Tunbridge Wells Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITYONS register: Local-authority-districtSocial housing register: Local authorityNHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACYLocal authoritySouth East EnglandTunbridge Wells

Official UK PPONPLDX-6964-RZQX

Open now1deadline not published

Notices, last 12 months18+20% vs prior 12 months (15)

Typical bids per lot230% single-bid · median of 20 lots

Based on 20 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Top-3 supplier share7%of 43 awarded procedures · 68 suppliers

43 awarded tenders, 68 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months117 within 6 months · 1 estimated

Published award value, 24m£6.4mnet · on 15 of 15 published values · top 5 = 94%

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 work11 procedures · 33% · 1 open

71 Architectural, construction, engineering10 procedures · 30%

90 Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental6 procedures · 18%

79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting4 procedures · 12%

48 Software package and information systems3 procedures · 9%

50 Repair and maintenance services3 procedures · 9%

43 Mining, quarrying and construction machinery1 procedure · 3% · 1 open

09 Petroleum, coal, oil and gas1 procedure · 3%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 33 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool

Contract97%(32 notices)
32 of 33 notices are Contract (97%).
Framework3%(1 notice)
1 of 33 notices is Framework (3%).

Procedure route

Open79%(26 notices)
26 of 33 notices are Open (79%).
Limited / restricted15%(5 notices)
5 of 33 notices are Limited / restricted (15%).
Direct award6%(2 notices)
2 of 33 notices are Direct award (6%).

Typical bids per lot

Based on 20 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

2robust · n=2030% of lots drew a single bid

Deadline → award

Based on 16 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

40 daysrobust · n=16

Notice amendments

Based on 33 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

118 of 33 notices amended

Award vs estimate

Based on 9 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

6.7% above estimaterobust · n=9

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
Ove Arup & Partners Ltdframework/DPS on 1	2	4.7%	2	4	24 Sept 2026
Iceni Projects Ltdframework/DPS on 1	2	4.7%	2	3	24 Sept 2026
Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners Limitedframework/DPS on 1	2	4.7%	2	2	24 Sept 2026
Enigma CCTV Ltd	2	4.7%	1	2	27 Feb 2026
Ricardo AEA Ltd	2	4.7%	1	2	5 Feb 2026
Little Wolf Entertainment Ltd	2	4.7%	0	2	5 Nov 2024
Jeremy Benn Associates Ltdframework/DPS on 1	1	2.3%	1	3	24 Sept 2026
LUCframework/DPS on 1	1	2.3%	1	3	24 Sept 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 7% of 43 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 68 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)

£6.4mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 15 of 15 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 94%; a further 9 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.

Typical single-supplier award (24m)

£44k middle valuerobust · n=15Middle half £34k–£142k.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
Grounds Maintenance	Tivoli Group Ltd	—	3 yrs	£4,682,400 ≈ £1.6m/yr
Building Maintenance	J. Cheesmur & Sons (Lewes) Ltd	2 Nov 2026	5 yrs · up to 10 yrs	£600,269 ≈ £120k/yr
Electrical	G M Monk Limited	2 Nov 2026	5 yrs · up to 10 yrs	£484,815 ≈ £97k/yr
Fire & Security	G M Monk Limited	2 Nov 2026	5 yrs · up to 10 yrs	£164,960 ≈ £33k/yr
Asbestos	Bradley Environmental Consultants Limited	2 Nov 2026	1.9 yrs · up to 6.9 yrs	£119,911 ≈ £63k/yr

Contracts ending
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37 of 42 contracts carry an end date, 4 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
TWBC - Benhall Mill Road Parks Depot	AMMCASS CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING GROUP LIMITED, AMMCASS CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING GROUP LIMITED	31 Dec 2026	£638,000
TWBC - Green Belt Study	LAND USE CONSULTANTS LIMITED, LAND USE CONSULTANTS LIMITED	31 Dec 2026	£82,577
TWBC - Stock Condition Surveys	BLB Chartered Surveyors, BLB Chartered Surveyors	24 Feb 2027	£0
TWBC & MBC Stationery and Office Supplies	Banner Group Limited	28 Feb 2027	£40,000
TWBC & MBC Stationery and Office Supplies	Banner Group Limited	28 Feb 2027	£300,000
TWBC & MBC Stationery and Office Supplies	Bates Office Services	28 Feb 2027	£30,000
Cleaning and Hygiene Maintenance	Calibre Cleaning Ltd	30 Apr 2027	Not published
Streetlighting Scouting, Inspection and Maintenance	PSR Lighting & Signs Ltd	31 Jul 2027	Not published
Streetlighting Scouting, Inspection and Maintenance	PSR Lighting & Signs Ltd	1 Sept 2027	£160,000
Tunbridge Wells - Commercial Waste Services	Countrystyle Group	9 Mar 2028 estimated	£64,678

Soonest 10 of 11 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 56 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
Cleaning and Hygiene MaintenanceCleaning and sanitation services	Awarded / complete	19 Feb 2024	—
Hospital Discharge, Home Straight, Handyperson and Better Care services6 lotsOther community	Awarded / complete	19 Feb 2024	£1,100,000
Tunbridge Wells Ice RinkEvent services	Awarded / complete	24 May 2023	—
VEAT Notice - South West Kent Waste Partnership – Waste Services Contract 2019Refuse and waste related services	Awarded / complete	10 Mar 2023	—
Tunbridge Wells, Maidstone and Swale Borough Council - Nightly Paid Temporary AccommodationReal estate services	Open	24 Jan 2023	—
The Supply The Management Of CCTV Monitoring Staff And Out Of Hours Calls For TWBCPublic security services	Awarded / complete	11 Mar 2022	—
Corporate Banking and Merchant ServicesBanking services	Cancelled	17 Jan 2022	—
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Elections and Canvass Printing TenderBusiness services: law	Awarded / complete	9 Dec 2021	£200,000
Tunbridge Wells General Management Services PanelRecreational	Not published	16 Nov 2021	—
Tunbridge Wells General Management Services Panel3 lotsRecreational	Open	21 Oct 2021	—

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Contracts Finder adds 78 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. 37 of 42 published contracts have an end date; 4 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.