Contract renewals

Every contract has an end date

151,062 UK public sector contracts have a published end date in the next four years. Each one is a re-tender with a date already attached, sitting in public data that almost nobody reads.

61,660
ending in the next 18 months: 16,815
in Q1 2027, the busiest quarter: 151,062
ending in the next four years

The incumbent has known their date since the day they signed. Everyone else finds out when the new tender appears, by which point the specification is written. Writing about this? The research page has the next 18 months cut by sector and by type of buyer, how each figure is counted, and the whole lot as CSV.

UK public contracts by end datefrom award notices with a published end date, each contract counted once

7,478

16,815

8,241

12,111

6,334

8,671

2,010

Hatched quarters fall only partly inside the next 18 months. Busiest whole quarter: Q1 2027.

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Month by month

What ends when, in the busiest categories

Contracts reaching their end date in each of the next 18 months, in the ten categories with the most. Darker means more. Click any square to see those contracts and who holds them.

Contracts ending each month over the next 18 months, by category
Category	Nov2026	Dec	Jan2027	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan2028	Feb	Mar	Apr	Total
Business and professional services	508	682	404	339	1335	405	351	360	399	476	414	287	249	292	193	194	568	95	7,551
Software and information systems	308	353	286	293	999	298	282	332	353	283	322	266	202	227	175	176	659	128	5,942
IT services	287	364	296	248	988	332	305	282	298	236	309	237	164	173	129	148	467	93	5,356
Construction works	521	592	349	249	825	208	184	192	194	296	212	269	116	168	108	95	316	131	5,025
Health and social care	134	136	192	99	1226	216	94	249	142	213	230	143	72	137	63	50	722	64	4,182
Architecture and engineering	271	451	181	163	840	191	159	206	204	159	174	165	93	175	90	86	306	68	3,982
Education and training	135	204	148	99	697	193	133	157	356	378	249	173	70	134	83	80	292	42	3,623
Transport services	27	233	32	23	208	83	44	43	2108	322	75	63	34	37	44	55	129	59	3,619
Repair and maintenance	102	153	128	113	484	123	128	136	155	117	151	117	72	76	66	71	271	56	2,519
Vehicles and transport equipment	186	104	65	75	249	67	46	69	536	88	56	54	59	38	46	53	82	27	1,900

By year

When contracts come up for renewal

Ending in

2026

62,372

contracts, across 3,618 buyers

Median £78k

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Ending in

2027

42,318

contracts, across 3,326 buyers

Median £110k

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Ending in

2028

27,392

contracts, across 2,920 buyers

Median £173k

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Ending in

2029

18,980

contracts, across 2,787 buyers

Median £271k

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Counts come from end dates published in the original award notices. Not every notice publishes one, so these are a floor rather than a complete picture of the market.

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