Firms with an address in London were named as the winning supplier on 1,464 public contract awards in notices published from 1 October 2026 to 31 October 2026 on Contracts Finder, Find a Tender and Public Contracts Scotland. The awards had a combined stated value of £1.99bn, and the median award was £113,023.
Firms the notices list as small or medium-sized enterprises won 621 of the 1,464 awards, worth £442.5m in total, with a median award of £90,726.
The five largest awards:
- Vita Health Solutions Ltd (London,): £93.2m from NHS Essex Integrated Care Board for “NHS Talking Therapies and Psychological Therapies for Severe Mental Health Problems…” (Find a Tender, published 1 October 2026).
- Birmingham District Energy Company Limited (London): £73.3m from Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust for “Heat and Power Supply and Heat Pump Operation, Birmingham Children’s Hospital” (Find a Tender, published 12 October 2026).
- Deloitte LLP (London): £70.4m from Home Office for “Metis ITO Extension” (Find a Tender, published 7 October 2026).
- Lovell Partnerships Limited (London): £67m from Ashfield District Council for “Housing Refurbishment Contract To various Council owned Properties throughout the…” (Find a Tender, published 7 October 2026).
- Sureserve Compliance South Limited (London): £65m from Portsmouth City Council for “Portsmouth City Council, Term Service Contract for the Servicing, Maintenance and…” (Find a Tender, published 6 October 2026).
The buyers that made the most awards to firms in the area: London Borough of Merton made 40; Environment Agency made 19; London Borough of Hillingdon made 19.
Separately, firms in the area were awarded two concession contracts, which are not in the totals above. The largest was Voi Technology UK Ltd’s concession from Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, with a stated value of £22.5m.
By the council area of the supplier’s address, the most awards went to firms in: London 336, Westminster 235, Camden 135, Southwark 128, Tower Hamlets 104, Islington 90.
How we counted: these are published contract award notices on Contracts Finder, Find a Tender and Public Contracts Scotland, not official procurement statistics. An award is counted when the supplier’s address on the notice is in London, or, where the notice gives no postcode, its registered office at Companies House is. The address on the notice can be a local or branch office of a firm based elsewhere. Each award is counted once, even when it appears on more than one system, and only on this title. Framework agreements, dynamic purchasing systems, dynamic markets and approved lists are excluded, as are values repeated across several suppliers on one notice, values shared by several suppliers, awards with no value, awards dated before 2026, awards to public bodies (including public bodies named on a notice only by an initialism or a short name) and notices of an intention to award. Values are as stated by the buyer: excluding VAT where Find a Tender gives that figure, otherwise as published. Concession contracts, whose stated value is the operator’s expected revenue rather than public spending, are not in the totals. Awards held back until checked: 20 above £100m and 10 call-off contracts of £20m or more.