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By buyer · Find a Tender and Contracts Finder · read 28 October 2026

Local government tenders from UK public buyers

Local government tenders open now: 834. In the 12 months to 28 October 2026, UK public buyers published 41,496 matching notices. The newest recorded award went to Various on 23 Feb 2029.

Checked against primary sources3 sources linked below

Local government tenders published each month, October 2025 to October 2026: bar chart of 41,496 UK notices
Notices per month, UK time. All matched by text.

Which local government tenders are open now?

834 notices with a deadline still ahead on 28 October 2026, closing soonest first, all matched by text.

Local government tenders matched by text

Each title, buyer or stated region matches this hub’s rule. That is a word match, not a judgment of what is bought.

No stated deadline: 101 tender notices from the last 60 days

These are tender-stage notices whose source gives no deadline and no ended status. They are not counted as open above: check the official record before treating one as live.

Showing the newest 10.

Showing 30 of 834. Search every open notice for “Local government”.

Which buyers publish the most Local government notices?

Surrey County Council, with 1,512 notices of 41,496 in the 12 months to 28 October 2026.

  1. Surrey County Council1,512
  2. Suffolk County Council Passenger Transport1,083
  3. Leicester City Council868
  4. East Sussex County Council727
  5. Bristol City Council671
  6. Leicestershire County Council611
  7. West Sussex County Council607
  8. West Northamptonshire Council593

Count of notices by the buyer name as published, 41,496 notices in the window, read 28 October 2026.

How many Local government notices are published each month?

About 3,383 a month over the last eleven full months; the busiest month was July 2026, with 4,364.

6364 of the 17564 Local government notices that stated a GBP value in the last 12 months fell in this band (36%). 5 of the open notices listed above are in it.

Counts come from this page’s data. A stated estimate is not the contract value, and frameworks are excluded.

StageNotices
Award19,946
Contract13,173
Tender4,107
Planning3,759
Tender cancellation440
Pre-procurement51
Pipeline12
implementation8
Stage as the source records it, of 41,496 notices in the 12 months to 28 October 2026.
Stated valueNotices
Under £25,0001,843
£25,000 to £100,0006,364
£100,000 to £500,0005,388
£500,000 to £2 million1,968
£2 million or more2,001
Only the 17,564 notices that state a GBP value, excluding frameworks, placeholders of £1,000 or less and ceilings of £100 million or more. An estimate in a notice is not a contract value.

Who has won Local government contracts recently?

24x7 Ltd won 3 of the award notices read for this hub, the most of any supplier.

The newest award

On 23 Feb 2029, Warwickshire County Council recorded an award to Various for “WCC - DPS - Waste Miscellaneous Streams Q2 2026”, at a recorded value of £12,000.

Read the award notice. Published award value

SupplierAward notices won
24x7 Ltd3
All Day Cars3
Royal Taxis Peterborough3
Trojan Consultants Ltd t/a Plianz3
Various3
Acorn Contract and Hire Ltd2
CGI IT UK LIMITED2
Entec Si Ltd2
Distinct notices per supplier, from the newest 200 of 33,119 award and contract notices in the window. Confirmed award records only. A count of awards, never a sum of spend.

What counts as local government tenders here?

Notices from local government: county, district, unitary, metropolitan and London borough councils, combined authorities and other local authorities. Parish and town councils also have their own hub.

Classified

This hub is chosen by buyer or place, which the catalogue does not describe, so it uses no classification.

Matched by text

The buyer's name contains one of: council, borough, county council, district council, metropolitan, combined authority, unitary authority, local authority. A word match is not a judgment of what is bought, so these are labelled as matches.

  1. Open the official notice

    Every notice above links to its page here and to its record on Find a Tender or Contracts Finder. The documents there are the tender; this page is not.
  2. Check the dates

    Note the deadline and any clarification or expression-of-interest date. Forecast and planning notices have no bid deadline yet.
  3. Check the route to market

    A framework or dynamic purchasing system call-off needs a place on that agreement first; an open procedure does not.
  4. Look at who won before

    The winners above show who has delivered this kind of contract recently and for which buyers.

Read the buyer’s own notice before you spend a day on any of these.

Track local government tenders in one workspace

  1. 834 notices open now

    Listed above, closing soonest first, each linked to its page and the official record.
  2. Surrey County Council published 1,512 notices

    The most of any buyer here, out of 41,496 in the last 12 months.
  3. 24x7 Ltd won 3 awards

    The most of any supplier in the 200 award and contract notices read for this hub.
  4. About 3,383 notices a month

    Published on average over the last 11 full months, from 41,496 in the 12-month window.

Questions about this page

Short answers, with the figures read for this page.

How many local government tenders are open now?
834 notices with a stated deadline still ahead on 28 October 2026, all matched by text. Another 101 tender notices from the last 60 days state no deadline and are listed separately. The list is read again every day.
Where are these notices published?
On Find a Tender and Contracts Finder, the UK government's two public notice services. Each notice on this site links to its official record there; read that record and its documents before deciding to bid.
How does a notice get into this hub?
By its title, buyer or stated region matching the hub's rule. Classified notices will be added here when they are published to public pages; a text match is never presented as a classification.
Are EU, Scottish and Welsh portals included?
No. Only Find a Tender and Contracts Finder are read. EU (TED) notices are never added to these UK counts, and notices that appear only on Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales or eTendersNI are not here.

Hubs that share buyers or suppliers with this one, and the full tender index.

Sources and method

Read at
28 October 2026, regenerated daily
Window
28 October 2025 to 28 October 2026, by publication date
Classification
Not used for this hub
  • A text match means the notice's title, buyer or stated region fits this hub's rule. It is not a judgment of what is bought.
  • Open means a stated deadline still in the future. Tender notices with no stated deadline are listed separately, and only when published in the last 60 days; planning and forecast notices are not counted as open.
  • Winners are read from the newest 200 of 33119 award and contract notices in the window.
  • UK notices from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder only. EU (TED) notices are not counted.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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