Free Guide: Crawley Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Crawley Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · South East
Data covering 2014 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£506.4m
Transactions
37,533
Suppliers
2,033
Key Takeaways
- £506 million in recorded spend across 37,533 transactions from 2014 to 2026
- 2,116 matched suppliers identified, with the top five accounting for 53.9% of spend
- 38 tenders worth £31.8 million tracked, spanning property, waste and construction services
Half a billion in recorded spend from a compact borough council?
Crawley is a non-metropolitan district in West Sussex with a population of around 112,500, covering just 17.4 square miles. But the spending data tells a bigger story than the council's size might suggest. Our dataset covers £506 million across 37,533 transactions, drawn from 22 source files and spanning 2014 to 2026. That is a meaningful volume for a borough council. The data comes from crawley.gov.uk, its democracy portal, and Find a Tender, collected up to January 2026. On the contracts side, we hold 1 published contract valued at £83,000, alongside 38 tenders valued at £31.8 million. The transaction-level spend records are where the real depth sits. If you are sizing up Crawley as a prospect, those 37,533 payment records give you a much fuller picture of who gets paid, how often, and how much.
Mears and Wates dominate, but the supplier base is wider than you'd expect
Across the spending records we hold, 2,116 suppliers have been matched to company records. Mears Limited tops the list with £80.3 million in recorded spend, followed by Wates Property Services at £58.9 million. Westrock Crawley DM Limited, a real estate firm, sits third at £43.3 million. Together the top five suppliers account for 53.9% of matched spend, and the top ten take 65.9%. The HHI score is 810, which is unconcentrated. So while a few large contractors pull in the biggest sums, there is a long tail of over 2,000 identified suppliers picking up the rest. By sector, administrative and support services lead at 27.7% of spend, with other service activities at 17.0% and real estate at 15.0%. Construction accounts for 14.0%, spread across 141 suppliers. Wholesale and retail trade has the highest supplier count at 361 but captures just 1.7% of spend.
Where are the open tenders?
This is where it gets interesting. Of the contracts in our procurement data, we have a single published contract record, and it was awarded through an open process with a value of £83,000. The formal contract record captures just one published award, so the tender pipeline and transaction-level data carry more weight here. We track 38 tenders worth a combined £31.8 million, which gives you a better sense of what Crawley is bringing to market through formal procurement routes. The spending patterns themselves point to heavy reliance on a core group of contractors for property maintenance and housing-related services. Mears, Wates, and Westrock together account for over £182 million in recorded payments. Biffa Municipal holds the waste management relationship at nearly £18 million. Construction firms like Persimmon Homes, Liberty Gas Group, and Taylor Wimpey also feature in the top ten. For a borough of this size, the concentration around housing and property services is the clearest pattern in the data.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MEARS LIMITED | £80,304,160 |
| 2 | WATES PROPERTY SERVICES LIMITED | £58,885,146 |
| 3 | WESTROCK CRAWLEY DM LIMITED | £43,288,881 |
| 4 | BIFFA MUNICIPAL LIMITED | £17,961,042 |
| 5 | PERSIMMON HOMES LIMITED | £16,896,595 |
| 6 | BELLTONE LIMITED | £14,901,037 |
| 7 | RPS HOUSING LIMITED | £10,912,725 |
| 8 | LIBERTY GAS GROUP LIMITED | £10,126,702 |
| 9 | MORGAN SINDALL LIMITED | £6,487,609 |
| 10 | TAYLOR WIMPEY UK LIMITED | £6,024,847 |
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