Firms with an address in the North East were named as the winning supplier on 185 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 £164.2m, and the median award was £134,285.
Firms the notices list as small or medium-sized enterprises won 123 of the 185 awards, worth £59.4m in total, with a median award of £115,200.
The five largest awards:
- EQUANS Regeneration Limited (Newcastle upon Tyne): £23.5m from Ashfield District Council for “Housing Refurbishment Contract To various Council owned Properties throughout the…” (Find a Tender, published 7 October 2026).
- RE:GEN North East Limited: £19.9m from Prosper for “Gentoo Group, Chester Gate Phase 2A additional properties” (Contracts Finder, published 15 October 2026).
- Meldrum Group Limited: £17.8m from Prosper for “Anchor Housing, New Build Development” (Contracts Finder, published 20 October 2026).
- Arcadia Care No1 Ltd (Gateshead): £16m from Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust for “Enhanced Care Unit” (Find a Tender, published 9 October 2026).
- RE:GEN North East Limited: £10.9m from Prosper for “Thirteen Housing Group, WHSHF Works 2026-2028” (Contracts Finder, published 5 October 2026).
The buyers that made the most awards to firms in the area: Northumberland County Council made 11; Newcastle City Council made 10; North Tyneside Council made 9.
By the council area of the supplier’s address, the most awards went to firms in: County Durham 40, Newcastle upon Tyne 36, Gateshead 27, North Tyneside 22, Sunderland 17, Stockton-on-Tees 12.
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 the North East, 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: one above £100m and one call-off contract of £20m or more.