Free Guide: East Hertfordshire Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for East Hertfordshire District Council · Non-metropolitan district · East of England
Data covering 2016 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£88.2m
Transactions
15,662
Suppliers
855
Key Takeaways
- £88.2 million in recorded spend across 15,662 transactions spanning 2016 to 2026
- Construction accounts for 48.8% of matched supplier spend, with GPF Lewis PLC taking £13.9 million
- 20 tenders worth £50.7 million in the pipeline against 855 identified suppliers
How big a buyer is East Hertfordshire?
East Hertfordshire is a non-metropolitan district council covering 183.8 square miles in Hertfordshire, with a population of around 152,000. Our dataset covers £88.2 million in recorded spend across 15,662 transactions, drawn from 149 source files and spanning 2016 to 2026. For a district council, that is a decent volume of purchasing activity. We have matched 866 suppliers against Companies House records, giving you a solid view of where the money flows. The spending data comes from the council's own publications and Find a Tender notices, collected up to November 2025. There are 14 published contracts on file, though none carry a stated contract value. On the tender side, 20 notices are listed with a combined value of £50.7 million. That tender figure gives you a better sense of the forward pipeline and the scale of individual procurements this council runs.
Construction dominates, but who else is getting paid?
Construction is the clear heavyweight here. Across the spending records we hold, it accounts for 48.8% of matched spend, pulling in £20.5 million through 62 identified suppliers. GPF Lewis PLC sits at the top of the table with £13.9 million, followed by Cadman Construction at £3.0 million and LSI Projects at £903,000. Four of the top ten suppliers are construction firms. Beyond construction, administrative and support services take 12.7% (£5.3 million across 90 suppliers), with Matrix SCM the lead name at £2.7 million. Professional and technical services come in at 6.0%, spread across 168 suppliers, which is the widest supplier base of any sector. The HHI score is 1,233, which counts as unconcentrated, but the top five suppliers still command 52.6% of matched spend. So while the market is not locked up, a handful of firms are clearly well established.
What does the tender pipeline look like?
The procurement data here is a bit lopsided. We hold 14 contracts but no method distribution data, so there is no breakdown of open tenders versus direct awards or framework call-offs from the contracts register. That limits what we can say about how the council typically buys. What we do have is 20 published tenders worth a combined £50.7 million, sourced from Find a Tender. That averages out to around £2.5 million per tender, which is consistent with the kind of capital and service contracts you would expect from a district council running leisure, construction, and environmental programmes. With 855 identified suppliers in the dataset and spending spread across 21 sectors, there is breadth in the supplier base. Professional and technical services alone has 168 matched suppliers, and IT has 105. If you are looking at this council from outside construction, those sectors might be where the volume sits.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPF LEWIS PLC | £13,863,229 |
| 2 | CADMAN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £2,982,911 |
| 3 | MATRIX SCM LIMITED | £2,717,778 |
| 4 | ALLIANCE LEISURE SERVICES LIMITED | £1,458,434 |
| 5 | NORTH HERTFORDSHIRE AND DISTRICT CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU | £1,093,906 |
| 6 | NSL LIMITED | £961,753 |
| 7 | LSI PROJECTS LIMITED | £902,983 |
| 8 | GLENDALE COUNTRYSIDE LIMITED | £894,147 |
| 9 | PJM MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL LTD | £777,830 |
| 10 | OLD ENGLISH (FURNITURE) LIMITED | £727,500 |
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