Free Guide: Bath and North East Somerset Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Bath and North East Somerset Council · Unitary authority · South West
Data covering 2010 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£4.9bn
Transactions
1,350,142
Suppliers
5,370
Key Takeaways
- £4.9 billion in recorded spend across 1.35 million transactions since 2010
- 5,370 identified suppliers with an unconcentrated market at HHI 148
- Health and social care accounts for 30% of matched spending
£4.9 billion over 15 years: what does that tell you?
Bath and North East Somerset is a unitary authority covering about 196,000 people in the West of England combined authority area. Our dataset covers £4.9 billion in recorded spend across 1.35 million transactions, drawn from 58 source files published between 2010 and 2026. That is a deep spending history for a council this size. On the contracts side, we've tracked 95 published contracts worth a combined £4.4 million, plus 153 tenders with a total value of £289 million. The gap between those two figures is worth noting. The tender pipeline is running at a much higher value than the contract records alone would suggest, which means there is active procurement happening here beyond what shows up in contract registers. Data sources include the council's own site and Find a Tender, with collection running up to January 2026. For a mid-sized unitary, this is a buyer with consistent, trackable activity.
Health and construction dominate, but nobody owns this market
Across the spending records we hold, health and social work takes the biggest share at 29.8% of matched spend, with 646 identified suppliers. Construction follows at 14%, then professional and technical services at 13.9%. Those three sectors account for well over half the money. Look at the top suppliers and you'll see a similar split. Sirona Care Services and Sirona Care & Health together account for over £130 million, making them the council's biggest care partners by a wide margin. VolkerHighways (£69.7 million) and Skanska (£44 million) lead on construction. But here is the important part: the market is genuinely unconcentrated. An HHI of just 148, with the top five suppliers holding only 21.9% of spend and the top ten at 30.4%. Of the 5,370 identified suppliers in our data, spending is spread broadly. If you're targeting health services here, you're entering a crowded field.
How open is the front door?
Our procurement data for Bath and North East Somerset is limited to six contracts with recorded method details. Of those, five went through open tender and one used an unrecorded method. No direct awards show up in what we've captured. The median contract value sits at around £909,000, and five of the six contracts were above threshold. That points to a council that, at least in the published data, is running its larger procurements through competitive routes. With 153 tenders worth £289 million in the pipeline data, there is clearly more activity than the contract records alone capture. Worth bearing in mind that the six contracts with method data represent a small slice of overall procurement. But based on what we can see, the open tender route appears to be the default for above-threshold work. Whether smaller, below-threshold spending follows the same pattern is harder to say from the data we hold.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | KESWICK COMMUNITY HOUSING TRUST LIMITED | £74,185,548 |
| 2 | SIRONA CARE SERVICES LIMITED | £73,815,622 |
| 3 | VOLKERHIGHWAYS LIMITED | £69,687,853 |
| 4 | SIRONA CARE & HEALTH C.I.C. | £56,437,923 |
| 5 | SKANSKA CONSTRUCTION UK LIMITED | £43,952,876 |
| 6 | H. MEALING & SONS LIMITED | £35,403,750 |
| 7 | CEDAR CARE HOMES LIMITED | £33,005,676 |
| 8 | MATRIX SCM LIMITED | £28,813,225 |
| 9 | BARCHESTER HEALTHCARE HOMES LIMITED | £25,805,474 |
| 10 | COMENSURA LIMITED | £25,008,004 |
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