Sports, games and instruments contracts expiring in East Midlands: 31 worth £37m

31 sports, games and instruments contracts in East Midlands carry a published end date, worth £37m between them. They are held across 7 buyers, and the typical one is worth £300k.

17 of them expire within twelve months, and 15 are already inside the window where the buyer would normally be shaping the replacement. That is 55% of this market back in play inside a year.

62 different suppliers hold the work, and the three largest hold 15% of it. That is a fragmented market, which usually means no single relationship is decisive and a smaller supplier can win on merit.

26 are frameworks rather than a single contract, so a large part of this market is reached by getting onto a supplier list first and competing for call-offs afterwards.

The most active buyers are Leicestershire County Council, trading as ESPO (21), ESPO (5), High Peak Borough Council (1).

The contracts here are most often held by DALER-ROWNEY LIMITED (8), AMPLE STAR ENTERPRISES UK LIMITED (6), BRIGHT IDEAS MARKETING LIMITED (6).