Free Guide: Chorley Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Chorley Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · North West
Data covering 2013 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£300.8m
Transactions
15,244
Suppliers
871
Key Takeaways
- £300.8 million in recorded spend across 15,244 transactions from 2013 to 2026
- 80.8% of matched spend flows to health and social work suppliers
- 871 identified suppliers but an HHI of 6,506 showing heavy concentration
How big a buyer is Chorley?
Chorley is a borough council covering 78.4 square miles in Lancashire with a population of around 118,900. Our dataset holds £300.8 million in recorded spend across 15,244 transactions, drawn from 37 source files spanning 2013 to 2026. For a non-metropolitan district, that is a sizeable volume of purchasing activity. We have matched 888 suppliers to company records across those transactions, giving you a solid base to work with when sizing up the market. On the contracts side, we hold 17 published contracts worth a combined £39,000 and 27 tenders valued at roughly £1.2 million. The bulk of what we can see here is payment-level data rather than formal contract notices, which is common for district councils that route larger procurements through county-level frameworks. If you are looking at Chorley, the transaction data is where the real picture sits.
One supplier dominates everything
Lancashire County Care Ltd accounts for nearly £148 million of the recorded spend we hold, which is roughly half the total. That single relationship pushes the HHI to 6,506, making this a highly concentrated market. The top five suppliers account for 86.2% of matched spend, and the top ten take 88.7%, so there is very little daylight between those two figures. Health and social work activities absorb 80.8% of all matched spend, almost entirely driven by that top supplier. After that, the picture fragments quickly. Veolia ES sits second at £5.2 million, followed by FCC Environment Services at £1.9 million and Kerax at £1.8 million. Construction has 76 identified suppliers but only 2.3% of spend. Professional and technical services have the most suppliers at 122, yet just 1.6% of spend. Outside health, this looks like a market of many small engagements spread thinly.
Where are the tender opportunities?
Procurement data here is thin on formal contract notices. We hold just one published contract in our procurement records, and it was a direct award valued at £39,000, below the public procurement threshold. The 27 tenders we have tracked carry a combined value of around £1.2 million, so there is some pipeline activity coming through Find a Tender. But the contrast with £300.8 million in transaction spend tells you that most purchasing at Chorley happens outside formal advertised processes, at least based on what we can see. That is not unusual for a district council of this size, where framework call-offs and shared service arrangements with Lancashire County Council likely account for a large share of spending. If you are scanning for open competition, the tender pipeline exists but it is modest. The median contract value sits at £39,000, which points to smaller, operationally focused work rather than major capital programmes.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LANCASHIRE COUNTY CARE LTD | £147,997,176 |
| 2 | VEOLIA ES (UK) LIMITED | £5,201,350 |
| 3 | FCC ENVIRONMENT SERVICES (UK) LIMITED | £1,869,755 |
| 4 | KERAX LIMITED | £1,775,000 |
| 5 | NPOWER COMMERCIAL GAS LIMITED | £1,492,485 |
| 6 | CORONA ENERGY RETAIL 2 LIMITED | £1,177,376 |
| 7 | THE ENVIRONMENT & SAFETY AGENCY LTD | £1,006,070 |
| 8 | FCC RECYCLING (UK) LIMITED | £866,560 |
| 9 | S.E DESIGN AND BUILD LTD | £844,037 |
| 10 | ROBERTSON D LIMITED | £726,954 |
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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.
