Free Guide: Nottingham Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Nottingham City Council · Unitary authority · East Midlands
Data covering 2011 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£7.2bn
Transactions
499,122
Suppliers
10,362
Key Takeaways
- £7.2 billion in recorded spend across nearly 500,000 transactions since 2011
- 10,362 identified suppliers spread across 22 sectors with an unconcentrated HHI of 366
- Top 5 suppliers account for just 33% of tracked spend, pointing to a wide supplier base
£7.2 billion over 15 years: how big a buyer is Nottingham?
Nottingham City Council is a unitary authority serving around 337,000 people in just 29 square miles, and it spends accordingly. Our dataset covers £7.2 billion in recorded spend across 499,122 transactions, drawn from 33 source files and spanning 2011 to 2026. That works out at roughly £480 million a year on average, though the actual figure will vary year to year. On the contracts side, we've tracked 187 published contracts worth a combined £11.6 million, plus 247 tenders with a combined value of £585.8 million. The gap between those two figures is worth noting. The tender pipeline tells you where the big money gets advertised, while the published contract data skews towards smaller, completed awards. Nottingham is also a member of Efficiency East Midlands (EEM), a purchasing consortium open to all public sector bodies, which may account for some procurement running through frameworks rather than showing up as individual council contracts.
Who's getting paid, and how spread out is the money?
Across the spending records we hold, we've matched 13,899 suppliers to Companies House records, out of 10,362 unique identified suppliers in total. The top supplier is Nottingham City Homes Limited, with £704 million in recorded spend, an arms-length housing management organisation. Tramlink Nottingham Limited sits second at £312 million, reflecting the city's tram investment. After that, K/S Cumbernauld (£236 million) and Bevan Brittan LLP (£142 million) round out the top four. The concentration picture is interesting. An HHI of 366 is low, and the top five suppliers account for 33% of tracked spend. Expand that to the top ten and it's still only 43.8%. By sector, admin and support services lead at 23.6% of spend, followed by a 17.1% chunk classified as unknown. Transportation and storage takes 11.8%, while health and social work sits at 8.4%. Construction accounts for 6.6%. It's a broad spread.
All open tenders and a £1 million median: how does Nottingham buy?
Of the 5 contracts with procurement method data, all 5 were awarded through open tender. Zero direct awards in that sample. The median contract value sits at £1 million, and all five contracts fall above the procurement threshold. That's a small sample, so it's hard to draw sweeping conclusions, but it does suggest that what Nottingham puts through formal channels tends to be larger-value work. The tender pipeline paints a fuller picture: 247 tenders worth £585.8 million collectively, sourced from Find a Tender and the council's own publication channels. If you're looking at this council, the formal tender route appears to be the primary door in, at least based on what we can see. There's no below-threshold contract data in our records, which could mean smaller purchases are handled through frameworks like EEM or simply aren't published in the sources we collect from. Worth keeping in mind when sizing up the opportunity.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | NOTTINGHAM CITY HOMES LIMITED | £704,061,086 |
| 2 | TRAMLINK NOTTINGHAM LIMITED | £312,102,984 |
| 3 | K/S CUMBERNAULD | £235,570,533 |
| 4 | BEVAN BRITTAN LLP | £141,750,304 |
| 5 | STATE STREET GLOBAL ADVISORS LIMITED | £140,200,000 |
| 6 | MANCHESTER CITY COLLEGE LIMITED | £120,619,518 |
| 7 | INSPIREDSPACES NOTTINGHAM LIMITED | £110,860,032 |
| 8 | NOTTINGHAM CITY TRANSPORT LIMITED | £93,369,946 |
| 9 | NOTTINGHAM CITYCARE PARTNERSHIP CIC | £91,134,476 |
| 10 | NOTTINGHAMSHIRE COUNTY CRICKET CLUB LIMITED | £88,000,824 |
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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.
