Free Guide: Harrow Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for London Borough of Harrow · London borough · London
Data covering 2021 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£890.5m
Transactions
142,834
Suppliers
2,536
Key Takeaways
- £890 million in recorded spend across 142,834 transactions from 2021 to 2026
- 2,536 identified suppliers with an unconcentrated market, HHI of 270
- 129 tenders worth £547 million signal a sizeable forward pipeline
How big a buyer is Harrow?
Harrow is an outer London borough of around 252,000 people packed into 19.3 square miles, and it spends accordingly. Our data shows £890 million in recorded spend across 142,834 transactions, drawn from 21 source files and covering the period from 2021 to 2026. That works out at roughly £3,500 per resident over the dataset window, which gives you a sense of the throughput. On the contracts side, we've tracked 85 published contracts worth a combined £11.2 million. Tenders tell a bigger story: 129 notices with a combined value of £547 million. The data is sourced from Harrow's own site, Find a Tender, and their Procontract portal, with the latest collection from November 2025. For a London borough of this size, the transaction volume is steady and the tender pipeline looks active. If you're scoping Harrow as a prospect, there's enough activity here to justify a closer look.
Health and admin services dominate, but the field is wide open
Across the 2,536 suppliers we've identified, spending is spread remarkably thin. Harrow's HHI is just 270, which is very low. The top five suppliers account for 22.8% of matched spend, and even the top ten only reach 29.5%. No single supplier has a stranglehold here. Shubette Group of Companies leads at £66.3 million, followed by Higgins Partnerships at £10.2 million, both operating in admin services and construction respectively. Health and social work is the largest sector by spend at £115 million (25.9%), closely followed by administrative and support services at £108 million (24.3%). Education sits third at £60 million. Between them, those three sectors cover nearly two-thirds of the matched spend. But with 430 suppliers in health alone and 267 in education, these are busy, fragmented markets. Construction comes in at £34.5 million across 116 suppliers.
All four published contracts were direct awards. What does that tell you?
Here's where the procurement data gets interesting. Of the contracts where we have method data, Harrow recorded just four, and all four were direct awards. Every one sits above threshold, with a median contract value of around £1 million. That's a small sample, so it would be a stretch to call this a pattern. But it does mean that, based on what we can see in the published contract data, there's no open competition showing up in that particular dataset. The tender pipeline paints a different picture. With 129 tenders worth £547 million on record, competitive opportunities clearly do exist here. The gap between tender activity and published contract methods may simply reflect how Harrow reports its data across different platforms. If you're tracking this borough, the tender feed from Procontract and Find a Tender is where you'll find the action rather than the contracts register.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SHUBETTE GROUP OF COMPANIES LIMITED | £66,328,949 |
| 2 | HIGGINS PARTNERSHIPS 1961 PLC | £10,174,188 |
| 3 | NR LTD | £8,959,681 |
| 4 | PROVIDE CARE SOLUTIONS LIMITED | £8,700,000 |
| 5 | MMCG (2) LIMITED | £7,229,154 |
| 6 | QUALITY OF LIFE HOMECARE LIMITED | £6,768,362 |
| 7 | HARROW COMMUNITY SCHOOLS PFI LTD | £6,315,694 |
| 8 | WEMBLEY HIRE LIMITED | £5,725,582 |
| 9 | TRANSPORT TRADING LIMITED | £5,557,429 |
| 10 | ACORN CARE & EDUCATION (OPS) LTD | £5,143,217 |
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