Free Guide: Calderdale Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council · Metropolitan district · Yorkshire and The Humber
Data covering 2010 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£2.4bn
Transactions
669,789
Suppliers
6,201
Key Takeaways
- £2.4 billion in recorded spend across nearly 670,000 transactions since 2014
- 6,201 identified suppliers spread across 22 sectors with an unconcentrated HHI of 117
- 77 tenders worth £625 million are published, but all 5 tracked contracts were direct awards
£2.4 billion and counting: how big a buyer is Calderdale?
For a metropolitan borough of around 211,000 people in West Yorkshire, Calderdale moves a lot of money. Our data covers £2.4 billion in recorded spend across nearly 670,000 payment transactions, drawn from 265 source files going back to 2014. That's a deep dataset by any standard. On the contracts side, we've tracked 87 published contracts worth a combined £26.1 million, plus 77 tenders with a total value of £625 million. The gap between those two figures is worth noting. The tender pipeline is large relative to the recorded contract values, which suggests either that many contracts haven't been formally published yet or that Calderdale structures its procurement in ways that don't always surface in contract registers. Either way, if you're sizing up this council as a market, the transaction-level spend data tells you more than the contract register alone. The data runs through to late 2025, so it's current.
Health dominates, but the supplier base is wide open
Health and social work takes the biggest share of recorded spend at 27.5%, with £440 million going to 565 identified suppliers in that sector. Education follows at 12%, then construction at 10.5%. Among the top suppliers we've matched, Calderdale Schools Limited leads with £97.9 million, followed by Sita UK at £58.9 million and Locala Community Partnerships at £55.1 million. But here's the thing: the market is not concentrated. Calderdale's HHI score is just 117, which is very low. The top five suppliers account for only 18.3% of spend, and the top ten for 26.4%. Across the 6,201 suppliers we've identified, spending is spread broadly. You won't find a handful of incumbents locking everything down. That said, health and social care providers do cluster near the top of the rankings, so if you're targeting that space, you're competing with some well-established local names like Locala and InMind Community Support Services.
All direct awards, so where are the open tenders?
This is where Calderdale's data gets interesting. Of the 5 contracts we've tracked with procurement method data, every single one was a direct award. The median contract value sits at £3.4 million, so these aren't small purchases being waved through. At the same time, 77 tenders worth £625 million have been published on Find a Tender, and 4 of the 5 contracts were above the procurement threshold. The picture here is incomplete, and we'd caution against reading too much into just 5 contracts. But it's a pattern worth watching. A council that routinely direct-awards above-threshold work may have strong preferences for known providers, or it may be using framework agreements that don't show up as open competitions in the data. Of the 87 total contracts on record, only 5 had method data attached, so there's clearly more to this story than what's currently visible.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CALDERDALE SCHOOLS LIMITED | £97,944,944 |
| 2 | SITA UK LIMITED | £58,859,863 |
| 3 | LOCALA COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS C.I.C. | £55,087,319 |
| 4 | AWM LIMITED | £50,653,959 |
| 5 | HALIFAX OPPORTUNITIES TRUST | £30,306,402 |
| 6 | SUEZ RECYCLING AND RECOVERY UK LTD | £29,308,923 |
| 7 | INMIND COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES LIMITED | £28,538,385 |
| 8 | NORTH HALIFAX PARTNERSHIP LIMITED | £26,778,990 |
| 9 | JOHN SISK & SON (HOLDINGS) LIMITED | £24,483,427 |
| 10 | HUMANKIND (HK) | £21,340,655 |
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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.
