Free Guide: Fareham Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Fareham Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · South East
Data covering 2012 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£1.5bn
Transactions
117,966
Suppliers
2,061
Key Takeaways
- £1.47 billion in recorded spend across nearly 118,000 transactions since 2012
- 72% of matched spend goes to transportation and storage suppliers
- 2,061 identified suppliers but an HHI of 5,100 shows heavy concentration
£1.47 billion from a borough of 116,000 people?
That number jumps out. Fareham is a compact borough council covering 28.6 square miles in Hampshire, yet our data shows £1.47 billion in recorded spend across 117,966 transactions stretching from 2012 to 2026. For a non-metropolitan district of this size, that volume of payment records is worth a closer look. The dataset is drawn from 381 source files collected from procontract.due-north.com, fareham.gov.uk, and Find a Tender, with the latest collection in December 2025. We've matched 2,161 suppliers against Companies House records. On the contracts side, the picture is thinner: just 8 published contracts with no stated values, and 25 tenders worth a combined £3.68 million. The gap between the transaction-level spend and the formal contract register is wide, which means the payment data is doing most of the heavy lifting here.
One supplier dominates everything
Hampshire County Cars Limited accounts for £621 million of matched spend, which is roughly 42% of the total on its own. That single supplier is the main reason the HHI sits at 5,100, firmly in "highly concentrated" territory. The top five identified suppliers together account for 78.2% of recorded spend, and the top ten push that to 82.5%. Beyond that dominant position, construction firms feature heavily. Neilcott Construction, Balfour Beatty Regional Construction, Mildren Construction, and Morgan Sindall all appear in the top ten. Transportation and storage takes 72.2% of sectoral spend across 39 suppliers, while construction accounts for 8.8% spread across 206 suppliers. Professional services firms like Davitt Jones Bould (£20.9 million) and legal practices like Penningtons Manches Cooper (£8.4 million) also feature. If you strip out the Hampshire County Cars spend, the underlying supplier base looks more varied than the headline concentration suggests.
Where are the published contracts?
This is the puzzle with Fareham. There are only 8 contracts on record with no values attached, and 25 tenders worth £3.68 million. No procurement method breakdown is available in our data, so we can't tell you the split between open tender and direct award. That's a gap worth noting. The tender pipeline at £3.68 million looks modest against the scale of payment data, which suggests either that most procurement activity sits below formal publication thresholds, or that Fareham routes work through frameworks and shared arrangements that don't show up in their individual contract register. There's no consortium membership recorded in our dataset. For a bid manager, the 117,966 transactions tell a richer story than the contract register does. Most of the identifiable opportunity sits in construction, professional services, and admin support, where spend is distributed across hundreds of suppliers rather than concentrated in one.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HAMPSHIRE COUNTY CARS LIMITED | £621,404,140 |
| 2 | DAVITT JONES BOULD LIMITED | £20,925,703 |
| 3 | NEILCOTT CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £16,741,769 |
| 4 | MOUNTJOY LTD | £14,257,067 |
| 5 | BALFOUR BEATTY REGIONAL CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £8,758,508 |
| 6 | PENNINGTONS MANCHES COOPER LLP | £8,400,000 |
| 7 | A R B PROPERTY SERVICES LTD | £7,675,268 |
| 8 | MILDREN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £7,616,640 |
| 9 | MORGAN SINDALL CONSTRUCTION & INFRASTRUCTURE LTD | £7,158,556 |
| 10 | IRWIN MITCHELL LIMITED | £6,619,197 |
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