Free Guide: Cotswold Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Cotswold District Council · Non-metropolitan district · South West
Data covering 2013 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£241.5m
Transactions
65,699
Suppliers
1,657
Key Takeaways
- £241 million in recorded spend across 65,699 transactions since 2013
- 1,657 identified suppliers but one dominates with 33% of tracked spend
- 9 tenders worth £1.5 million show a light formal procurement pipeline
How big a buyer is Cotswold?
Bigger than you might expect for a rural district of 90,000 people. Our data covers £241 million in recorded spend across 65,699 transactions, drawn from 187 source files spanning 2013 to 2026. That works out to roughly £18-19 million a year on average, though the actual distribution will vary. Cotswold is a non-metropolitan district in Gloucestershire covering nearly 450 square miles, so the spending profile leans towards services you would associate with a semi-rural authority: waste collection, leisure, facilities management, and professional services. We have matched 1,663 suppliers against Companies House records across this dataset. For a district council without a combined authority sitting above it, the volume of transactions is steady. You are looking at a council that buys regularly, even if individual transactions tend to be modest in size.
One supplier towers over the rest
Publica Group (Support) Limited accounts for £81.3 million of the spend we have tracked, around 33% of the total. That is the shared services company that runs back-office functions for Cotswold and several neighbouring councils. It is not a supplier you are going to displace through competitive tendering. Strip Publica out and the picture changes. Dennis Eagle (£3.5 million), Gloucestershire County Cricket Club (£3.4 million), and Sports and Leisure Management (£2.5 million) fill the next slots. The top five suppliers account for 59.9% of recorded spend, and the HHI sits at 2,789, which is highly concentrated. But that concentration is almost entirely driven by the Publica arrangement. Beyond the top ten, spend spreads across construction (131 suppliers, £12.3 million), manufacturing (132 suppliers, £11 million), and IT (157 suppliers, £8 million). If you're looking past the shared services block, the supplier base is actually quite fragmented.
Where are the formal tenders?
The formal procurement picture looks different from the payment data. Our data holds 8 published contracts with no recorded contract values and 9 tenders worth a combined £1.5 million. There is no method distribution data in the procurement records we hold, so we cannot break down how much goes through open competition versus direct award. That does not mean Cotswold is not tendering. District councils often publish procurement activity through county-level portals or shared platforms, and the Publica arrangement may route some procurement through different channels. The tenders we have tracked come from cotswold.gov.uk and Find a Tender Service. For bid managers, most of the spending activity shows up in transaction-level payment data rather than structured contract notices. If you are tracking opportunities here, monitoring both Cotswold and Publica's procurement channels would give you a more complete picture of what is coming to market.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | PUBLICA GROUP ( SUPPORT) LIMITED | £81,338,362 |
| 2 | DENNIS EAGLE LIMITED | £3,467,603 |
| 3 | GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB LIMITED | £3,355,692 |
| 4 | SPORTS AND LEISURE MANAGEMENT LTD | £2,474,487 |
| 5 | CWS ENGINEERING LIMITED | £2,056,923 |
| 6 | CIVICA UK LIMITED | £1,982,160 |
| 7 | HEALTHMATIC LIMITED | £1,492,756 |
| 8 | WEALDEN LEISURE LIMITED | £1,278,249 |
| 9 | AMERESCO LIMITED | £1,222,930 |
| 10 | DANFO (UK) LIMITED | £1,072,406 |
About Us
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.
