SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL contracts, tenders & suppliers

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL

Top-five suppliers hold 63% of contract value — a concentrated market.

Supplier	Awards	Total value
Turning Point (Services) Ltd	2	£117.1M
PROVIDE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY	1	£47.9M
Provide	1	£45.1M
Provide CIC	1	£45.1M
Swarco UK & Ireland Ltd (Formally Dynniq UK Ltd)	1	£20.0M
Pentaco Construction	1	£11.9M
Cathena HealthCare Limited	1	£8.0M
ATHENA CARE HOMES (UK) LIMITED	1	£7.6M
REALISE FUTURES CIC	2	£5.8M
Emergency One (UK) Ltd	1	£5.8M
Envar Composting Limited	2	£5.2M
Healthwatch Suffolk CIC	2	£3.9M
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust	2	£3.7M
Community Action Suffolk	2	£3.7M
Oracle Corporation Uk Limited	1	£3.6M
CF SUPPORT SERVICES LIMITED	1	£3.5M
Health Partners Group Limited	1	£3.4M
Achieving Aspirations CIC	1	£3.0M
Dell Corporation Limited	1	£3.0M
OVE ARUP & PARTNERS LIMITED	1	£3.0M

Procurement categories

What SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL buys

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.

Education and training services

80

108 awards£27.2M

Transport services (excl. Waste transport)

60

83 awards£8.8M

Health and social work services

85

40 awards£306.0M

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72

31 awards£14.8M

Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

79

20 awards£6.7M

Construction work

45

17 awards£14.8M

Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy

09

14 awards£4.3M

Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

71

13 awards£1.1M

Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products

39

10 awards£0

Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

90

7 awards£9.7M

Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment

35

6 awards£1.2M

Software package and information systems

48

6 awards£2.3M

Repair and maintenance services

50

5 awards£20.4M

Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation

34

4 awards£6.5M

Financial and insurance services

66

4 awards£3.3M

Research and development services and related consultancy services

73

4 awards£111K

Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services

63

3 awards£2.5M

Other community, social and personal services

98

2 awards£3.7M

Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories

18

1 award£72K

Industrial machinery

42

1 award£3K

Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)

44

1 award£1.0M

Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services

55

1 award£350K

Recreational, cultural and sporting services

92

1 award£90K

Recent contracts

Latest SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL contracts awarded

The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.

QIP719 0900 2026-08-05 Felixstowe - Piper's vale primary academy, Ipswich (6-seated vehicle and a PA required) - AWARD

Nice Travel Solutions Limited · 2026-10-22

£140K

Cloud Legal Case Management, Time Recording and associated services

Iken Business Limited · 2026-10-21

£170K

SCC0182VA

MBKB LTD · 2026-10-10

£90K

SCC0175VA

Multiverse Group Limited · 2026-10-10

£130K

Iken Footpath 1 Boardwalk Replacement

Impact Landscaping (East Anglia) LIMITED · 2026-10-07

£40K

QIP168 0900 2026-10-07 - Ipswich - St Christopher's Academy, Ipswich (4-seated vehicle for 4 days a week) - AWARD

Universal Cabs Ltd · 2026-10-06

£10K

National Supervised Toothbrushing Programme Delivery within Suffolk

East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust · 2026-10-05

£225K

Purdis Farm 3 Boardwalk Replacement

C D C BLOWERS LIMITED · 2026-10-04

£29K

SCC0180VA

DYNAMIC TRAINING UK LIMITED · 2026-10-03

£28K

Provision of Winter Forecasting Services

METDESK LIMITED · 2026-09-30

£78K

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Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.

56%

Awards to SMEs

63%

Top-5 supplier share

17%

Framework call-offs

Awards to social enterprises

Around 56% of SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises, and 37 have gone to voluntary, community or social enterprises.

Frequently asked

Common questions about selling to SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL

How much does SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL spend on procurement?

SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL awarded 361 contracts totalling £371.7M between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, working with 276 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £1.2M.

Who are SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL's top suppliers?

The largest suppliers to SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL by total award value are Turning Point (Services) Ltd, PROVIDE COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY, Provide. The top five suppliers together hold 63% of contract value.

What does SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL buy from suppliers?

SUFFOLK COUNTY COUNCIL's procurement is concentrated in education and training services, transport services (excl. waste transport), health and social work services, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.

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How this profile is compiled

Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-11-08

This profile aggregates public-record procurement data published by the UK Government under the Open Government Licence v3.0. ENKII fetches, deduplicates, and aggregates source records; we don't edit the underlying facts.

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