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Commercial construction contracts

UK public sector · 260 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
260
Last 12 months
Median contract
£4.7m
Recorded value
Recorded value
£14bn
226 of 249 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
132
Suppliers
125

BidSkim assigns contracts to services from the notice text. How services are assigned

What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most commercial construction contracts took 32% of them (84 of 260).
  • The median contract, £4.7m, is 33.7 times the median across construction & trades contracts (£139k).
  • North East had the most contracts: 71, or 27% of the total.

Who buys commercial construction

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Department for Education77 contracts
  2. 2Essex County Council6 contracts
  3. 3Coventry City Council5 contracts
  4. 4Somerset Council5 contracts
  5. 5The Education Authority4 contracts
  6. 6Warwickshire County Council3 contracts
  7. 7Wealden District Council3 contracts
  8. 8Hampshire County Council3 contracts
  9. 9Leeds City Council - PACS3 contracts
  10. 10Sheffield City Council3 contracts

Top commercial construction contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Tilbury Douglas21 contracts
  2. 2Kier Construction19 contracts
  3. 3Morgan Sindall17 contracts
  4. 4Willmott Dixon15 contracts
  5. 5Bowmer & Kirkland Ltd12 contracts
  6. 6BAM Construction11 contracts
  7. 7Beard Construction6 contracts
  8. 8GRAHAM5 contracts
  9. 9Morgan Sindall Construction and Infrastructure Ltd4 contracts
  10. 10Lindum Group4 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

59Q4 2025*74Q1 202666Q2 202660Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 229 · Scotland 11 · Northern Ireland 10 · Wales 10

North East71London26South East25East of England17West Midlands16North West15South West15Yorkshire and The Humber11East Midlands10Wales10Scotland10Northern Ireland10UK-wide or not stated24

What is included

Main-contractor construction of new schools, hospitals, emergency services, civic, community, commercial and industrial buildings, often design and build, including external works and M&E packages. Pre-construction services agreements let as the first stage of these projects are included.

  • New schools, SEND bases and further education buildings
  • New hospitals and health buildings
  • Police headquarters, fire service training centres and railway offices
  • Community buildings, cafes and new entrance buildings
  • Light industrial units, warehouses and agricultural barns
  • Pre-construction services agreements for new-build projects
  • Main contractor subcontract packages for a new building

What is not included

  • New homes and residential schemes (con.build.housing-new-build)
  • Modular, portable and hired buildings (con.build.modular-buildings)
  • Extensions to existing buildings (con.build.extensions-minor-works)
  • Steel towers, canopies and frames bought on their own (con.build.structural-steel-canopies)
  • Public squares and streetscape schemes (another family: civils, public realm and streetscape works)
  • Standalone architecture, QS or project management (another industry: consulting-accountancy)

Often bought by the same buyers