Free Guide: Maldon Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Maldon District Council · Non-metropolitan district · East of England
Data covering 2024 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£12.5m
Transactions
1,773
Suppliers
247
Key Takeaways
- £12.5 million recorded spend across 1,773 transactions from 2024 to 2026
- £4.2 million, or 34% of matched spend, goes to one waste management supplier
- 251 matched suppliers across 20 sectors serving a district of 65,400 people
How much does a small Essex district actually spend?
Maldon is a rural district council covering 138 square miles of Essex coastline with a population of around 65,400. It is not a big buyer by any measure, but our data shows £12.5 million in recorded spend across 1,773 transactions from 2024 to 2026. That works out to roughly £7,000 per transaction on average, which tells you most of the payment activity here is routine and operational. We have matched 251 suppliers to Companies House records across those transactions, spread over 20 different sector classifications. The data is drawn from 12 source files collected from maldon.gov.uk and Find a Tender, with the most recent collection in October 2025. For a non-metropolitan district of this size, the spending profile is dominated by a handful of large service contracts sitting on top of a long tail of smaller payments. If you are looking at Maldon, you are probably targeting one or two specific contract areas rather than broad volume.
One supplier takes a third of the pot
Suez Recycling and Recovery UK Ltd dominates what we can see of Maldon's spending, pulling in £4.2 million of the £12.5 million total. That is 34% of recorded spend going to a single waste management provider. The HHI sits at 1,858, which is moderately concentrated, and the top five identified suppliers account for 62.2% of spend between them. After Suez, the next largest recipients are BG Appleton Contracts (£925,000, professional services), Kompan Limited (£526,000, construction), and Matrix SCM (£464,000, admin and support). Waste management as a sector takes 42.4% of all matched spend, but only seven suppliers operate in that space. Professional and technical services is the broadest category with 42 suppliers sharing 13.2% of spend, followed by admin and support services at 11.5% with 29 suppliers. Construction accounts for 8.9%. The concentration at the top is driven almost entirely by that single waste contract.
What does the tender pipeline look like?
Our data holds 4 tenders for Maldon with a combined value of £6.6 million and 6 published contracts, though the contracts carry no recorded value in our dataset. Procurement method breakdowns are not available in the contract data we hold for this council, so we cannot tell you the split between open competition and direct awards. What we can say is that the tender activity on Find a Tender points to larger, above-threshold procurements, while the bulk of day-to-day spending flows through smaller transactions. The average transaction value of around £7,000 suggests most purchasing falls well below public procurement thresholds. With 247 unique suppliers across 1,773 transactions, there is a reasonable spread of vendors in the payment data even if the top end is concentrated. For anyone tracking upcoming opportunities, the tender pipeline on Find a Tender is where the larger contracts surface. The payment data gives you a clearer picture of who is already doing business with the council.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SUEZ RECYCLING AND RECOVERY UK LTD | £4,249,612 |
| 2 | BG APPLETON CONTRACTS LTD | £925,448 |
| 3 | KOMPAN LIMITED | £526,235 |
| 4 | MATRIX SCM LIMITED | £464,352 |
| 5 | ESSEX COUNTY CARS LTD | £249,057 |
| 6 | ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER & CO. | £185,589 |
| 7 | CIVICA ELECTION SERVICES LIMITED | £179,173 |
| 8 | HAYS SPECIALIST RECRUITMENT LIMITED | £174,307 |
| 9 | EDF ENERGY LIMITED | £168,914 |
| 10 | INSIGHT DIRECT (UK) LTD | £148,986 |
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