About Caerphilly County Borough Council
Caerphilly County Borough Council is a unitary authority in the south Wales valleys, covering Caerphilly, Bargoed, Blackwood, Risca and the surrounding communities. Welsh local government is unitary throughout, so the council carries education, social services, housing, highways, waste and planning responsibilities in a single organisation.
The feature that most shapes its procurement is housing. Caerphilly retained its council housing rather than transferring it to a housing association, which means the authority is also a large landlord with a continuous programme of repairs, improvements, heating replacement and compliance work across thousands of properties. Very few English authorities of comparable size carry that combination.
Recent awards by Caerphilly County Borough Council
Notices are published on Sell2Wales, with above threshold activity also reaching Find a Tender. The award history is weighted towards works and materials rather than services, which is what a retained stock landlord with an active school building programme produces.
A note on data completeness: the Sell2Wales upstream feed has been intermittently unavailable since March 2026, so recent Welsh coverage in this dataset is thinner than it should be. Suppliers should treat the portal itself as the authoritative source rather than any aggregated view, including ours.
Frameworks Caerphilly County Borough Council uses
Welsh collaborative arrangements come from several directions. The Welsh Procurement Alliance operates buying arrangements widely used by Welsh councils and social landlords for construction, maintenance and housing categories. The National Procurement Service arrangements and Welsh Government frameworks cover corporate and common categories. UK wide Crown Commercial Service agreements are available where no Welsh equivalent exists.
The council also runs its own contractor frameworks for housing repairs and planned maintenance, which is where the recurring volume sits for building trades. Those arrangements typically admit a panel of contractors who then receive work through call off rather than through repeated competition.
Common CPVs procured by Caerphilly County Borough Council
Division 45, construction work, is the leading division by a clear margin. Division 80, education and training services, follows and reflects both school improvement activity and the training the council commissions. Division 44, construction structures and materials, is unusually prominent and is the marker of a direct labour organisation buying materials itself rather than contracting the whole job out. Division 71 covers engineering and inspection services supporting the capital programme, and division 90 covers waste, cleaning and environmental services.
Frequently asked questions
Does the council still own its housing?
Yes. Caerphilly retained its council housing stock rather than transferring it, which makes the authority a large social landlord as well as a council. For suppliers this means a continuous pipeline of repairs, void works, heating and electrical compliance, roofing, window replacement and energy efficiency work, typically procured through contractor frameworks rather than individual project tenders.
Do I need Welsh language capability to supply Caerphilly?
For most works and materials contracts, no. Where a contract involves public facing service delivery or communications with residents, Welsh language standards apply to the council and bilingual requirements may be passed into the specification and scored. Read the specification rather than assuming either way, because the requirement varies sharply by contract type.
What is the Welsh Procurement Alliance?
It is a collaborative buying organisation operating framework arrangements for Welsh councils, housing associations and other public bodies, concentrated in construction, housing maintenance and associated categories. For a building trade or materials supplier targeting Welsh local government, its frameworks are usually a more productive entry point than approaching individual councils.
Where should suppliers look for Caerphilly opportunities?
Sell2Wales first, because it carries the widest range including lower value opportunities that never reach the UK wide platforms. Find a Tender covers above threshold notices. The council's own contract register is also worth reading, because it shows expiry dates and therefore tells you when a category will next come to market.
| Title | CPV category | Value | Award date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Winding House - Boiler Replacement | Boiler installation work | £30,000 | 2026-09-09 |
| Bargoed Library - Lime Render to Side Elevation | Buildings of particular historical or architectural interest | £60,000 | 2026-09-09 |
| Installation and Supply of Structured Cabling with Maintenance and Support | Building installation work | £2,000,000 | 2026-09-11 |
| Ongoing Applications | Personnel-training services | £7,000,000 | 2029-12-21 |
| Data as of 09 Aug 2026 | |||
Frequently asked questions
Does the council still own its housing?
Yes. Caerphilly retained its council housing stock rather than transferring it, which makes the authority a large social landlord as well as a council. For suppliers this means a continuous pipeline of repairs, void works, heating and electrical compliance, roofing, window replacement and energy efficiency work, typically procured through contractor frameworks rather than individual project tenders.
Do I need Welsh language capability to supply Caerphilly?
For most works and materials contracts, no. Where a contract involves public facing service delivery or communications with residents, Welsh language standards apply to the council and bilingual requirements may be passed into the specification and scored. Read the specification rather than assuming either way, because the requirement varies sharply by contract type.
What is the Welsh Procurement Alliance?
It is a collaborative buying organisation operating framework arrangements for Welsh councils, housing associations and other public bodies, concentrated in construction, housing maintenance and associated categories. For a building trade or materials supplier targeting Welsh local government, its frameworks are usually a more productive entry point than approaching individual councils.
Where should suppliers look for Caerphilly opportunities?
Sell2Wales first, because it carries the widest range including lower value opportunities that never reach the UK wide platforms. Find a Tender covers above threshold notices. The council's own contract register is also worth reading, because it shows expiry dates and therefore tells you when a category will next come to market.