Public bodies publish 116 construction works contracts worth £207.8m in week to 4 October 2026

Public-sector buyers published 116 awarded construction works contracts with a total stated value of £207.8 million on Find a Tender between 28 September and 4 October 2026, according to Cabinet Office open contracting data.

The contracts appeared in 113 notices from 83 buyers. Of the 116 contracts, 115 stated a value, and together those were worth £207,754,703.

The median stated contract value was £118,412, meaning half of the valued contracts were worth more and half less. The data shows 19 of the valued contracts were worth £1 million or more.

The same count for the week before, 21 to 27 September 2026, found 128 contracts with a total stated value of £614.3 million.

The largest contracts

The largest contract by stated value was awarded by Falkirk Council to DCL Joinery and Contractors at £35,351,096 excluding VAT. It is titled "Central (Main Settlements - Bainsford, Camelon, Falkirk, Hallglen, Langlees and Westquarter)".

The same notice, published on 2 October 2026 and described as "Window & Door Replacements, Phase 2, Falkirk Council Area", included two further contracts, both awarded to Sidey Solutions Limited. The East contract, covering Bo'ness, Grangemouth, Maddiston and Redding, had a stated value of £29,789,554, and the West contract, covering Denny, Dunipace and Larbert, was stated at £16,370,297. All three were signed on 16 June 2026.

Southampton City Council awarded its Education Asset Repair and Maintenance Programme to Axis CLC Contractors Ltd at a stated value of £30,000,000 excluding VAT. That contract was signed on 7 July 2026.

East Devon District Council awarded the Sidmouth and East Beach Coastal Defence Scheme, Engineering Construction Works to Boskalis Westminster limited at £18,911,242 excluding VAT. The buyer classified it as marine construction works, and the contract was signed on 14 September 2026. The notice's description refers to a procurement using the New Engineering Contract NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract Option C with Option X22 Early Contractor Involvement.

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

Regions, buyers and suppliers

By stated value, Scotland had the most, with five contracts carrying £95.2 million of stated value. By number of contracts, the North West had the most, with 17.

NHS Property Services Limited was the buyer with the most contracts, at six. Stratfield Mortimer Parish Council had four, while Falkirk Council, London Borough of Haringey and National Highways Limited each had three.

Five suppliers were named on more than one contract. RC Saunders Limited, H. Cumberbirch & Son Limited and Eastern Counties Scaffolding Services were each named on three, and Sidey Solutions Limited and UK Power Networks on two each.

Largest construction works contracts published 28 September to 4 October 2026

Rank	Contract	Buyer	Supplier	Stated value	Place of work
1	Central (Main Settlements - Bainsford, Camelon, Falkirk, Hallglen, Langlees and Westquarter)	Falkirk Council	DCL Joinery and Contractors	£35,351,096	Scotland
2	Education Asset Repair and Maintenance Programme	Southampton City Council	Axis CLC Contractors Ltd	£30,000,000	South East
3	East (Main Settlements - Bo'ness, Grangemouth, Maddiston and Redding)	Falkirk Council	Sidey Solutions Limited	£29,789,554	Scotland
4	Sidmouth and East Beach Coastal Defence Scheme, Engineering Construction Works	East Devon District Council	Boskalis Westminster limited	£18,911,242	South West
5	West (Main Settlements - Denny, Dunipace and Larbert)	Falkirk Council	Sidey Solutions Limited	£16,370,297	Scotland
6	Affordable Housing Boreland Kirkcaldy	Fife Council	Allanwater Homes	£13,500,000	Scotland
7	The Greenways, Goole - Phase 2	Thirteen Housing Group Limited	Beal Developments Limited	£13,481,000	Yorkshire and the Humber
8	Inns Court Main Contractor	Places for People	E.W Beard	£6,036,472	UK-wide or not stated
9	Principal Contractor - Fire Remediation works (Aura, Vivienne & 59 Oldridge Road)	Southern Housing	Architectural Decorators Limited	£5,337,323	More than one region
10	Hayle Highlanes - JCT D&B CHL331	Coastline Design and Build Limited	EBC Partnerships Limited	£4,732,806	South West

How the figures were compiled

The figures cover every notice published on Find a Tender, the UK government's procurement notice service, between 28 September and 4 October 2026, read from its open contracting data feed published by the Cabinet Office 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, with values as stated in each notice and not adjusted; nine of the 115 valued contracts gave a figure including VAT. One contract gave no usable value and is counted in the number of contracts but not in the total, and six further notices for framework agreements or multi-supplier arrangements are left out of every figure because their values are ceilings on possible future spending. Private-sector contracts, and public contracts not yet published on Find a Tender, are not included.