Compass Contract Services (U.K.) Limited, trading as ESS Government Services: UK Public Sector Contracts Won & Awards

Companies House: Private Limited CompanyBirmingham West MidlandsMain market: Catering services

Companies House02114954 ↗

Procedures with an award5986 award records
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How many tenders this supplier has won.

Tenders with at least one award to it. Award records are shown too, because one framework can carry many call-offs.

Public authorities54named on published awards
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How many different public bodies have awarded to this supplier.

Buyers named on its awards, with duplicate names merged.

Attributable award value£556mnet · on 48 of 86 award records · single-supplier, no ceilings
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How much this supplier has won, by published values.

Sum of award values where it was the only winner, VAT excluded, framework ceilings left out.

Not turnover. Not every award publishes a value.

Last 12 months39awards · 24 in the prior 24 months · last 22 Sept 2026
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Awards to this supplier in the last 12 months.

Award records dated in the last 12 months, against the two years before.

Contracts ending ≤18 months6end date published on 26 of 86 awards
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Delivery regions13most often Greater London
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Where this supplier has delivered.

Delivery regions published on its awarded tenders. A tender with several regions counts in each.

Where the work was, not where the company is based.

Where they win
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What kind of work is bought here.

Notices by procurement category (CPV). A notice with several categories counts in each.

89 lot-level observations (87 awarded lots, 98%, plus 2 envelope awards without lot links; pending awards included) · top CPV classes

5552 Catering services49 observations · 67% · 47 lots + 2 envelope
9091 Cleaning services7 observations · 10% · lots
5550 Canteen and catering services5 observations · 7% · lots
5532 Meal-serving services3 observations · 4% · lots
1586 Coffee, tea and related products2 observations · 3% · lots
Attributable award value
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How much this supplier has won, by published values.

Sum of award values where it was the only winner, VAT excluded, framework ceilings left out.

Not turnover. Not every award publishes a value.

£556mOn 48 of 86 award records; the five largest make 61%; a further 13 published a VAT-inclusive amount only (£20m inc. VAT, kept apart). Largest rows below.
Typical attributable award
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What one of this supplier’s wins is usually worth.

Middle value of the same awards as the total above.

£2.3m middle valuerobust · n=48
Largest published awards
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The biggest published awards.

Awards to a single supplier with a published value, largest first, so you can check the totals against the notice.

A repeated framework total can appear here. Open the notice to check.

AuthorityAwardedTermPublished value
Managed Outsourced Solution for Education CateringHampshire County Council30 Jun 20255 yrs · up to 7 yrs£82,693,390
≈ £17m/yr
Catering and Banqueting Services at the QEII CentreMHCLG (on behalf of the QEII Centre)——£80,000,000 †
School Catering Services for East Sussex County CouncilEast Sussex County Council2 Mar 20265 yrs · up to 7 yrs£72,800,000
≈ £15m/yr
Hull University Teaching Hospitals ~ Retails Food Service TenderHull University Teaching Hospitals——£64,064,346 †
Retail and Event Catering Services at Imperial War Museums (IWM)Imperial War Museum——£37,000,000 †

Where they deliver
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Where this supplier has delivered.

Delivery regions published on its awarded tenders. A tender with several regions counts in each.

Where the work was, not where the company is based.

ITL1 delivery regions on the notice · 56 of 59 awarded procedures publish one · a procedure with several regions counts in each

Greater London17 procedures · 30%
South West England14 procedures · 25%
South East England11 procedures · 20%
Nationwide (UK)10 procedures · 18%
East of England9 procedures · 16%
North West England7 procedures · 13%
Yorkshire and the Humber6 procedures · 11%
West Midlands5 procedures · 9%

Bidding record
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Competitions this supplier is known to have bid in.

Lots on Procurement Act 2023 award notices naming it as a bidder, split into won and lost. The lot is the contest: three lots of a ten-lot notice is three wins and seven losses.

Procurement Act 2023 award notices name every bidder · 16 notices name this supplier, covering 26 lots since 26 Sept 2025 · observed bids, not an estimate

Win rate on contract lots
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How often this supplier wins when it bids.

Won divided by won plus lost, counted per LOT on Procurement Act 2023 notices naming every bidder. Framework places are counted separately.

Real bids, but only where the buyer named the bidders.

43%robust · n=14Won 6, lost 8 of the contract lots with a published award; 3 still undecided. A lot is one contest, so bidding for several lots of one notice counts once for each.
Framework / DPS places
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Frameworks and DPS this supplier got onto.

Lots appointed out of lots applied for. Kept apart from contract wins because almost every compliant bidder gets a place.

8 of 9Lots on 3 notices — a place is won per lot.
Authorities bid for
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How many public bodies this supplier has bid to.

Buyers on notices that name it as a bidder, win or lose.

15Bid for and never won with 5 of them on contract lots.

Source: bids.details[].tenderers on Procurement Act 2023 notices (from 2025). PCR 2015 notices name no bidders, so earlier contests are invisible here. Latest ten notices shown.

Who they sell to
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Which buyers publish the most notices here.

Buyers ranked by the number of notices, duplicate names merged.

Authorities named on this supplier’s published awards · ranked by distinct procedures · award records explode on framework and DPS panels

Authority type · official UK type when published, else name/id class, else not classified · by award records (a single panel can dominate)
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What kinds of public bodies buy here.

Notices by the buyer’s type as published, otherwise by its name.

  • Education 28% (24 awards)
  • Type not classified 24% (21 awards)
  • Other public body 23% (20 awards)
  • Police & fire 14% (12 awards)
  • Central government 7% (6 awards)
  • Local authority 3% (3 awards)
AuthorityProceduresShareAward recordsLast activity
ESPOframework/DPS on 335.1%75 Jun 2025
The Police & Crime Commissioner for Sussex23.4%53 Mar 2026
UK Hydrographic Office23.4%421 Sept 2026
Liverpool Experience Campus Ltd23.4%29 Dec 2025
Ormiston Academies Trust (OAT)framework/DPS on 111.7%719 Dec 2025
Coastal Learning Partnership11.7%426 Mar 2026
Reach South Academy Trust11.7%41 Jul 2026
HORNCHURCH ACADEMY TRUSTframework/DPS on 111.7%421 May 2026

Share = of the 59 procedures with an award naming this supplier. Last activity = award date, or notice publication when no award date was published.

Contracts ending
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Contracts that finish in the next 18 months.

Published contracts with an end date in that window. No end date, not counted.

A likely retender, not a certain one.

Published end dates only · 26 of 86 awards carry one · not a retender forecast

ContractEndsPublished value
Consumables for Soft Services30 Jun 2027£225,000
Consumables for Soft Services30 Jun 2027£225,000
Total Facilities Management Framework 2022 - NHS LPP7 Jul 2027£5,800,000,000
Security and Cleaning Services21 Dec 2027£24,000,000
Soft Services Hospitality28 Feb 2028£150,000
Soft Services Hospitality28 Feb 2028£15,000

Recent awards

Latest 30 of 86 award records naming this supplier

Data coverage & method
  • Source: Find a Tender OCDS award and contract releases. An award record is one award × this supplier; a procedure can carry many (panels, call-offs).
  • Market observations are awarded lots, or one envelope award when the notice publishes no lot links. Region = delivery ITL1 on the notice, not the supplier’s registered address.
  • Authority type: official OCDS UK contracting-authority type when the notice publishes one; otherwise a Tenderline name/id class; otherwise “not classified”. Purchasing hubs with no published type stay unclassified.
  • Published value attributable to this supplier alone: £556m across single-supplier awards, framework / DPS ceilings excluded. Coverage is partial and the figure is not turnover, so it is not shown as a headline.
  • Contract end dates: published on 26 of 86 awards; 6 end within 18 months.
  • Each figure’s own method and sample is behind its ; the long form is on Methodology.
  • Never shown: contact details, reliability or payment scores, affiliations, predicted wins.
Identifiers consolidated into this page (28 historical Find a Tender publication identifiers)

Official notices referenced this supplier under these publication identifiers. Alias URLs are not separate pages.

GB-COH:2114954GB-FTS-114773GB-FTS-119426GB-FTS-125941GB-FTS-132938GB-FTS-138042GB-FTS-138520GB-FTS-146071GB-FTS-149867GB-FTS-157893GB-FTS-158382GB-FTS-169024GB-FTS-169133GB-FTS-23987GB-FTS-27912GB-FTS-30481GB-FTS-36541GB-FTS-39332GB-FTS-39335GB-FTS-42926GB-FTS-49756GB-FTS-52822GB-FTS-59360GB-FTS-60433

+4 further identifiers not listed here.

Canonical page id: GB-COH:02114954