltd	18 Dec 2026	£190,000
Actuarial Consultancy - AWARD	Hymans Robertson LLP	31 Dec 2026	Not published
Children and Young People (CYP) Website Design and Promotion - AWARD	DDM Health Ltd	31 Dec 2026	£175,000
Investment Consultancy - AWARD	Hymans Robertson LLP	31 Dec 2026	Not published
Village Hall Rain Garden Little Blakenham	Mixbrow Construction	31 Dec 2026	£30,859
Feel Good Suffolk Evaluation - AWARD	Health Innovation East	7 Jan 2027	£118,601
Consultancy Services Transport East	GRANT THORNTON UK ADVISORY & TAX LLP	1 Feb 2027	£60,000

Soonest 10 of 122 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 797 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
Debt Collection Service	Awarded / complete	11 Nov 2026	—
Best Start Family Hub Information Management SystemSoftware package and information systems	Planning	10 Nov 2026	£166,667
AI AVATAR (Suffolk Economy)IT services: consulting	Cancelled	5 Nov 2026	£50,000
Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service - Learning Management System/Virtual Learning EnvironmentE-learning services	Planning	4 Nov 2026	£70,000
Oxlip House Extra Care Housing ServicesSocial work and related services	Planning	2 Nov 2026	£3,700,000
Norfolk and Suffolk Skills Bootcamps (2027/2028)Education and training services	Withdrawn	30 Oct 2026	£1,500,000
Warm Homes Suffolk Energy Efficiency and Renewables Retrofit FrameworkFramework3 lotsBuilding consultancy services	Awarded / complete	29 Oct 2026	£30,000,000
Discharge to Access (D2A) beds contract for Ipswich & East	Awarded / complete	20 Oct 2026	—
Food Waste Receipt and TreatmentRefuse recycling services	Planning	16 Oct 2026	£4,404,480
Iken Footpath 1 Boardwalk Replacement	Awarded / complete	13 Oct 2026	—
Purdis Farm 3 Boardwalk Replacement	Awarded / complete	13 Oct 2026	—
Provision of Winter Forecasting Services	Awarded / complete	13 Oct 2026	—
Suffolk County Music Service County Music Groups Concert Tours 2027Organisation of package tours	Open	12 Oct 2026	£185,000
Nicotine Replacement Therapy and Smoking Cessation Medication Postal Supply within Suffolk2 lotsHealth services	Open	8 Oct 2026	£400,000
Suffolk Alternative Provision Tier One (Outreach) ServiceEducation and training services	Awarded / complete	7 Oct 2026	£1,600,000
National Supervised Toothbrushing Programme Delivery within SuffolkCommunity health services	Awarded / complete	6 Oct 2026	£226,927
Individual Placement Support (Substance Misuse)Health services	Awarded / complete	2 Oct 2026	£1,073,498
All Age Advocacy ServicesDPSHealth and social work services	Open	1 Oct 2026	£5,438,400
Economic Impact Assessment	Awarded / complete	29 Sept 2026	—
Closed Landfill Site Consultancy	Awarded / complete	25 Sept 2026	—

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Contracts Finder adds 375 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. 491 of 1,094 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. 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.