Active travel schemes contracts
UK public sector · 116 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026
Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count
- Contracts awarded
- 116
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £146k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £71.3m
- 109 of 114 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 48
- Suppliers
- 70
36 active travel schemes contracts ending in the next 12 months
See which ones
BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned
What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most active travel schemes contracts took 27% of them (31 of 116).
- The median contract, £146k, is close to the median across construction & trades contracts (£139k).
- Yorkshire and The Humber had the most contracts: 32, or 28% of the total.
Who buys active travel schemes
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Nottingham City Council12 contracts£1.2m
- 2Wakefield Council12 contracts£851k
- 3Hull City Council9 contracts£1.3m
- 4Hampshire County Council6 contracts£382k
- 5Isle of Wight Council5 contracts£1.1m
- 6Cyngor Gwynedd5 contracts£961k
- 7North Lincolnshire Council5 contracts£547k
- 8Kirklees Council4 contracts£8.0m
- 9Hartlepool Borough Council4 contracts£3.3m
- 10Leicestershire County Council3 contracts£20.1m
Top active travel schemes contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Trust Utility Management Ltd11 contracts£1.1m
- 2EC Surfacing Ltd6 contracts£739k
- 3Rocon Contractors6 contracts£382k
- 4C R Reynolds Limited4 contracts£14.7m
- 5BCE Northern Limited4 contracts£3.3m
- 6RS Civil Engineering Ltd4 contracts£293k
- 7DSD Construction3 contracts£1.0m
- 8M.C.M. CONSTRUCTION LIMITED3 contracts£551k
- 9PBS Construction (North East) Ltd3 contracts£460k
- 10KS Civils & Groundworks Ltd3 contracts£260k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Isle of Wight Council to M.C.M. CONSTRUCTION LIMITED · Awarded 30 September 2026
Hull City Council to RJR (Eng) Ltd · Awarded 29 September 2026
Cyngor Gwynedd to Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd · Awarded 25 September 2026
Wakefield Council to Derek Lewis Ltd · Awarded 23 September 2026
Hull City Council to Sawden & Sons Ltd · Awarded 22 September 2026
South Downs National Park Authority to Morton and Pattison Ltd · Awarded 22 September 2026
Ashfield District Council - Towns Fund - Walking & Cycling (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£166k
Ashfield District Council to vaughandale construction ltd · Awarded 22 September 2026
Hartlepool Borough Council to BCE Northern Limited · Awarded 14 September 2026
Wakefield Council to RS Civil Engineering Ltd · Awarded 8 September 2026
Cambridgeshire County Council to TAYLOR WOODROW CONSTRUCTION SOUTHERN LIMITED · Awarded 7 September 2026
Largest
Leicestershire County Council to Allroads Asphalt Solutions LTD · Awarded 28 May 2026
Leicestershire County Council to Jordan Road Surfacing · Awarded 18 August 2026
Cambridgeshire County Council to Octavius Infrastructure · Awarded 10 February 2026
Essex County Council to Octavius Infrastructure · Awarded 21 April 2026
Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council to C R Reynolds Limited · Awarded 28 October 2025
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 102 · Wales 11 · Scotland 3
What is included
Construction and improvement of public footways, cycle routes, shared-use paths, footpaths and trails, including base construction and surfacing.
- Cycleway and active travel route construction
- Shared-use paths
- Public footpath construction and upgrades in tarmac or stone
- National park and long-distance path upgrades
- Bike trails
What is not included
- Paths inside school, hospital, housing or university sites (con.civils.estate-hard-surfacing)
- Crossings and traffic calming (con.civils.highway-improvements)
- Footway micro-surfacing (con.civils.surface-treatments)
- Carriageway works (con.civils.carriageway-resurfacing)