Free Guide: North West Leicestershire Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for North West Leicestershire District Council · Non-metropolitan district · East Midlands
Data covering 2014 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£1.5bn
Transactions
39,223
Suppliers
1,365
Key Takeaways
- £1.5 billion in recorded spend across 39,223 transactions since 2014
- 82.8% of matched spend goes to just five suppliers, dominated by health and care
- 11 tenders worth £2.35 million show a small but active pipeline
£1.5 billion from a district council?
That number jumps out. North West Leicestershire is a non-metropolitan district of about 105,000 people in the East Midlands, covering roughly 108 square miles. Not the profile you'd expect for a buyer of this size. But our dataset covers 39,223 transactions spanning 2014 to 2026, drawn from 105 source files, and the recorded spend totals £1.52 billion. A large chunk of that, as we'll see, flows through a single health and care supplier. Strip that out and you're looking at a much more typical district council spend profile. We've matched 1,371 suppliers across those records, spread over 22 different sectors. The council is also a member of Efficiency East Midlands (EEM), a consortium open to all public sector bodies, which may explain some of the procurement routes used. For a district authority, the transaction volume alone makes it worth a closer look.
One supplier takes a third of all recorded spend
Leicestershire County Care Limited accounts for nearly £498 million of matched spend, roughly a third of everything we've tracked. That single relationship pushes the health and social work sector to 75.9% of total recorded spend across 29 identified suppliers. It's an unusually top-heavy picture. The top five suppliers between them take 82.8% of matched spend, and the HHI sits at 5,520, which is highly concentrated. After health, the next largest sectors are financial services (3.9%), arts and recreation (3.6%), and wholesale and retail (3.2%). Sports and Leisure Management Ltd comes in second at £23.5 million, followed by Lloyds Bank at £14.1 million. Construction, professional services, and admin support each sit around 2-3%. If you're in those mid-tier sectors, the competition looks more spread out, with 108 construction suppliers and 223 professional services firms identified in the data.
Where are the formal tenders?
This is where the picture gets thin. Our data shows 11 tenders worth a combined £2.35 million and 6 published contracts, though none carry a recorded contract value. There's no method distribution data available, so we can't break down how much goes through open competition versus direct awards. That gap makes it harder to judge how accessible this council is for new suppliers. What we can say is that the tender pipeline is modest relative to the overall spend, and the heavy concentration at the top suggests established supplier relationships carry weight here. The tenders we have tracked are sourced from Find a Tender and the council's own domain. For a council spending at this volume, the low number of formally published opportunities is worth noting. Whether that reflects the council's procurement approach or gaps in published data is something the numbers alone can't tell you.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LEICESTERSHIRE COUNTY CARE LIMITED | £497,697,366 |
| 2 | SPORTS AND LEISURE MANAGEMENT LTD | £23,490,134 |
| 3 | LLOYDS BANK PLC | £14,147,268 |
| 4 | LANCASHIRE COUNTY CARE LTD | £10,500,000 |
| 5 | COMENSURA LIMITED | £10,280,229 |
| 6 | TRAVIS PERKINS TRADING COMPANY LIMITED | £7,458,836 |
| 7 | LOVELL PARTNERSHIPS LIMITED | £5,494,954 |
| 8 | HSBC BANK PLC | £5,318,000 |
| 9 | STEPNELL LIMITED | £4,896,973 |
| 10 | NATIONWIDE BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD | £4,500,000 |
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