Free Guide: Kingston upon Thames Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames · London borough · London
Data covering 2010 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£1.4bn
Transactions
169,051
Suppliers
1,785
Key Takeaways
- £1.35 billion in recorded spend across 169,051 transactions since 2010
- 1,854 matched suppliers with an unconcentrated market at HHI 205
- 93 tenders worth £659 million signal an active procurement pipeline
£1.35 billion over 16 years: what does that tell you?
Kingston upon Thames is a compact London borough, just 14.3 square miles and around 179,000 residents, but it buys like a much larger authority. Our dataset covers £1.35 billion in recorded spend across 169,051 transactions, drawn from 60 source files spanning 2010 to 2026. That works out at roughly £84 million a year on average, though annual figures will vary. We've matched 1,854 suppliers against Companies House records, giving decent visibility into who's getting paid. For a borough of this size, the transaction volume is striking. It points to a council that processes a high volume of smaller payments alongside its bigger contracts. And with 93 tenders worth a combined £659 million published in the records we hold, there's clearly a pipeline of formal procurement running alongside the day-to-day spend. If you're scoping this council, there's a reasonable body of data to work with.
Who's taking the biggest share of Kingston's spend?
The top five identified suppliers account for 25.5% of matched spend, and the top ten for 36.8%. With an HHI of 205, this is an unconcentrated market. Spend is spread across a wide supplier base rather than locked up with a handful of incumbents. Cambridge Road (RBK) LLP sits at the top with £41.3 million, followed by London Borough of Croydon Holdings LLP at £39 million. Both look like special-purpose vehicles rather than commercial suppliers you'd compete against. Construction firms feature heavily: Axis Europe (£25.1 million), Morgan Sindall (£16.3 million), and Countryside Properties (£11.7 million) all appear in the top ten. By sector, health and social work takes 18.5% of matched spend across 282 suppliers, while construction accounts for 12.8% across 88. Education (9.6%) and admin services (9.7%) are closely matched. Kingston is also a member of the Fusion21 purchasing consortium, which is worth noting if you're in construction or facilities management.
How open is the front door?
Contract-level procurement data for Kingston is limited in what we hold. We've tracked 88 published contracts and 93 tenders, but the contract records don't include value breakdowns or method classifications in the data available to us. So we can't give you a clean split between open tenders and direct awards here. What we can say is that the 93 tenders carry a combined value of £659 million, which suggests the council does run formal competitions for its larger requirements. The tender pipeline is active and the values are sizeable. Matrix SCM sitting at number four with £23.9 million in spend also tells you something: agency and staffing contracts are a real spending category here. With 169,051 individual transactions in the dataset, a large portion of Kingston's spending clearly happens below formal contract thresholds. That high transaction count relative to the contract count is a pattern worth keeping in mind when you're assessing how this council actually routes its money.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CAMBRIDGE ROAD (RBK) LLP | £41,347,550 |
| 2 | LONDON BOROUGH OF CROYDON HOLDINGS LLP | £39,024,886 |
| 3 | AXIS EUROPE LIMITED | £25,144,832 |
| 4 | MATRIX SCM LIMITED | £23,949,294 |
| 5 | MORGAN SINDALL CONSTRUCTION & INFRASTRUCTURE LTD | £16,281,792 |
| 6 | TRANSPORT TRADING LIMITED | £15,316,369 |
| 7 | NSL LIMITED | £14,836,780 |
| 8 | INTEGRATED HEALTH LIMITED | £11,884,894 |
| 9 | COUNTRYSIDE PROPERTIES (UK) LIMITED | £11,691,615 |
| 10 | BRACEBRIDGE INFANT AND NURSERY SCHOOL LTD | £11,123,513 |
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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.
