East Sussex County Council

What they have awarded, by year

Our award history is not continuous. We hold notices published January 2021 to July 2022, and September 2022 to November 2022, and July 2023 to August 2026, and nothing published between December 2022 and June 2023 — a gap of 7 months. Any period overlapping that gap is understated here, and the change between periods is not a market trend.

• 2024£258,377,229 · 123
• 2025£613,088,309 · 148
• 2026£161,809,818 · 234

Years with no bar are years we hold no award notices for this buyer — which may mean they bought nothing, or that we do not have that period. We do not fill gaps in.

What they buy

• Construction161 contracts
• Vehicles127 contracts
• Transport110 contracts
• Health & social100 contracts
• Education42 contracts
• Software33 contracts
• Architecture & engineering28 contracts
• Business services23 contracts
• Repair & maintenance22 contracts
• IT services13 contracts

Who wins their work

• EAST KENT ROAD CAR COMPANY, LIMITED32 awards
• 24x7 Ltd20 awards
• COLOURS DECORATING LIMITED19 awards
• EAST SURREY RURAL TRANSPORT PARTNERSHIP16 awards
• 247 Transport Solutions Ltd16 awards
• Vics transport15 awards
• George Stone Limited15 awards
• Southern Travel Solutions Ltd15 awards
• JOHN FARRINGTON & CO LIMITED14 awards
• COMPASS TRAVEL (SUSSEX) LTD14 awards

How contested their contracts are

Of the awards that report it, the average was 3.7 bidders, and 22 were awarded to a single bidder — 37% of that sample.

Based on the 60 of 699 awards that publish a bidder count — buyers are not required to, and most do not.

How often they buy

Across the period we hold, East Sussex County Council has awarded a contract roughly every 0.1 months on average.

That is an average across all their categories, not a schedule — and it is not a prediction of when any particular contract comes up. UK award notices almost never publish a contract end date, so nobody can build a reliable expiry calendar from open data. Why that is, and what works instead.