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Watford Borough Council: Contract Register & Procurement Profile

NHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITYONS register: Local-authority-districtNHS ODS: LOCAL AUTHORITY - LEGACYLocal authorityEast of EnglandWatford

Official UK PPONPDGQ-4877-NMGQ

Open now3next deadline 16 Nov 2026
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Notices, last 12 months38+217% vs prior 12 months (12)
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Typical bids per lot325% single-bid · median of 8 lots
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Based on 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Top-3 supplier share21%of 72 awarded procedures · 59 suppliers
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72 awarded tenders, 59 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months1511 within 6 months
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Published award value, 24m£149mnet · on 27 of 27 published values · top 5 = 94%
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Open notices

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

NoticeDeadlineDays leftPublished value
Town Hall Wayfinding16 Nov 202631h£50,000
Town Hall Furniture19 Nov 20264d£40,000
Woodside Changing Rooms Building Refurbishment20 Nov 20265d£320,000

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 work10 procedures · 20% · 1 open
98 Other community, social and personal services10 procedures · 20%
75 Administration, defence and social security7 procedures · 14%
79 Business services: law, marketing, consulting7 procedures · 14%
34 Transport equipment and products4 procedures · 8% · 1 open
48 Software package and information systems4 procedures · 8%
30 Office and computing machinery3 procedures · 6%
71 Architectural, construction, engineering3 procedures · 6%

How they buy
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Last 24 months · 50 notices · commercial tool and route as published on the notice, not a legal-regime claim

Commercial tool
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  • Contract96%(48 notices)
    48 of 50 notices are Contract (96%).
  • Dynamic purchasing system2%(1 notice)
    1 of 50 notices is Dynamic purchasing system (2%).
  • Framework2%(1 notice)
    1 of 50 notices is Framework (2%).
Procedure route
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  • Open44%(22 notices)
    22 of 50 notices are Open (44%).
  • Direct award22%(11 notices)
    11 of 50 notices are Direct award (22%).
  • Limited / restricted22%(11 notices)
    11 of 50 notices are Limited / restricted (22%).
  • Route not published12%(6 notices)
    6 of 50 notices are Route not published (12%).
Typical bids per lot
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Based on 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

3robust · n=825% of lots drew a single bid
Deadline → award
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Based on 6 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

43 daysrobust · n=6
Notice amendments
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Based on 50 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

08 of 50 notices amended
Award vs estimate
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Based on 8 lots with both an estimate and an award, last 24 months.

0% at estimaterobust · n=8

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

SupplierProceduresShareLast 24mAward recordsLast activity
Lister Wilder Ltd68.3%166 Jul 2022
Smidsy Ltd T/A Beryl56.9%4514 Nov 2025
Ford Motor Company Ltd45.6%046 Jul 2022
Farol Limited45.6%0423 Mar 2022
HERTS HERITAGE BUILDING AND ROOFING LIMITED22.8%222 Mar 2026
KJP UK LIMITED t/a ONE CONSULTING GROUP22.8%22—
Algorythm Ltd22.8%122 Feb 2026
One YMCA11.4%143 Mar 2026

The three most frequent suppliers are named on 21% of 72 awarded procedures (each procedure counted once, so a panel shared by several of them is not double-counted); 59 distinct suppliers hold at least one. Descriptive concentration of published awards, not a statement of preference.

Published award value (24m)
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£149mSum of published VAT-exclusive values on 27 of 27 published single-supplier values; the five largest make 94%; a further 1 published a VAT-inclusive amount only, kept apart.
Typical single-supplier award (24m)
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£250k middle valuerobust · n=27Middle half £55k–£960k.
Largest published awards
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SupplierAwardedTermPublished value
Sports and Leisure Management Limited Outsourced ServicesSports & Leisure Management Ltd——£63,000,000 †
VEAT Notice Waste, Recycling, Street Cleansing and Parks and Open Spaces ServicesVEOLIA ES (UK) LIMITED—6 yrs£59,400,000
≈ £9.9m/yr
0Morgan Sindall Construction and Infrastructure Ltd—1 yrs£11,292,336
≈ £11m/yr
Hard Facilities Management ServicesAscot Services Uk Limited30 Sept 20263 yrs · up to 5 yrs£3,500,000
≈ £1.2m/yr
Civil Parking Enforcement Services Community & Environmental ServicesNSL Limited—3 yrs£3,258,000
≈ £1.1m/yr

Contracts ending
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61 of 74 contracts carry an end date, 3 estimated from the duration · not a retender forecast

ContractHolderEndsPublished value
*UPDATED* FM Procurement Consultancy SupportKJP UK LIMITED t/a ONE CONSULTING GROUP30 Nov 2026£50,000
FM Procurement Consultancy SupportKJP UK LIMITED t/a ONE CONSULTING GROUP30 Nov 2026£71,402
Watford Town Centre Ice Rink 2026ICE PARK LIMITED15 Jan 2027£157,247
Business Intelligence SolutionQlickiT Ltd21 Jan 2027£350,000
Herts & Beds Air Quality Data ManagementRicardo AEA Ltd25 Jan 2027£42,000
Customer Management SystemFirmstep Ltd4 Feb 2027£405,000
Scriptwriter / Copy Editor for the Museum of WatfordCooper Arts & Heritage Consulting28 Feb 2027£25,000
Tumbling Bay Riverwell Wier & South Branch Sluice Detailed DesignEdenvale Young Associates Ltd28 Feb 2027£49,990
Riverwell Square Public ArtBEN TWISTON-DAVIES LIMITED12 Mar 2027£50,000
Retrofit Home (Domestic) Energy Efficiency Works - Managing AgentsE.ON Energy Solutions, E.ON Energy Solutions, National Energy Foundation +41 Apr 2027£75,000,000

Soonest 10 of 15 contracts ending within 18 months.

Recent procedures

Latest 50 of 68 procedures where this authority buys, is the authority the work is for, or runs the procurement

ProcedureStatusPublishedPublished value
Tumbling Bay Riverwell Wier & South Branch Sluice Detailed DesignAwarded / complete11 Nov 2026—
Hard Facilities Management ServicesFacilities management servicesAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026£3,500,000
Managed Service Desk & Infrastructure ManagementAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026—
Temporary Accommodation Management and MaintenanceAccommodation management servicesAwarded / complete20 Oct 2026£2,700,000
M365 RenewalAwarded / complete19 Oct 2026—
Watford Town Centre Ice Rink 2026Awarded / complete19 Oct 2026—
Riverwell Square Public ArtAwarded / complete19 Oct 2026—
AVIT Software - Museum of WatfordContent management software development servicesAwarded / complete12 Oct 2026£280,000
Parks and Street Vehicles 2026Awarded / complete28 Sept 2026—
Cherry Tree Allotments ExpansionConstruction workOpen21 Sept 2026£400,000
Personal Safety DevicesSafety equipmentAwarded / complete27 Aug 2026—
Watford Winter Night ShelterAccommodation servicesOpen3 Aug 2026£255,000
Herts & Beds Air Quality Data ManagementAwarded / complete30 Jul 2026—
Scriptwriter / Copy Editor for the Museum of WatfordAdvertising campaign servicesAwarded / complete24 Jul 2026£25,000
Hard FM ServicesFacilities management servicesOpen24 Jul 2026£2,000,000
Cherry Tree Allotments ExpansionConstruction workOpen21 Jul 2026£400,000
Multifunctional Print Devices and Associated Digital Transformation SolutionsOffice and computing machineryAwarded / complete7 Jul 2026—
*UPDATED* FM Procurement Consultancy SupportProcurement consultancy servicesAwarded / complete30 Jun 2026—
FM Procurement Consultancy SupportProcurement consultancy servicesAwarded / complete30 Jun 2026—
Single Homelessness Services Tender3 lotsCivic betterment and community facility support servicesAwarded / complete20 Apr 2026£2,340,000

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Contracts Finder adds 113 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. 61 of 74 published contracts have an end date; 3 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.