Groundworks contracts
UK public sector · 121 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
- 121
- Last 12 months
- Median contract
- £121k
- Recorded value
- Recorded value
- £81.4m
- 112 of 118 main-service contracts have a published value
- Buyers
- 92
- Suppliers
- 101
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See which ones
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What stands out
- The five suppliers that won the most groundworks contracts took 12% of them (14 of 121).
- The median contract, £121k, is 13% below the median across construction & trades contracts (£139k).
- South West had the most contracts: 16, or 13% of the total.
Who buys groundworks
By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)4 contracts£2.6m
- 2City and County of Swansea4 contracts£273k
- 3Nottingham City Council4 contracts£192k
- 4Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs3 contracts£21.7m
- 5Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust3 contracts£43k
- 6Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission PLC3 contracts—
- 7Sellafield Ltd2 contracts£4.2m
- 8West Northamptonshire Council2 contracts£3.7m
- 9University of Bristol2 contracts£1.9m
- 10Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council2 contracts£1.7m
Top groundworks contractors by contracts won
The 12 months to 6 October 2026.
- 1Trust Utility Management Ltd4 contracts£192k
- 2DH Building Services3 contracts£197k
- 3M.B. Roche & Sons Ltd3 contracts£43k
- 4CHAP Group2 contracts£4.7m
- 5FITZGERALD CONTRACTORS LIMITED2 contracts£2.9m
- 6Oakland Construction Ltd2 contracts£1.9m
- 7Logan Construction2 contracts£773k
- 8Lindum Group2 contracts£755k
- 9White Horse Contractors Limited2 contracts£531k
- 10Forte Engineering Ltd2 contracts£376k
Latest and largest awards
Each links to the official notice.
Latest
Central Bedfordshire Council to JEAKINS WEIR LIMITED · Awarded 1 October 2026
Stratfield Mortimer Parish Council to White Horse Contractors Limited · Awarded 29 September 2026
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to DH Building Services · Awarded 17 September 2026
Cumberland Council to Story Contracting · Awarded 10 September 2026
Newport City Council to Centregreat · Awarded 10 September 2026
Sellafield Ltd to Amentum Clean Energy · Awarded 9 September 2026
Pensarn Civils & Groundworks Contract - 128 Dwellings (official notice, opens in a new tab)
Value not published
Creating Enterprise to Vectorex Construction · Awarded 9 September 2026
Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council to Bethell Construction · Awarded 7 September 2026
CO Construction - Lot 3 ECI Works - Western Isles 0327 (official notice, opens in a new tab)
Value not published
Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission PLC to supplier not published · Awarded 31 August 2026
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to Willmott Dixon · Awarded 12 August 2026
Largest
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to GRAHAM · Awarded 12 May 2026
Torridge District Council to Classic Builders (South West) Limited and Pearce Construction (Barnstaple) Limited · Awarded 25 June 2026
Energy Transition Zone Limited to CHAP Group · Awarded 26 February 2026
County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust to PROJECT GENESIS LIMITED · Awarded 8 June 2026
PCSA and Infrastructure Works at Avenue Campus Northampton (official notice, opens in a new tab)
£3.6m
West Northamptonshire Council to Montel Civil Engineering · Awarded 3 March 2026
Contracts awarded by quarter
Where the contracts were awarded
England 101 · Wales 11 · Scotland 9
What is included
Site preparation, earthworks, enabling works and infrastructure such as roads, drainage and utilities for development sites, plus small external groundworks projects and reactive groundwork repairs.
- Infrastructure works for housing developments
- Site preparation and associated civils frameworks
- Enabling works for new facilities
- Multi-service utilities for development phases
- Waste compounds and similar external works
- Groundworks for hostile vehicle mitigation schemes
- Reactive groundwork repairs to drainage, fencing, walling and paving
What is not included
- Contaminated land remediation as the main purpose (con.hazard.contaminated-land-remediation)
- Demolition (con.hazard.demolition)
- Car parks and estate roads (con.civils.estate-hard-surfacing)
- Piling (con.civils.piling-ground-engineering)
- Powered security barriers and gates (sec.access.vehicle-access-barriers-gates)
- Soft landscaping (another industry: landscaping-grounds)
- Skip hire and waste disposal (another industry: waste-environment)