Free Guide: Charnwood Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Charnwood Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · East Midlands
Data covering 2011 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£490.4m
Transactions
61,898
Suppliers
1,578
Key Takeaways
- £490 million in recorded spend across nearly 62,000 transactions since 2011
- 1,578 identified suppliers with an unconcentrated market and HHI of 471
- Construction and IT together account for over half of matched spend
Half a billion in recorded spend, and 15 years of data to dig into
Charnwood Borough Council is a non-metropolitan district in Leicestershire with a population of around 188,000 spread across 108 square miles. As a buyer, the spending records we hold paint a detailed picture. Our dataset covers £490 million across nearly 62,000 transactions, drawn from 66 source files and spanning 2011 to 2026. That is a long and granular run of payment data for a borough council of this size. We have matched 1,585 suppliers to Companies House records, giving you a solid base for competitor and market analysis. The data comes from Charnwood's own transparency registers and Find a Tender, collected through to December 2025. There are 3 tenders in the pipeline worth a combined £44.5 million, but no published contract records in our dataset. So the spend-per-transaction data here is built entirely from payment records rather than contract notices.
Construction and IT dominate, but the supplier base is wide open
Construction is the biggest sector in the matched data, pulling in £55.2 million or 29.3% of recorded spend across 185 identified suppliers. Information and communication follows at £41.1 million (21.8%), though much of that is concentrated in a single supplier. Capita Business Services tops the list at £32 million, and that one relationship accounts for most of the IT sector total. After those two sectors, admin and support services (£25 million) and professional and technical services (£20.1 million) round out the top four. Between them, these four categories represent about 75% of matched spend. The top five suppliers account for 38.6% of spend, and the top ten for 51.4%. But with an HHI of 471, the overall market is unconcentrated. Below Capita, spend is spread fairly evenly. Wates Construction sits second at £14.6 million, with Matrix SCM, Fortem Solutions, and Quadron Services each in the £7.5 to £10.5 million range.
Where are the contract notices?
Here is something that will catch your eye if you are tracking procurement routes: our dataset holds no published contract records for Charnwood. The spending picture is built from payment transaction data, not from contract or award notices. This means we cannot break down procurement methods, assess the split between open tender and direct award, or profile typical contract sizes. What we do have on the forward-looking side is 3 tenders worth £44.5 million, sourced from Find a Tender. For a borough council, that is a chunky pipeline. The tender feed is the most useful forward-looking data we hold for Charnwood. The payment data still tells you a lot about who this council works with and how spend is distributed. You can see which suppliers have maintained long relationships across the 15-year window, and which sectors are drawing the most consistent expenditure. But the procurement route question remains unanswered in the current data.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LTD | £32,015,942 |
| 2 | WATES CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £14,570,714 |
| 3 | MATRIX SCM LIMITED | £10,533,472 |
| 4 | FORTEM SOLUTIONS LIMITED | £8,018,991 |
| 5 | QUADRON SERVICES LIMITED | £7,572,506 |
| 6 | KEEPMOAT LIMITED | £6,675,779 |
| 7 | JEAKINS WEIR LIMITED | £5,665,275 |
| 8 | DENNIS EAGLE LIMITED | £4,760,823 |
| 9 | BRITISH GAS SOCIAL HOUSING LIMITED | £4,055,737 |
| 10 | PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED | £2,886,018 |
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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.
