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

Notices, last 12 months38+217% vs prior 12 months (12)

Typical bids per lot325% single-bid · median of 8 lots

Based on 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

Top-3 supplier share21%of 72 awarded procedures · 59 suppliers

72 awarded tenders, 59 different suppliers.

Contracts ending ≤18 months1511 within 6 months

Published award value, 24m£149mnet · on 27 of 27 published values · top 5 = 94%

Open notices

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

Notice	Deadline	Days left	Published value
Town Hall Wayfinding	16 Nov 2026	31h	£50,000
Town Hall Furniture	19 Nov 2026	4d	£40,000
Woodside Changing Rooms Building Refurbishment	20 Nov 2026	5d	£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

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

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

Based on 8 lots from this buyer’s competitions, last 24 months.

3robust · n=825% of lots drew a single bid

Deadline → award

Based on 6 decided tenders across all categories, last 24 months.

43 daysrobust · n=6

Notice amendments

Based on 50 notices across all categories, last 24 months.

08 of 50 notices amended

Award vs estimate

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

Supplier	Procedures	Share	Last 24m	Award records	Last activity
Lister Wilder Ltd	6	8.3%	1	6	6 Jul 2022
Smidsy Ltd T/A Beryl	5	6.9%	4	5	14 Nov 2025
Ford Motor Company Ltd	4	5.6%	0	4	6 Jul 2022
Farol Limited	4	5.6%	0	4	23 Mar 2022
HERTS HERITAGE BUILDING AND ROOFING LIMITED	2	2.8%	2	2	2 Mar 2026
KJP UK LIMITED t/a ONE CONSULTING GROUP	2	2.8%	2	2	—
Algorythm Ltd	2	2.8%	1	2	2 Feb 2026
One YMCA	1	1.4%	1	4	3 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)

£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)

£250k middle valuerobust · n=27Middle half £55k–£960k.

Largest published awards i	Supplier	Awarded	Term	Published value
Sports and Leisure Management Limited Outsourced Services	Sports & Leisure Management Ltd	—	—	£63,000,000 †
VEAT Notice Waste, Recycling, Street Cleansing and Parks and Open Spaces Services	VEOLIA ES (UK) LIMITED	—	6 yrs	£59,400,000 ≈ £9.9m/yr
0	Morgan Sindall Construction and Infrastructure Ltd	—	1 yrs	£11,292,336 ≈ £11m/yr
Hard Facilities Management Services	Ascot Services Uk Limited	30 Sept 2026	3 yrs · up to 5 yrs	£3,500,000 ≈ £1.2m/yr
Civil Parking Enforcement Services Community & Environmental Services	NSL 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

Contract	Holder	Ends	Published value
UPDATED FM Procurement Consultancy Support	KJP UK LIMITED t/a ONE CONSULTING GROUP	30 Nov 2026	£50,000
FM Procurement Consultancy Support	KJP UK LIMITED t/a ONE CONSULTING GROUP	30 Nov 2026	£71,402
Watford Town Centre Ice Rink 2026	ICE PARK LIMITED	15 Jan 2027	£157,247
Business Intelligence Solution	QlickiT Ltd	21 Jan 2027	£350,000
Herts & Beds Air Quality Data Management	Ricardo AEA Ltd	25 Jan 2027	£42,000
Customer Management System	Firmstep Ltd	4 Feb 2027	£405,000
Scriptwriter / Copy Editor for the Museum of Watford	Cooper Arts & Heritage Consulting	28 Feb 2027	£25,000
Tumbling Bay Riverwell Wier & South Branch Sluice Detailed Design	Edenvale Young Associates Ltd	28 Feb 2027	£49,990
Riverwell Square Public Art	BEN TWISTON-DAVIES LIMITED	12 Mar 2027	£50,000
Retrofit Home (Domestic) Energy Efficiency Works - Managing Agents	E.ON Energy Solutions, E.ON Energy Solutions, National Energy Foundation +4	1 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

Procedure	Status	Published	Published value
Sports and Leisure Management Limited Outsourced ServicesPhysical well-being services	Awarded / complete	8 Jul 2025	—
Lot B - Southern Sites Fish Passage: Detailed Design and PermittingRiver regulation and flood control works	Open	1 Jul 2025	£43,000
Lot A – Southern Sites River Improvements: Detailed Design & PermittingRiver regulation and flood control works	Open	1 Jul 2025	£20,000
Consultancy Advice/Services	Awarded / complete	3 Jun 2025	—
Innovation HubAccommodation and office services	Planning	29 Apr 2025	£2,000,000
Green Belt AssessmentEnvironmental planning	Awarded / complete	28 Apr 2025	£60,000
Solar PV - Three Rivers House - Design, Supply and InstallationSolar installation	Open	28 Apr 2025	£60,000

Search all 68 procedures for this authority →

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.