Free Guide: Brentwood Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Brentwood Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · East of England
Data covering 2020 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£307.5m
Transactions
28,892
Suppliers
823
Key Takeaways
- £307.5 million in recorded spend across 28,892 transactions from 2020 to 2026
- 56.6% of matched spend goes to just five suppliers, led by Axis Europe
- Construction dominates at 40.6% of spend across 69 identified suppliers
How big a buyer is Brentwood?
Brentwood is a non-metropolitan district in Essex, covering 59.1 square miles with a population of around 77,000. Our data covers £307.5 million in recorded spend across 28,892 transactions, drawn from 52 source files collected between 2020 and 2026. For a borough council of this size, that is a decent volume of purchasing activity. We have matched 849 suppliers to company records, spread across 20 sector categories. The spending data comes from brentwood.gov.uk and Find a Tender, collected up to November 2025. Two tenders worth a combined £2.75 million sit in the pipeline. On the contracts side, the published record is thin, with just one contract listing and no recorded contract value. So the transaction-level spend data is really where the picture comes from here. If you are sizing up this council, the payment records are where the real detail sits.
Construction runs this council's spend profile
Axis Europe Limited sits at the top of the supplier table with £24.8 million in recorded spend, and it is not close. The next largest, Alliance Leisure Services, comes in at £7.2 million. Birketts LLP follows at £5.95 million. Between them, the top five identified suppliers account for 56.6% of matched spend, and the top ten take 65.2%. The HHI score is 1,270, which is unconcentrated but not by a wide margin. Construction as a sector takes 40.6% of all matched spend, pulling in £30.8 million across 69 suppliers. Education sits second at 9.6%, though much of that flows through a single supplier. Professional and technical services involve 131 suppliers but only 5.2% of spend, which suggests lots of smaller engagements. Admin and support services follow a similar pattern. The money is concentrated in construction, but the supplier base outside it is fairly fragmented.
Where's the formal procurement trail?
This is where Brentwood's profile gets interesting. Of the contracts we hold, there is just one published record with no value attached, and no breakdown by procurement method. The two tenders in our dataset are worth £2.75 million combined, sourced from Find a Tender. That means almost everything we know about Brentwood's buying comes from 28,892 payment transactions rather than structured contract or tender data. There is no method distribution to analyse, no split between open competition and direct awards, and no median contract value to benchmark against. For a bid manager, this makes it harder to judge how accessible new work might be through formal routes. The spending records show the money is flowing, and it is flowing to a broad base of 823 identified suppliers. But how those relationships started, whether through frameworks, tenders, or direct engagement, is not something the published records make clear.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | AXIS EUROPE LIMITED | £24,760,736 |
| 2 | ALLIANCE LEISURE SERVICES LIMITED | £7,175,876 |
| 3 | BIRKETTS LLP | £5,954,364 |
| 4 | OPUS PEOPLE SOLUTIONS GROUP LIMITED | £2,547,657 |
| 5 | SEVEN ARCHES INVESTMENTS LIMITED | £2,444,809 |
| 6 | ZURICH INSURANCE COMPANY LTD | £1,969,243 |
| 7 | EDF ENERGY CUSTOMERS LIMITED | £1,354,746 |
| 8 | LYNX TREASURY SERVICES LIMITED | £1,299,125 |
| 9 | NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY | £1,000,000 |
| 10 | OPUS ENERGY (CORPORATE) LIMITED | £942,547 |
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CouncilLedger brings together spending records, contract awards, and tender notices from over 400 UK local authorities into one procurement intelligence platform. Our data covers 16 years of transactions, collected directly from council transparency publications and government procurement platforms. Search suppliers, track spending trends, discover tender opportunities, and monitor the contracts that matter to your business.
