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Road resurfacing contracts

UK public sector · 352 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
352
Last 12 months
Median contract
£240k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£423m
316 of 346 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
50
Suppliers
68

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most road resurfacing contracts took 52% of them (184 of 352).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter rose 54% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £240k, is 74% above the median across construction & trades contracts (£139k).

Who buys road resurfacing

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

  1. 1Highways England84 contracts
  2. 2Nottingham City Council72 contracts
  3. 3North Lincolnshire Council28 contracts
  4. 4Kirklees Council22 contracts
  5. 5Wakefield Council21 contracts
  6. 6Derbyshire County Council18 contracts
  7. 7DERBY CITY COUNCIL12 contracts
  8. 8City of Doncaster Council8 contracts
  9. 9Bristol City Council6 contracts
  10. 10Hull City Council5 contracts

Top road resurfacing contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1THOMAS BOW LIMITED51 contracts
  2. 2Heidelberg Materials39 contracts
  3. 3Derek Lewis Ltd37 contracts
  4. 4Tarmac29 contracts
  5. 5Aggregate Industries28 contracts
  6. 6EC Surfacing Ltd18 contracts
  7. 7FM Conway Limited13 contracts
  8. 8Miles Macadam8 contracts
  9. 9Breedon Colas8 contracts
  10. 10Galliford Try7 contracts

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

65Q4 2025*67Q1 2026116Q2 2026103Q3 20261Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 333 · Wales 12 · Scotland 4 · Northern Ireland 3

Yorkshire and The Humber91East Midlands21North East14Wales12South West11South East9North West6East of England4Scotland4West Midlands3Northern Ireland3UK-wide or not stated174

What is included

Planned resurfacing, planing and inlay, patching and full reconstruction of road carriageways, with ironwork adjustment and associated highway works.

  • Carriageway resurfacing programmes and schemes
  • Road planing and cold milling
  • Carriageway and structural patching
  • Road and concrete pavement reconstruction
  • Ironwork replacement within resurfacing
  • Asphalt resurfacing term contracts and minor surfacing frameworks
  • Surface reinforcement membranes laid with repairs

What is not included

  • Surface dressing and micro-surfacing (con.civils.surface-treatments)
  • Footways and cycleways (con.civils.footways-cycleways)
  • Car parks, estate roads and playgrounds (con.civils.estate-hard-surfacing)
  • Multi-activity term contracts (con.civils.highway-term-maintenance)
  • Supply of asphalt, cold-lay or aggregates (another family: site, aggregates, asphalt and concrete supply)
  • Airport runways, taxiways and aprons (con.civils.airfield-pavements)

Often bought by the same buyers