Public bodies published 160 construction contracts worth £131.5m in week to 1 November

Public-sector buyers published 160 construction works contracts with a combined stated value of £131.5 million on Find a Tender between 26 October and 1 November 2026, according to the Cabinet Office's open contracting data.

The contracts came from 101 buyers in 158 notices. Of the 160 contracts, 158 stated a value, and together those were worth £131,453,404. The other two gave no usable value and count towards the number of contracts but not the total.

The week before, 19 to 25 October 2026, the same count found 144 contracts with a total stated value of £174.4 million.

The median stated value was £100,000, meaning half the valued contracts were worth more than that and half less. 22 of the valued contracts were worth £1 million or more.

The largest contracts

The largest contract by stated value was "Development Project at Benabo Court", which Anchor Hanover Group awarded to Bugler Developments Limited at £27,393,848 excluding VAT. The notice, published 26 October, said the contract was signed on 26 September 2026 and covers the demolition of a block of 31 flats and the design and construction of a six-storey block of 73 apartments, with communal areas, landscaping, green roofs and plant, at Benabo Court in Hackney, London.

Second was Trafford Council's "Partington Leisure Centre Refurbishment", awarded to Speller Metcalfe Malvern Limited at £14,135,000 excluding VAT. The notice said the contract was signed on 27 July 2026 and covers the refurbishment, remodelling and extension of the leisure centre, delivered through a pre-construction services agreement followed by a design and build main contract.

Plymouth Community Homes Limited awarded "Carkeek Close Contractor" to Gilbert and Goode Limited at £11,340,000 including VAT, under a contract signed on 22 July 2026 and classified by the buyer as construction work for multi-dwelling buildings and individual houses.

Homes in Somerset Limited awarded "Refrofit and decarbonisation works" to Bell Group at £10,000,000 excluding VAT. The notice, published 27 October, described the work as retrofit home improvement works and said the contract was signed on 1 October 2026. Bell Group also appears on the week's ninth-largest contract, a £4,000,000 award from the same buyer for retrofit improvement works to void properties.

North Ayrshire Council awarded "Flexible Advanced Industrial Unit (Design and Build) – Phase 2 of i3 Business Park" to Muir Construction Ltd at £5,235,942 excluding VAT. The notice said the unit forms part of Phase 2 of investment by the Ayrshire Growth Deal and local regeneration fund in the business park. The contract was signed on 29 September 2026.

The 10 largest contracts of the week are in the table below.

Regions, buyers and suppliers

London had the most stated value, with 20 contracts worth £47.1 million. By number of contracts, South West had the most, with 26.

Kent County Council published the most contracts, with eight, followed by East Riding of Yorkshire Council with seven. Chesterfield Borough Council and NHS Property Services Limited each had five, and Homes in Somerset Limited four.

Five suppliers were named on more than one contract: HAGS-SMP Limited on three, and Bell Group, Bovis Construction (Europe) Limited, Buston & Maughan Limited and GKR Maintenance & Building Co Ltd on two each.

A further four notices were for framework agreements or multi-supplier arrangements. Their values are ceilings on possible future spending rather than contracts for work, so they are left out of all the figures above.

Largest construction works contracts published 26 October to 1 November 2026

Rank	Contract	Buyer	Supplier	Stated value	Place of work
1	Development Project at Benabo Court	Anchor Hanover Group	Bugler Developments Limited	£27,393,848	London
2	Partington Leisure Centre Refurbishment	Trafford Council	Speller Metcalfe Malvern Limited	£14,135,000	North West
3	Carkeek Close Contractor	Plymouth Community Homes Limited	Gilbert and Goode Limited	£11,340,000	More than one region
4	Refrofit and decarbonisation works	Homes in Somerset Limited	Bell Group	£10,000,000	South West
5	Flexible Advanced Industrial Unit (Design and Build) – Phase 2 of i3 Business Park	North Ayrshire Council	Muir Construction Ltd	£5,235,942	Scotland
6	Refurbishment of Units 1-8 and external yard replacement at Admiral Hyson Industrial Estate	Glasgow City Council (as administering authority for the Strathclyde Pension Fund)	7Formation	£5,212,274	London
7	Principal Contractor for Fire Improvement Works	Hywel Dda University Local Health Board	T Richard Jones (Betws) Ltd	£5,143,279	Wales
8	Provision of a Design and Build JCT 2024 contractor for the development of Nye Bevan Estate garages	London Borough of Hackney	Alexander James Contracts Limited	£4,612,628	London
9	Retrofit improvement works to void properties	Homes in Somerset Limited	Bell Group	£4,000,000	South West
10	SHDF Decarbonisation Works	London Borough of Harrow	Sustainable Building Services (UK) Limited	£3,981,828	London

How the figures were compiled

The figures come from every notice published on Find a Tender, the UK government's procurement notice service, between 26 October and 1 November 2026, read from its open contracting data feed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Only signed contracts that the buyer classified as construction work are counted; notices of an intention to award, supplies contracts, frameworks and awards naming four or more suppliers are excluded. Values are as stated in each notice, excluding VAT where given and otherwise including VAT, which applied to 18 of the 158 valued contracts. The figures cover only contracts public bodies have published; private-sector contracts and public contracts not yet published are not included.