Public bodies publish 116 construction works contracts worth £154.1m in week to 8 November

Public-sector buyers published 116 construction works contracts as awarded on Find a Tender between 2 and 8 November 2026, with a combined stated value of £154.1 million, according to Cabinet Office open contracting data.

The contracts appeared in 114 notices from 88 buyers. All 116 stated a value, and the total came to £154,053,205.

The median stated contract value was £104,461, meaning half of the contracts were worth more and half less. Fifteen were worth £1 million or more.

The week before, 26 October to 1 November 2026, the same count found 160 contracts with a total stated value of £131.5 million.

The largest contracts

The largest contract by stated value was "Lakes Estate Regeneration", awarded by Milton Keynes City Council to John Graham Construction Ltd Trading as GRAHAM at £72.4 million excluding VAT.

The notice was published on 4 November 2026 and gives the contract signing date as 19 December 2023. It describes a further competition under the Pagabo National Framework for Major Works 2020, which covered a pre-construction stage and included the award for works once that stage had concluded.

Ulster University awarded "Derry~Londonderry Teaching and Student Centre Works" to Glasgiven Contracts Ltd at a stated value of £30,073,271 including VAT. The contract was signed on 19 October 2026. According to the notice, the project involves building a new Teaching and Student Centre block at the university's Derry-Londonderry campus, next to the Library at Northland Road.

East Devon District Council awarded its "Kitchen, Bathroom & Adaptations Contract" to Bell Group Limited at £9,050,000 excluding VAT. The notice describes a measured term contract for kitchen and bathroom refurbishment and internal adaptation works across the council's housing stock, procured through a mini-competition under the South West Procurement Alliance Whole House Refurbishment Dynamic Purchasing System.

Ashfield District Council awarded "Domestic Property Health & Safety Check / Service" to Denton Nickels (UK) Limited at £4,161,505 excluding VAT. The notice says the work covers safety checks, including gas checks and servicing, in homes the council owns.

UK Atomic Energy Authority awarded a £3,256,918 contract, excluding VAT, to the supplier named in the notice as Bilfinger UK Limiited for the completion of the Integrated Control & Safety System for the H3AT Tritium Facility at Culham.

The table below lists the 10 largest contracts of the week.

Buyers, suppliers and regions

By stated value, South East had the most, with 19 contracts and £79.2 million of stated value.

The buyers with the most contracts were NHS Property Services Limited with six, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust with five, and Hampshire County Council and West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority with four each. City & County of Swansea had three.

Two suppliers were named on more than one contract: BCE Northern Limited and SES Mechanical Services Limited, each with two.

A further 10 notices were for framework agreements or multi-supplier arrangements. Their values are ceilings on possible future spending, not contracts for work, so they are left out of every figure above.

Largest construction works contracts published 2 to 8 November 2026

Rank	Contract	Buyer	Supplier	Stated value	Place of work
1	Lakes Estate Regeneration	Milton Keynes City Council	John Graham Construction Ltd Trading as GRAHAM	£72,400,000	South East
2	Derry~Londonderry Teaching and Student Centre Works	Ulster University	Glasgiven Contracts Ltd	£30,073,271	Northern Ireland
3	Kitchen, Bathroom & Adaptations Contract	East Devon District Council	Bell Group Limited	£9,050,000	South West
4	Domestic Property Health & Safety Check / Service	Ashfield District Council	Denton Nickels (UK) Limited	£4,161,505	East Midlands
5	For the completion of the Integrated Control & Safety System (ICSS) for the H3AT Tritium Facility at Culham	UK Atomic Energy Authority	Bilfinger UK Limiited	£3,256,918	South East
6	Potteric Carr SFC and 33kv Substation Service Agreement	Network Rail Infrastructure Limited	Hitachi Energy UK Limited	£3,200,000	London
7	Headland Cycleway	Hartlepool Borough Council	BCE Northern Limited	£3,000,000	North East
8	Bernard Ward (Landermere Centre) Refurbishment	Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust	H&R Stroods Contracts Limited	£2,515,954	East of England
9	Extra Care Area Works – Beechlydene Ward & Ashdown Unit	Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS trust	VINCI Facilities	£2,147,779	South West
10	Small Scale Structural Works 2026 - 2030	Newcastle City Council	BCE Northern Limited	£2,000,000	North East

How the figures were compiled

The figures come from every notice published on Find a Tender, the UK government's procurement notice service, between 2 and 8 November 2026, read from its open contracting data feed, which the Cabinet Office publishes under the Open Government Licence v3.0. They count signed contracts that the buyer classified as construction work under division 45 of the Common Procurement Vocabulary, and exclude contracts for supplies and notices of an intention to award. Values are as stated in each notice and are not adjusted: excluding VAT where the notice gives that figure, otherwise including VAT, which applied to 19 of the 116 contracts this week. The figures cover only contracts that public bodies have published on Find a Tender, so private-sector contracts and public contracts not yet published are not included.