Buyer
Essex County Council tenders and procurement
Covering 600+ buyer sites · 5 years of records · Contracts awarded in the 24 months to 15 October 2026 · Updated 15 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 442
- Last 24 months
- Median contract
- £102k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £1.3bn
- 394 of 442 have a published value
- Suppliers
- 469
- Won its contracts
- Tenders open now
- 2
- Closing soonest below
- Ending in 12 months
- 177
- Contracts with a recorded end date
Compiled by BidSkim from Essex County Council’s published notices. Not an official Essex County Council page.
Also appears in official records as “Essex County Counci”, “Place Services at Essex County Council”, “Place Services, Essex County Council”.
Open tenders
Closing soonest. The official notice has the documents and the deadline.
- C002PA - Waste Service Mobile Plant (official notice, opens in a new tab)Closes 27 October 2026£4.4m
- Essex Carers Core Offer of Support (official notice, opens in a new tab)Closes 10 November 2026£12.5m
What Essex County Council buys
By service, contracts awarded in the 24 months to 15 October 2026. BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
- 1Bus franchising46 contracts£745k
- 2Commercial construction11 contracts£66.3m
- 3Social marketing7 contracts£992k
- 4E-procurement software6 contracts£787k
- 5Skills bootcamps6 contracts£2.3m
- 6Commercial advisory services5 contracts£364k
- 7Falls prevention5 contracts£10.3m
- 8Healthcare consultancy5 contracts£2.0m
- 9Change management4 contracts£1.2m
- 10Rain gardens and SuDS planting4 contracts£1.2m
Who wins Essex County Council’s contracts
By contracts won, the 24 months to 15 October 2026.
- 1Bloom Procurement Services27 contracts£4.2m
- 2Stephensons of Essex Ltd18 contracts£231k
- 3CENTRAL CONNECT TRANSPORT LIMITED14 contracts£540k
- 4First Bus13 contracts£682k
- 5Re-Gen (UK) Construction6 contracts£1.6m
- 6Potter Raper5 contracts£491k
- 7The Active Wellbeing Society5 contracts—
- 8Gartner UK Limited4 contracts£743k
- 9Phoenix Software4 contracts£554k
- 10Achieve, Thrive, Flourish4 contracts—
Contracts awarded by quarter
Frameworks it buys through
149 of 442 contracts were call-offs from a framework or dynamic purchasing system.
- Transport Technology1 contract
- 860_26 Refuse and Recycling Products · ESPO1 contract
- RM6374 Legal Panel for Public Sector · Crown Commercial Service1 contract