Free Guide: Barnet Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for London Borough of Barnet · London borough · London
Data covering 2013 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£6.5bn
Transactions
1,328,767
Suppliers
6,314
Key Takeaways
- £6.5 billion in recorded spend across over 1.3 million transactions since 2013
- 6,314 identified suppliers spread across 22 sectors with an unconcentrated HHI of 306
- 78 tenders worth £426 million published, with open competition on half of recent contracts
£6.5 billion and counting: how big is Barnet as a buyer?
Barnet is one of London's larger boroughs, serving nearly 400,000 residents across 33.6 square miles of outer north-west London. And the spending data matches that scale. Our dataset covers £6.5 billion in recorded spend across more than 1.3 million payment transactions, drawn from 168 source files published between 2013 and 2026. That is a deep and long-running spending history. The contract records tell a different story in terms of volume, with just 30 published contracts worth a combined £72.3 million. But the tender pipeline is much busier: 78 tenders valued at roughly £426 million. That gap between contract records and tender activity is worth noting. It suggests Barnet publishes more at the opportunity stage than at the award stage, so if you're tracking this council, the tender feed is where the action is. Barnet sits within the GLA combined authority, which may also shape how some procurement is routed.
Capita and the GLA dominate, but the market is wide open beneath them
Of the 6,314 suppliers we've identified across Barnet's spend, two names tower over the rest. Capita Business Services and Greater London Authority Holdings have each received around £362 million, together accounting for a large share of tracked payments. RE (Regional Enterprise) Limited follows at £173 million. The top five suppliers account for 31.5% of recorded spend, and the top ten for 44.1%. But here is the interesting part: Barnet's HHI score is just 306, which is unconcentrated. That means below the headline names, spending is spread across thousands of suppliers. On the sector side, health and social work leads at 16.1% of spend with 1,012 matched suppliers, followed by real estate (11.6%), construction (11.4%), and IT and communications (11.1%). Education accounts for 8.9%. No single sector dominates, and the supplier base in each is broad. If you're in professional services or admin support, those sectors alone cover over £480 million in tracked spend between them.
Half the contracts go to open tender, but direct awards are creeping in
Looking at the 8 contracts where we have procurement method data, 4 were awarded through open competition, 3 went as direct awards, and 1 was a limited procedure. That is a fairly even split between competitive and non-competitive routes. The median contract value sits at roughly £703,000, and 6 of the 8 contracts were above the procurement threshold, so this is not small-scale purchasing. The tender pipeline paints a broader picture. With 78 published tenders worth £426 million, Barnet is actively going to market. The mix of open and direct awards in the contract data is something to watch. Three direct awards out of eight is not unusual for a London borough, but it does mean a portion of the work goes to known suppliers without a public competition stage. The contract sample here is small, so it is hard to draw firm conclusions about Barnet's overall procurement preferences from these numbers alone.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LTD | £362,431,125 |
| 2 | GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY HOLDINGS LIMITED | £361,936,333 |
| 3 | RE (REGIONAL ENTERPRISE) LIMITED | £173,238,079 |
| 4 | LONDON BOROUGH OF JAM LIMITED | £116,399,445 |
| 5 | MATRIX SCM LIMITED | £115,078,200 |
| 6 | TRANSPORT TRADING LIMITED | £100,441,442 |
| 7 | TBG OPEN DOOR LIMITED | £99,700,272 |
| 8 | JOHN GRAY CONSTRUCTION LTD | £97,138,001 |
| 9 | NETWORK RAIL INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED | £80,906,501 |
| 10 | COMENSURA LIMITED | £72,652,990 |
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