Public construction contracts worth £174.4m awarded in week to 25 October

Public bodies published 144 construction works contracts with a stated value of £174.4m on Find a Tender in the week of 19 to 25 October 2026, according to the Cabinet Office's open contracting data.

The contracts came from 85 public-sector buyers in 134 notices. Of the 144, 137 gave a value; the other seven are counted in the number of contracts but not in the total.

The median stated value was £154,600, meaning half the valued contracts were worth more and half less. Twenty contracts were worth £1m or more.

The week before, 12 to 18 October, the same count found 173 contracts with a total stated value of £153.5m.

The largest contracts

The largest award was the Castleford Strategic Regeneration Partnership, which The Council of the City of Wakefield awarded to Morgan Sindall Consortium LLP, Muse Places Limited at £40m excluding VAT. The notice, published on 25 October, said the contract was signed on 16 October and classified the work as urban development construction work.

According to the notice, the council sought a regeneration partner for Castleford with the capacity and commercial skills to complement its existing regeneration team, working with the council and public-sector partners such as Homes England and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.

Second was Glenderamackin, awarded by National Highways Limited to West Cumbria Rivers consutancy Limited at £18,860,616 including VAT. The notice classified it as environmental improvement works and said the work would help National Highways develop advice and guidance on the use of NBS when tackling poor water quality and flooding risks.

Woking Borough Council awarded Lakeview Estate Refurbishment Works to Mulalley and Company Limited at £14,422,678 excluding VAT. The notice describes phased refurbishment and fire safety improvement works to 14 occupied residential blocks, including external wall insulation, roof and roofline renewals, window and door replacements, and mechanical and electrical upgrades.

Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University awarded The Albert Gubay Business School (Bangor University) - Construction and Refurbishment Works to C. Wynne & Sons Ltd. at £12,483,638 excluding VAT. The university said in the notice that it had received a donation from the Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation to create a business school in the former Friars Junior School on Ffriddoedd Road in Bangor. The contract was signed on 23 September.

The Department for Education awarded Schools Property Flood Resilience: Regional Providers - Lot 5: East Midlands and East of England to Ground Control Limited at £11.4m excluding VAT, for work in more than one region. The department said the procurement would expand property flood resilience installations across the school estate, targeting members of the Risk Protection Arrangement in high-risk flood areas and schools that have suffered repeated flooding.

The 10 largest contracts are listed in the table below.

Regions, buyers and suppliers

By stated value, West Midlands had the most, with 21 contracts worth £45.8m. By number of contracts, Yorkshire and the Humber led with 23.

Herefordshire Council was the buyer with the most contracts, at 11, followed by East Riding of Yorkshire Council with nine, Notting Hill Genesis with six, and the Department for Education and the London Borough of Haringey with five each.

Tarmac Trading Limited was named on eight contracts, more than any other supplier. Apex Lift & Escalator Engineers Limited and Flood Control (NI) each appeared on three, and Ground Control Limited and Holcim UK Limited on two each.

A further 10 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 excluded from all the figures above.

Largest construction works contracts published 19 to 25 October 2026

Rank	Contract	Buyer	Supplier	Stated value	Place of work
1	Castleford Strategic Regeneration Partnership	The Council of the City of Wakefield	Morgan Sindall Consortium LLP, Muse Places Limited	£40,000,000	Yorkshire and the Humber
2	Glenderamackin	National Highways Limited	West Cumbria Rivers consutancy Limited	£18,860,616	West Midlands
3	Lakeview Estate Refurbishment Works	Woking Borough Council	Mulalley and Company Limited	£14,422,678	South East
4	The Albert Gubay Business School (Bangor University) - Construction and Refurbishment Works	Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University	C. Wynne & Sons Ltd.	£12,483,638	Wales
5	Schools Property Flood Resilience: Regional Providers - Lot 5: East Midlands and East of England	Department for Education	Ground Control Limited	£11,400,000	More than one region
6	Energy Efficiency Upgrades Support for Wave 3	Citizen Housing Group Ltd	E.ON UK Green Funding Solutions Ltd	£9,000,000	West Midlands
7	Penwithick - Cargwyn - JCT D&B	Coastline Design and Build Limited	Sureflow Building Services Ltd	£6,531,077	South West
8	Groupwide Ventilation Installation Works - Lot 3 All Property Types	Citizen Housing Group Ltd	Volution Ventilation UK Limited Trading AS Airtech Solutions	£6,000,000	West Midlands
9	CN260791 Ifield School Modular Expansion	Kent County Council	WW Martin Ltd	£4,416,113	South East
10	Asphaltic Concrete and Associated Works	South Tyneside Borough Council	Holcim UK Limited	£4,000,000	North East

How the figures were compiled

The figures come from every notice published on Find a Tender between 19 and 25 October 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, division 45 of the Common Procurement Vocabulary, are counted; notices of intention to award, supplies contracts, frameworks and any single contract of £1bn or more are left out. Values are as stated in each notice, excluding VAT where given and otherwise including VAT, which applied to 20 of the 137 valued contracts this week. Private-sector contracts and public contracts not yet published are not included.