Free Guide: Mid Sussex Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Mid Sussex District Council · Non-metropolitan district · South East
Data covering 2020 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£133.6m
Transactions
26,078
Suppliers
628
Key Takeaways
- £133.6 million in recorded spend across 26,078 transactions from 2020 to 2026
- 632 matched suppliers with Serco alone accounting for 20% of tracked spend
- 14 tenders worth £127.5 million point to large-scale procurement activity
A district council spending like a much bigger buyer?
Mid Sussex is a non-metropolitan district in West Sussex with a population of around 152,000, covering 129 square miles. But the spending data tells an interesting story. Our dataset covers £133.6 million in recorded spend across 26,078 transactions, drawn from seven source files spanning 2020 to 2026. For a district council, that is a busy purchasing operation. The data comes from both Find a Tender and the council's own site, giving us a reasonable spread of procurement activity. On the tender side, we've tracked 14 tenders with a combined value of £127.5 million, and 6 published contracts. Those tender values suggest some large, long-duration deals are going through this council. If you're looking at Mid Sussex as a potential market, the volume of transactional spend alone makes it worth a closer look.
Serco dominates, but the supplier base is wider than you'd expect
Across the spending records we hold, 632 suppliers have been matched to company records. Serco Limited sits firmly at the top with £26.6 million in tracked spend, roughly 20% of the total. That is a big chunk for one supplier. After Serco, the numbers drop sharply: Balfour Beatty at £7 million, Southern Water Services at £4.7 million, then Places for People Leisure and Glendale Countryside each around £3.2 million. The top five account for 53.4% of recorded spend, and the top ten for 62%. The HHI sits at 1,173, which is unconcentrated despite Serco's dominance. Professional and technical services take 36.4% of spend across 113 identified suppliers, followed by admin support at 14% and construction at 13.4%. IT and comms accounts for nearly 10%. The spread across 628 unique suppliers and 21 sectors suggests the council buys broadly, even if the headline numbers are shaped by a few large relationships.
What does the tender pipeline actually look like?
The 6 contracts in our records don't carry method classification or value data, so we can't break down the split between open competition and direct awards from contract records alone. What we do have is 14 tenders worth £127.5 million in aggregate. That average value, over £9 million per tender, points to chunky, multi-year deals rather than high-volume smaller procurements. The transactional data paints a different picture: 26,078 individual payment records suggest plenty of day-to-day purchasing flowing through the council. The contrast between a small number of large formal tenders and a high volume of transactions is a pattern you often see with district councils, where big outsourced contracts sit alongside routine operational buying. For anyone tracking upcoming opportunities, keeping an eye on the tender pipeline is where the larger contract values are likely to surface.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SERCO LIMITED | £26,571,071 |
| 2 | BALFOUR BEATTY CONSTRUCTION (SW) LIMITED | £7,041,349 |
| 3 | SOUTHERN WATER SERVICES LIMITED | £4,667,999 |
| 4 | PLACES FOR PEOPLE LEISURE MANAGEMENT LTD. | £3,188,528 |
| 5 | GLENDALE COUNTRYSIDE LIMITED | £3,164,518 |
| 6 | IDVERDE LIMITED | £2,442,890 |
| 7 | PENNA PLC | £1,407,846 |
| 8 | WESSEX HOUSING ASSOCIATION LIMITED | £1,146,077 |
| 9 | CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LTD | £1,097,292 |
| 10 | TRIOS FACILITIES LIMITED | £1,070,732 |
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