Free Guide: East Devon Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for East Devon District Council · Non-metropolitan district · South West
Data covering 2012 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£527.3m
Transactions
97,325
Suppliers
1,492
Key Takeaways
- £527 million in recorded spend across 97,325 transactions since 2012
- Construction firms take 39% of matched spend, with seven in the top ten suppliers
- 15 tenders worth £83 million signal active pipeline despite few published contracts
Half a billion in recorded spend from a district council?
East Devon is a non-metropolitan district covering 314 square miles of Devon with a population of around 148,000. For a council of that size, the spending data is striking. Our dataset holds £527 million across 97,325 transactions, drawn from 36 source files spanning 2012 to 2026. That is a long, detailed payment history. We have matched 2,338 suppliers from those records, with 1,492 unique identified suppliers in total. The data comes from eastdevon.gov.uk and Find a Tender, collected through to December 2025. East Devon is also a full member of Advantage South West and has access to the LHC Procurement Group, so some of its buying may route through framework agreements that sit outside its own published contracts. If you are tracking this council, the payment-level data gives you a solid foundation to work from.
Construction dominates, but one waste contract towers over everything
The top supplier by a wide margin is Suez Recycling and Recovery UK, with £143.6 million in recorded spend. That single supplier accounts for more than a quarter of all matched spending. Behind Suez, construction firms fill most of the top ten. Ian Williams sits at £77.3 million, followed by Strata Service Solutions (the shared IT company for Devon councils) at £63.5 million. Skinner Construction, Midford Building Services, D R Jones Yeovil, B2 Building Services, Liberty Gas Group, and Robert Heath Heating all feature, pushing construction's share to 39.2% of matched spend across 164 suppliers. Waste management takes 25%, and IT accounts for 11.7%. The HHI score is 907, which is unconcentrated, but the top five suppliers still hold 56.6% of recorded spend. So while no single firm locks the market out, a handful of established players are pulling in most of the money.
Where are all the published contracts?
This is where it gets interesting. East Devon's formal contract register shows 5 published contracts worth a combined £170,000 in our data. But the tender pipeline tells a different story: 15 tenders with a combined value of £83 million. The single contract we hold procurement method data for went through open competition. Of those 15 tenders, the values suggest some large pieces of work have gone to market, likely in waste, construction, or IT given the spending patterns. For bid managers, the gap between what is visible in formal contract notices and what flows through payment records is worth understanding. East Devon's membership of Advantage South West and LHC also means some procurement may happen through frameworks rather than standalone tenders published on the council's own portal. The tender data, rather than the contract register, looks like the better signal of upcoming opportunities here.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SUEZ RECYCLING AND RECOVERY UK LTD | £143,641,701 |
| 2 | IAN WILLIAMS LIMITED | £77,333,101 |
| 3 | STRATA SERVICE SOLUTIONS LTD. | £63,466,036 |
| 4 | SKINNER CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £36,671,369 |
| 5 | MIDFORD BUILDING SERVICES LIMITED | £24,196,960 |
| 6 | D R JONES YEOVIL LTD. | £12,759,771 |
| 7 | B2 BUILDING SERVICES LTD | £12,631,217 |
| 8 | LIBERTY GAS GROUP LIMITED | £10,824,340 |
| 9 | ROBERT HEATH HEATING LIMITED | £10,524,965 |
| 10 | GOWER COMMUNITY LEISURE LTD | £10,270,116 |
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