Procurement insights

The Contract Expiry Wall

121,826 UK & Ireland public contracts are set to expire in the next 24 months, each one a re-tender a supplier can prepare for now. Here is when, and who holds them today.

When contracts expire

15,658Q4 2625,394Q1 2713,745Q2 2716,563Q3 2710,152Q4 2716,563Q1 289,424Q2 2812,893Q3 281,434Q4 28

By sector

  • IT & Software20,482
  • Healthcare & Medical19,260
  • Construction & Works15,621
  • Research & Consultancy11,832
  • Transport & Logistics9,618
  • Architecture & Design9,519
  • Facilities Management8,547
  • Goods & Supplies7,973

By nation

  • England73,028
  • Ireland8,902
  • Scotland2,773
  • Wales1,978
  • Northern Ireland1,508
  • Isle of Man4
  • Channel Islands1

Contracts to watch

The next single-supplier contracts to expire, with the current holder named. Click a title to read the contract you’d be bidding to replace.

How we measured this

UK & Ireland public contracts on TenderSignal with a recorded end date in the next 24 months, as of 2026-10-24. We lead with counts, not a total value: a single framework or DPS ceiling can run to tens of billions, so summing values misleads. Frameworks and DPS are excluded from every value figure here; "median" is the median recorded contract value per quarter. A contract expiring is a signal that a re-tender is likely to follow, not a guarantee: timing and scope are the buyer's. Figures move daily.