Free Guide: Hartlepool Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Hartlepool Borough Council · Unitary authority · North East
Data covering 2022 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£322.3m
Transactions
43,044
Suppliers
1,415
Key Takeaways
- £322 million in recorded spend across 43,044 transactions from 2022 to 2026
- 33.5% of matched spend goes to health and social care suppliers, the dominant sector by far
- 139 HHI score across 1,415 identified suppliers points to a wide-open, unconcentrated market
How much is Hartlepool actually spending?
For a unitary authority covering just 36.3 square miles and 94,000 residents, Hartlepool moves a decent amount of money. Our data tracks £322 million in recorded spend across 43,044 transactions from 2022 to 2026, drawn from 10 source files including the council's own site, Procontract, and Find a Tender. We've matched 2,530 suppliers to Companies House records from that dataset. On the contracts side, 56 contract notices appear in the spending data worth a combined £2.3 million, while the structured procurement dataset contains three fully detailed contracts. Separately, 76 tenders valued at £8.5 million are on record. The median contract value sits at £58,775, so if you're looking at Hartlepool, expect a mix of smaller operational contracts rather than blockbuster capital deals. The transaction volume is steady and the data runs right up to late 2025, giving a reasonably current picture of buying activity.
Health and social care dominates, but the field is wide open
A third of all matched spend, around £91.7 million, flows to health and social care providers. That is the single biggest sector by a long way. Construction follows at 12.6%, then education at 10.5% and IT at 8.1%. Three of the top ten suppliers are care providers: West Melton Lodge Care Home, Lindisfarne Care Home, and Real Life Options, pulling in roughly £20 million between them. But here is the thing. Despite that concentration at the top of the sector list, the overall market is genuinely unconcentrated. An HHI of 139 is very low. The top five suppliers account for just 17.9% of recorded spend, and the top ten for 28.6%. Across 1,415 identified suppliers, the spend is spread thin. Wates Construction leads at £15.8 million, followed by EDF Energy at £9.8 million. No single supplier dominates the council's buying.
Three published contracts and a lot of direct awards
Hartlepool's procurement dataset shows three published contracts, of which two were direct awards and one went through open competition. That two-to-one ratio toward direct awards is something to keep in mind when assessing how accessible this council's work really is. The tender pipeline tells a fuller story, with 76 tenders worth £8.5 million on record. One contract sat above the procurement threshold, two below it. The median value of £58,775 puts most of these firmly in the smaller end of local government contracting. If you're a supplier in health and social care, the sheer volume of transactions, over 43,000, suggests a lot of ongoing, repeat purchasing rather than large one-off procurements. The question for anyone watching this council is whether the tender pipeline will keep growing as more data gets published.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | WATES CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £15,826,009 |
| 2 | EDF ENERGY LIMITED | £9,772,042 |
| 3 | NEC SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED | £8,356,208 |
| 4 | WEST MELTON LODGE CARE HOME LTD | £7,860,107 |
| 5 | EXTOL ACADEMY TRUST | £7,189,259 |
| 6 | SUEZ RECYCLING AND RECOVERY UK LTD | £6,520,728 |
| 7 | LINDISFARNE CARE HOME LIMITED | £6,090,567 |
| 8 | REAL LIFE OPTIONS | £6,029,534 |
| 9 | UKROED LIMITED | £5,513,137 |
| 10 | NU DIMENSIONS LIMITED | £5,015,020 |
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