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Colchester City Council

  • ONS/GSS code: E07000071
  • Procurement buyer identifier: GB-FTS-74782
  • Procurement buyer (PPON): PCVM-1775-YNRP
  • Contracts Finder buyer: GB-CFS-232137
Councillors
Not measured
Register coverage stated below
Planning
Not measured
No dated applications
Procurement
41
Buyer-identifier matched
Payments
Not measured
Payment coverage stated below
Meetings
Not measured
Committee coverage stated below
Observed
2025-03-04 → 2026-07-27
58 source records held
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Investigate Colchester City Council

How does this authority award public money?
Held
£44,834,632

41 published procurement notices name this authority as buyer. Published award values are contract values, not payments made.

Notices
41
With published value
38
Value not published
3
Where does the money actually go?
Not measured
Not measured

The published payments dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

Who wins contracts from this authority?
Held
27

Ranked on the values published in the award notices themselves.

Seager Heating Ltd
£10,108,000
Rose Builders Ltd
£6,790,573
Energy Assets Ltd
£5,000,000
Houghton & Son Ltd
£4,000,000
Kingdom Cleaning Ltd
£3,000,000
Who runs the authority?
Not measured
Not measured

The councillor records dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

What is being planned and built?
Not measured
Not measured

The planning applications dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

What has the authority decided?
Not measured
Not measured

The meetings dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured. The recorded decisions dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

Meetings
Not measured
Decisions
Not measured
Committees
Not measured
Who and what is this council connected to?
Held
27

27 identified organisations and people. Planning applications and notices are evidence, not connections, and are counted separately.

Suppliers
27
Councillors
0
Records excluded as activity
0
§ 01

Public money

Held
Published award value
£44,834,632
Notices (buyer identifier)
41
Value not published
3
Observed
2025-03-04 → 2026-07-27

These are values published in contract notices, not payments made. Notices with no published value are counted separately and never treated as £0.

Top suppliers

Largest published awards

View all procurement →

Actual published spending

The payment records dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

§ 02

Who runs the authority

Not measured

The councillor records dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

17 wards held for this authority, each with a published GSS code.

§ 03

What is being planned and built

Not measured

The planning applications dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

§ 04

Decisions and meetings

Not measured

The meetings dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

The recorded decisions dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

§ 05

Elections

Not measured

The local election records dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

§ 06

Connections

Held

Connections are other identified organisations and people. Planning applications, notices and payments are this authority's own activity, so they are counted as evidence and never as connections.

  • Abacus Playgrounds Ltd
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £185,000 · 1 award
  • Bakers of Danbury Ltd
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £565,000 · 1 award
  • Barefoot & Gilles Architects
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £55,000 · 1 award
  • Bechtle Limited
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £576,235 · 1 award
  • Bunzl UK Ltd T/A Bunzl Cleaning & Hygiene Supplies
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £120,000 · 1 award
  • Capricorn Ventis Ltd (Capventis)
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £35,284 · 1 award
  • Code Enigma Ltd
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £180,540 · 1 award
  • Contenur UK Ltd
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £33,500 · 1 award
  • Energy Assets Ltd
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £5,000,000 · 1 award
  • Highview Group Ltd
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £1,133,000 · 3 awards
  • Houghton & Son Ltd
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £4,000,000 · 1 award
  • IPL PLASTICS (UK) LTD
    Named as supplier on notices published against this authority's buyer identifier
    Supplier
    £2,500,000 · 2 awards
§ 07

Cross-domain timeline

§ 08

About this evidence

Coverage, sources and identifiers

Records held

  • Procurement notices41
  • Wards17
  • Total source records58

0 internal graph edges derive from these records. They are not evidence and are excluded from every total on this page.

Provenance

  • Procurement
    Publisher: Contracts Finder
    38 records · observed 2025-03-04 → 2026-07-27

    Award values are the values published in the notice. They are not payments made.

    Example source record ↗
  • Procurement
    Publisher: Find a Tender
    3 records · observed 2026-04-29 → 2026-06-29

    Award values are the values published in the notice. They are not payments made.

    Example source record ↗

Identity

  • ONS/GSS codeE07000071Published by ONS / Local authority register
  • Procurement buyer identifierGB-FTS-74782Find a Tender buyer record, exact name match
  • Procurement buyer (PPON)PCVM-1775-YNRPFind a Tender buyer record, exact name match
  • Contracts Finder buyerGB-CFS-232137Contracts Finder buyer record, exact name match
  • Folio referenceE07000071Folio internal reference