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Public sector contracts from Dorset Council
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- 34
- Awards, last 12 months
- 357
- Awards since 2021
- 354
- Distinct suppliers
- £1.8m
- Median contract value
- 25
- Ending in 18 months
Hatched quarters fall only partly inside the next 18 months. Busiest whole quarter: Q1 2028.
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- 6 contracts end in the next 6 months
- Has published 1 planned procurement
- Has awarded contracts every year since 2021
- Took on 24 new suppliers in the last 12 months
34 contract awards published in the last 12 months, down from 44 the year before, and 357 since 2021 from 354 suppliers.
Dorset Council at a glance
The median published contract value is £1.8m (354 contracts state a value).
Its most active procurement category is health and social care.
Future Roots Ltd appears most frequently, holding 9 awards.
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Awards per quarter
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25 contracts expiring in the next 18 months
Contract end dates are published in the original award notices. A contract approaching its end date is a re-tender with a date on it, and the point at which a buyer is most open to a conversation.
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Coming next
1 planned procurement
What Dorset Council has said it will buy, from the pipeline notices it publishes on Find a Tender: the work, the expected tender date and, where given, the value, before the tender is advertised.
Tender expected Oct 2026 (8 days ago)
Waste Treatment and Disposal Contract
£160.0mOpen procedureContract starts Sept 2027
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Latest contract awards
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Latest activity
What Dorset Council has published recently
Open tenders, and the awards from the last 12 months that the table above does not list, newest first.An award is dated by its award date, or by its publication date where the award date is missing or later.
15 Jun 2026 (5 months ago)
Planned procurement
Framework for the Supply of Operated and Self-Operated Plant Hire
Tender expected 27 Jul 2026
15 Jun 2026 (5 months ago)
26 May 2026 (5 months ago)
26 May 2026 (5 months ago)
Planned procurement
Open Framework for the Supply of Highway Construction Materials
Tender expected 30 Jun 2026
18 May 2026 (6 months ago)
16 Apr 2026 (7 months ago)
Planned procurement
Dorset Highways Contractor Resource (Top up labour) Framework
Tender expected 11 May 2026
27 Mar 2026 (7 months ago)
11 Mar 2026 (8 months ago)
Contract award
Awarded to Lookers Group
26 Feb 2026 (8 months ago)
22 Jan 2026 (9 months ago)
Contract award
Awarded to Continuous Data Print (UK) Ltd
5 Jan 2026 (10 months ago)
Contract award
Contract for Hospital Based Detoxification Services
Awarded to Universities Hospital Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
19 Dec 2025 (11 months ago)
9 Dec 2025 (11 months ago)
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Most frequent suppliers
- Future Roots Ltd9 awards
- TheHorseCourse7 awards
- Stabilised Pavements LimitedSME7 awards
- Dorset Wellbeing6 awards
- Five Rivers Child Care Limited6 awards
- Motor-Ready6 awards
- Stepnell Limited6 awards
- Julian HouseCharity6 awards
- Riverside Truck Rental Limited6 awards
- Bespoke Learning Ltd5 awards
How much goes to small firms and the voluntary sector
131 of 201 awards
4 of 149 awards
Awards since November 2023 where Dorset Council recorded on the notice whether the winner was an SME or voluntary sector organisation. The badges next to each supplier are stricter: a supplier is only badged when every buyer's notices agree.
Every supplier to Dorset Council with a profile119
- 1st Staff LimitedSME4
- 24x7 LTD2
- Abbots Care Limited2
- ACCESS UK Ltd1
- AEBI SCHMIDT UK Limited1
- AECOM Limited1
- Aggregate Industries UK LTD1
- Agincare UK LTD1
- Amberon Limited1
- Apex Prime Care Ltd2
- Ashdale Engineering UK Limited1
- Bituchem Building Products Limited1
- Bournemouth Churches Housing AssociationVoluntary sector4
- Bradfords Building Supplies Limited2
- Brandon Hire Station Ltd1
- Bucher Municipal Limited4
- C.P. Davidson & Sons Limited2
- CAPITA Business Services Limited2
- Caring for Communities and PeopleCharity2
- Civica Election Services (CES) Limited2
- Cleansing Service Group Limited2
- Clee Hill Plant Limited1
- COLAS Limited2
- Compass Minerals UK Limited1
- Connor Construction (South West) Limited1
- Contenur (UK) Limited1
- CorEnergy Limited2
- DAF Trucks Limited1
- Delib Limited1
- Denham Procurement & Sourcing Solutions Limited1
- DNA Legal LimitedSME3
- Eden Housing and Support Limited2
- Eibe Play Limited1
- Eleanor Nursing and Social Care LTD1
- Endurance Vehicle Solutions Limited2
- Eurovia Infrastructure Limited2
- Family Action LtdCharity2
- FCS Software Solutions Limited1
- Five Rivers Child Care Limited6
- Fleet Factors Limited2
- Fresh Start in Education LTD4
- GAP Group Limited1
- GRANICUS-FIRMSTEP Ltd1
- HAGS-SMP Limited1
- Havas People Limited1
- Health Management Limited1
- Humankind CharityCharity2
- Huume LTD1
- HUWS Gray Ltd1
- IDOX SOFTWARE Ltd1
- Imosphere Limited1
- IPL Plastics (UK) LTD1
- Julian HouseCharity6
- Kiely Bros. Limited2
- Knights Brown Construction Limited2
- KOMPAN Limited1
- Limelight Signs Limited1
- Lookers Group1
- Lowther Forestry Group Limited1
- Lyreco UK LTD2
- Miles Macadam Limited2
- Mind Of My Own Ltd1
- MPD FM Limited1
- Multevo Limited1
- Nisai Virtual Academy Ltd3
- North East Truck and Van Limited2
- NYAS1
- OLM Systems Limited1
- OptimalCarePlus Limited1
- Paramount Packaging (UK) LimitedSME1
- Placecube Limited1
- Potens1
- Preservica LTD2
- PriceWaterHouseCoopers LLP1
- Pro Landscapes MDX LtdSME1
- PROACTIS Limited1
- Proludic LTD1
- QUBE Construct Ltd1
- Riverside Truck Rental Limited6
- Road Maintenance Services Limited2
- Royal Voluntary ServiceCharity1
- Saanchi Solutions LimitedSME2
- Safe Families for ChildrenSMECharity1
- Sagoss LimitedSME1
- Saint-Gobain Building Distribution Limited1
- Salvation Army Housing Association1
- Signis Limited1
- SOCOTEC UK Limited3
- Somerset NHS Foundation Trust1
- Specialist Fleet Services Limited1
- Spetisbury Construction Ltd1
- Stabilised Pavements LimitedSME7
- Starlight Healthcare Limited2
- Stepnell Limited6
- STM Group (UK) Limited3
- Stonewater Limited2
- SUEZ Recycling & Recovery UK LTD1
- Sunbelt Rentals Limited1
- Sustrans LimitedCharity1
- Symology Limited2
- Targeted Provision Ltd5
- Tarmac Trading Limited1
- Teaching Personnel Limited5
- The Advocacy PeopleCharity1
- The Appropriate Adult Service Limited2
- The Breastfeeding Network1
- The National Youth Advocacy ServiceSMECharity1
- The YOU TrustCharity5
- Tripod Crest Limited1
- Tructyre Fleet Management Limited3
- Upton Specialised Tree Services LimitedSME1
- Velocity UK Limited1
- Vita Health Group Limited1
- WayThroughCharity1
- Wernick Hire Limited1
- Westmade Limited1
- Wicksteed Leisure LTD1
- Zurich Municipal PLC1
- Newton Europe Limited2
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Most active categories
The CPV codes on this work
The codes Dorset Council classifies its contracts under. Each one shows who else buys that work, the typical value, and what is coming up for renewal.
- 85000000Health and social work services33
- 45210000Building construction work10
- 09330000Solar energy9
- 48000000Software package and information systems8
- 34144511Refuse-collection vehicles8
- 98000000Other community, social and personal services6
- 60100000Road transport services5
- 79710000Security services4
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Dorset Council, in short
Who does Dorset Council award contracts to?
Across 357 contracts recorded since 2021, Dorset Council has used 354 different suppliers. The most frequent are Future Roots Ltd (9 contracts), TheHorseCourse (7 contracts), Stabilised Pavements Limited (7 contracts).
What does Dorset Council buy?
Its most active procurement categories are health and social care, education and training, vehicles and transport equipment. Categories are derived from the CPV codes published on each award notice.
When do Dorset Council contracts come up for renewal?
25 contracts awarded by Dorset Council have an end date within the next 18 months, the earliest on 9 Dec 2026. End dates come from the original award notices, so they are visible well before any re-tender is advertised.
How much does Dorset Council spend on contracts?
The median published contract value is £1.8m, across the 354 contracts that state a value. Published values are not added up here: a framework's value is a ceiling shared by every supplier on it, and the same value is often repeated across lots, so adding them up would overstate what is spent.
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Buyers like Dorset Council
Other local authorities based in the South West with a page33
Same type of body, by the address on their own notices. Most published awards first.
How these figures are worked out
- The last 12 months: award notices published from 8 November 2025 to 7 November 2026, each contract counted once however many suppliers or rows it has. The same window is used everywhere on this page.
- Year on year: Its published contract awards have fallen in each of the last two years. Contracts by publication date in the 12 months to 7 Nov 2026 and the two years before it, oldest first: 71, 44 and 34. A change of more than 15% counts as a rise or fall; each year needs at least 5 contracts.
- 6 contracts end in the next 6 months: Published end dates between 7 November 2026 and 7 May 2027, each contract counted once.
- Has published 1 planned procurement: Pipeline notices on Find a Tender whose expected tender date is still to come, or passed in the last 30 days.
- Has awarded contracts every year since 2021: At least one contract in every calendar year from 2021 to 2026, by award date (or publication date where the award date is later). Our records begin in 2021.
- Took on 24 new suppliers in the last 12 months: Suppliers named on a contract it awarded and published since 8 November 2025, and on none before. Counted by organisation, not by spelling.
- Most recent award: recorded 25 Sept 2026 (6 weeks ago).
- Values: value figures cover the 354 of 357 contracts where a value was published. Values are never added up: framework ceilings and values repeated across lots would make a total meaningless.
- Since 2021: totals count contracts by award date from January 2021, and suppliers by organisation rather than by spelling.
Sources
Contract data on this page is sourced from Find a Tender and Contracts Finder and published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under that licence. Figures cover contract award notices published from January 2021 onward, with comprehensive coverage from 2023. Earlier contracts, and any award not published to Find a Tender or Contracts Finder, will not appear. Figures may lag the source portals. Relative dates (such as “in 6 days”) count from 7 November 2026, when this page was built.
How to cite this data
Tender Radar (2026) Public sector contracts from Dorset Council [Dataset]. Professor AI. Available at: https://tender-radar.co.uk/buyers/dorset-council (Accessed: 7 November 2026).
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