Free Guide: Reigate and Banstead Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Reigate and Banstead Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · South East
Data covering 2016 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£158.2m
Transactions
6,847
Suppliers
497
Key Takeaways
- £158 million in recorded spend across 6,847 transactions over a decade
- 80.5% of matched spend goes to just five suppliers, driven by investment funds
- 5 tenders worth £1.45 million are the only published pipeline in our data
£158 million over a decade, but what's really going on?
Reigate and Banstead is a borough council covering about 50 square miles of Surrey with a population of around 149,000. Our dataset covers £158 million in recorded spend across 6,847 transactions, drawn from 35 source files spanning 2016 to 2026. For a non-metropolitan district, that is a sizeable volume of purchasing activity. But the picture needs some unpacking. Two of the top five identified suppliers are investment fund managers: Morgan Stanley Funds (UK) at £36 million and Federated Hermes (UK) LLP at £6 million. Those two alone account for a large chunk of the total. Strip out the treasury management activity and the operational spending profile looks quite different. We have matched 498 suppliers across 21 sectors, so there is breadth here. The question for anyone reading this is which layer of spending is relevant to your market.
Two investment funds dominate, so who else is getting work?
The concentration numbers tell a clear story. An HHI of 4,494 puts this firmly in highly concentrated territory, and the top five identified suppliers account for 80.5% of matched spend. But that concentration is almost entirely driven by the investment fund payments. Beyond those, the supplier base opens up. Penna PLC (admin and support services) sits at £689,000, Metropolitan Housing Trust at £641,000, and Blakedown Landscapes at £532,000 in construction. Across the sectors we have tracked, 80.4% of spend sits in the "unknown" SIC category, largely because those investment vehicles lack standard sector codes. Of the classifiable spend, admin and support services leads at 4.0%, followed by information and communication at 3.4% and construction at 3.2%. Professional and technical services draws from the widest supplier pool with 86 identified firms, though total spend there is more modest at just over £1 million.
Where's the tender pipeline?
The published tender pipeline is slim. Our records show 5 tenders worth a combined £1.45 million, sourced from Find a Tender Service and the council's own website. There are no published contracts with procurement method data in our dataset, so we cannot break down how much goes through open competition versus direct award. That does not mean the council is not tendering. It means the published records we hold do not give a full view of their procurement routes. For a borough of this size, most routine purchasing likely falls below the thresholds that trigger formal publication requirements. If you are looking at this council, the transaction-level spending data across those 6,847 records is probably more useful than the tender pipeline for understanding where money actually flows. The average transaction across the full dataset works out to roughly £23,000, pointing to a lot of smaller-value activity.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MORGAN STANLEY FUNDS (UK) | £36,000,000 |
| 2 | FEDERATED HERMES (UK) LLP | £6,000,000 |
| 3 | PENNA PLC | £688,680 |
| 4 | METROPOLITAN HOUSING TRUST LIMITED | £640,627 |
| 5 | BLAKEDOWN LANDSCAPES (SE) LIMITED | £532,000 |
| 6 | MATRIX SCM LIMITED | £451,156 |
| 7 | BROWNE JACOBSON LLP | £441,840 |
| 8 | MILLBROOK HEALTHCARE LTD | £393,963 |
| 9 | ARK BUILD PLC | £319,767 |
| 10 | CORONA ENERGY LIMITED | £260,344 |
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