Free Guide: High Peak Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for High Peak Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · East Midlands
Data covering 2019 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£816.6m
Transactions
15,267
Suppliers
569
Key Takeaways
- £816.6 million in recorded spend across 15,267 transactions since 2019
- 37% of matched spend goes to financial and insurance suppliers
- 576 identified suppliers with an unconcentrated HHI of 644
How much does a small borough council really spend?
More than you might expect. Our data covers £816.6 million in recorded spend across 15,267 transactions, drawn from 74 source files spanning 2019 to 2026. High Peak is a non-metropolitan district in Derbyshire with a population of around 92,600, covering 208 square miles of largely rural Peak District territory. For a borough council, that transaction volume is busy. The spending records we hold show consistent purchasing activity over seven years, which gives a reasonable window into how this council operates. On the tender side, we've tracked 13 tenders worth a combined £2 million. The council publishes through its own site and Find a Tender, and our dataset is built from both. If you're scoping this council as a prospect, the spend volume tells you there's real money flowing through here, even if the formal contract pipeline looks quieter.
Banks and builders: where does the money actually go?
Financial services dominate the matched spend. Of the 576 suppliers we've identified, 18 sit in the financial and insurance sector, yet they account for 37.1% of recorded spend, around £29.4 million. Handelsbanken tops the list at £15 million, with Standard Chartered and Santander also in the top ten. That clustering likely reflects treasury management and investment activity rather than traditional procurement. Strip that out and the picture shifts. Wholesale and retail trade takes 16.5% of spend (£13.1 million across 47 suppliers), followed by IT and comms at 9% and construction at 8.6%. Parkwood Leisure, NEC Software Solutions, and Galliford Try all feature in the top ten. Concentration is low, with an HHI of 644 and the top five suppliers taking 46.9% of spend. High Peak is also a member of the Fusion21 consortium, which opens routes into collaborative procurement frameworks.
Is there an open front door here?
The formal contract record is sparse. We hold one published contract for High Peak, with no recorded value, and the procurement method breakdown is empty. That doesn't mean the council isn't buying through formal routes. It means their contract register, as published, doesn't tell us much about method or value. The 13 tenders we've tracked are worth a combined £2 million, so formal competitions do appear, but at modest values. Most of the council's purchasing activity shows up in payment records rather than structured contract data. With 15,267 transactions across 569 suppliers, there's clearly a lot of operational buying happening. Professional and technical services account for 84 identified suppliers but only 2.5% of spend, suggesting lots of smaller engagements. If you're looking at this council, the payment data is where the real picture sits, not the contract register.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HANDELSBANKEN PLC | £15,000,000 |
| 2 | A & D PARKINSON LIMITED | £6,466,538 |
| 3 | NATIONWIDE BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD | £6,000,000 |
| 4 | STANDARD CHARTERED PLC | £5,000,000 |
| 5 | LYNX TREASURY SERVICES LIMITED | £4,708,250 |
| 6 | PARKWOOD LEISURE LIMITED | £2,937,878 |
| 7 | NEC SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS UK LIMITED | £2,902,780 |
| 8 | SANTANDER UK PLC | £2,500,000 |
| 9 | GALLIFORD TRY INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED | £2,390,246 |
| 10 | BARCLAYS BANK PLC | £2,324,715 |
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