Free Guide: North Tyneside Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for North Tyneside Council · Metropolitan district · North East
Data covering 2022 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£1.6bn
Transactions
698,877
Suppliers
2,366
Key Takeaways
- £1.6 billion in recorded spend across nearly 700,000 transactions since 2022
- 2,366 identified suppliers with an unconcentrated market at HHI 480
- 5 out of 6 published contracts awarded directly, not through open tender
£1.6 billion and counting: how big a buyer is North Tyneside?
North Tyneside is a metropolitan district of about 209,000 people covering 31.7 square miles on the north bank of the Tyne. For a council that size, the spending volumes are hefty. Our data covers £1.63 billion in recorded spend across 698,877 payment transactions, drawn from 46 source files published between 2022 and 2026. That works out to roughly £7,800 per resident in recorded payments over the period. On the contracts side, the picture is thinner. We've tracked 66 published contracts worth a combined £11.6 million, alongside 83 tenders with a stated value of £233 million. The gap between those two numbers is worth noting. It suggests a large volume of procurement activity flows through tender notices that don't always surface as matched contracts in the published data. For bid managers, the payment transaction data gives you the fuller picture of where money actually lands.
Who's getting paid, and how spread out is it?
Across the 2,366 identified suppliers in our dataset, spending is fairly dispersed. The HHI sits at 480, which is low, and the top five suppliers account for 38.9% of matched spend. That top five is an unusual mix. The Association of Police and Crime Commissioners leads at £101.7 million, followed closely by Tyne & Wear RDA Limited at £98.5 million. Solutions 4 North Tyneside, what looks like a local delivery vehicle, comes in third at £26.7 million. Several of these top suppliers appear to be partnership or joint-venture bodies rather than conventional commercial firms. By sector, health and social work draws the largest share at 22.6% of spend from 272 suppliers. Other service activities take 19.1%, and arts, entertainment and recreation accounts for 14.4%, driven largely by that single Tyne & Wear RDA relationship. Construction sits at 9.6% with 127 suppliers. If you're in professional services, that sector has 261 suppliers sharing 8.5% of spend.
Six contracts published, and five went direct. What's going on?
North Tyneside has only 6 contracts in our procurement records, and the method split is stark: 5 direct awards against just 1 open competition. The median contract value is around £112,000, with 4 below the procurement threshold and 2 above it. That's a very small published contract sample relative to the £1.6 billion in transaction spend, so drawing broad conclusions from it would be a stretch. But the pattern is still worth flagging. The 83 tenders worth £233 million tell a different story about pipeline activity. Those notices suggest the council does run competitive processes, even if the resulting contracts don't always appear in the published award data we hold. Data is sourced from my.northtyneside.gov.uk and Find a Tender, collected through to November 2025. Based on what we can see, the formal contract register captures only a fraction of the council's actual buying. The transaction data fills in much of what the contract data misses.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | THE ASSOCIATION OF POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONERS | £101,662,445 |
| 2 | TYNE & WEAR RDA LIMITED | £98,488,135 |
| 3 | SOLUTIONS 4 NORTH TYNESIDE LIMITED | £26,676,254 |
| 4 | SITA UK LIMITED | £24,854,967 |
| 5 | AKARI HOMES LIMITED | £21,741,642 |
| 6 | TAY VALLEY LIGHTING (NEWCASTLE AND NORTH TYNESIDE) LIMITED | £16,408,079 |
| 7 | KAJIMA NORTH TYNESIDE LIMITED | £15,527,859 |
| 8 | NEW BEGINNINGS DERBY CIC | £12,228,390 |
| 9 | NORTHUMBRIAN WATER LIMITED | £12,023,248 |
| 10 | NEW PROSPECTS ASSOCIATION LIMITED | £9,363,038 |
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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.
