Free Guide: Greenwich Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Royal Borough of Greenwich · London borough · London
Data covering 2010 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£774.6m
Transactions
592,239
Suppliers
5,086
Key Takeaways
- £775 million in recorded spend across 592,239 transactions since 2010
- 5,086 identified suppliers with an unconcentrated market at HHI 187
- 7 of 12 published contracts awarded directly, not through open tender
Three quarters of a billion in recorded spend. What does that tell you?
Greenwich is a large buyer. Our dataset covers £775 million in recorded spend across 592,239 transactions, drawn from 50 source files spanning 2010 to 2026. That is a long and deep spending history for a London borough of 289,000 people packed into 18.1 square miles. On the contracts side, we've tracked 49 published contracts worth a combined £7.3 million, which looks modest against the transaction volume. The tender pipeline tells a different story: 96 tenders with a combined value of £449 million. That gap between contract value and tender value suggests much of the council's formal procurement is large-scale and project-driven. Greenwich is also a full member of the South East Consortium (SEC), which may route some procurement through framework agreements that sit outside the council's own contract register. If you're sizing up this borough as a prospect, the transaction data alone confirms it is an active, high-volume buyer.
Who's getting paid, and how spread out is the money?
With 5,086 identified suppliers across the spending records we hold, Greenwich spreads its money around. The HHI sits at just 187, which is very low, and the top five suppliers account for only 26.1% of recorded spend. DWF Law LLP leads at £181 million, followed by Greenwich Service Plus at £168 million and Greater London Authority Holdings at £137 million. Several top-ten names are closely tied to the borough itself or to GLA structures, which is worth bearing in mind when reading the concentration figures. Construction dominates sector spend at 19.9% (£545 million across 466 suppliers), with health and social work second at 13.2% (£362 million, 654 suppliers). Professional and technical services has the highest supplier count at 791, but only 4.2% of spend. That pattern points to lots of smaller-value professional services work. Administrative and support services pulls in £188 million across 554 suppliers, making it another busy category.
More direct awards than open tenders. Is this council hard to break into?
Of the 12 contracts with procurement method data, 7 were direct awards and only 5 went through open tender. That is a high direct award rate based on what we can see, though the sample is small enough that a few large frameworks could skew the picture. The median contract value sits at £350,263, with 10 of the 12 contracts above threshold. The tender pipeline is busier, with 96 notices worth £449 million, so there is clearly formal procurement activity happening at scale. But the contract-level data suggests that when Greenwich does publish contracts, it often already knows who it wants. The source data comes from Find a Tender and the council's own website, collected through to December 2025. For a borough spending at this volume, the relatively small number of published contracts may simply reflect how much procurement runs through frameworks or consortium routes like the SEC.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | DWF LAW LLP | £181,426,065 |
| 2 | GREENWICH SERVICE PLUS LIMITED | £167,981,876 |
| 3 | GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY HOLDINGS LIMITED | £136,701,560 |
| 4 | GREENWICH BSF SPV LIMITED | £129,163,558 |
| 5 | ASK (GREENWICH) LIMITED | £99,071,680 |
| 6 | DURKAN LIMITED | £86,146,082 |
| 7 | GREENWICH LEISURE LTD | £60,703,100 |
| 8 | MORGAN SINDALL LIMITED | £53,419,552 |
| 9 | VEOLIA ES (UK) LIMITED | £45,364,532 |
| 10 | MANPOWER UK LIMITED | £44,302,481 |
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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.
