Free Guide: Rushmoor Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Rushmoor Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · South East
Data covering 2011 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£16.7m
Transactions
52,930
Suppliers
1,755
Key Takeaways
- £16.7 million in recorded payment transactions across 52,930 line items since 2011
- 73.3% of matched spend goes to just five suppliers, led by Sports and Leisure Management
- 1,799 suppliers matched from 195 source files covering 15 years of spending data
How big a buyer is Rushmoor?
Rushmoor is a compact borough council covering just 15.1 square miles in Hampshire with a population of around 94,400. Our dataset holds £16.7 million in recorded payment transactions spread across 52,930 line items, drawn from 195 source files and covering spending from 2011 to 2026. For a non-metropolitan district of this size, that is a decent volume of transactional data to work with. We have also tracked 1 published contract valued at £148 million and 6 tenders worth a combined £97 million. The contract figure is dominated by a single large leisure management deal, so it tells you more about how the council outsources big services than about day-to-day purchasing patterns. The payment transaction data gives you the better picture of routine spend. All of this comes from data.rushmoor.gov.uk and Find a Tender, collected through to December 2025.
Sports and Leisure Management towers over the supplier list
Across the 1,799 suppliers we have matched, concentration is high. The HHI sits at 3,033, which puts this firmly in "highly concentrated" territory. The top five identified suppliers account for 73.3% of matched spend, and the top ten take 77.3%. Sports and Leisure Management Ltd leads with £148 million, almost entirely from a single large contract. Serco follows at £30.1 million, then Hampshire County Cars at £17 million. By sector, arts, entertainment and recreation accounts for 55.4% of spend, which is almost entirely driven by that leisure contract. Professional and technical services come in at 14.1%, transport at 6.2%, and construction at 5.8% across 144 suppliers. If you strip out the top leisure contract, the spending profile looks much more spread out. Construction firms like Neilcott, F.K Build, and Southern Counties all appear in the top ten, suggesting steady building and maintenance work.
What does the tender pipeline actually look like?
The procurement data here is thin on published contracts. We hold just one, and it went through open competition. That single contract, the £148 million leisure management deal, was above threshold. With only 6 tenders in the pipeline worth a combined £97 million, this is not a council that floods the market with formal procurement notices. Most of the day-to-day spending likely runs through frameworks, call-off arrangements, or falls below publication thresholds. The 52,930 payment transactions tell a different story from the formal procurement records. Rushmoor clearly spends across a wide range of suppliers, with 1,755 unique names in the data, but much of that activity does not surface as individually published contracts or tenders. For bid managers, the payment data is probably the more useful starting point for understanding where money actually flows and which suppliers are already embedded in the council's supply chain.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SPORTS AND LEISURE MANAGEMENT LTD | £147,987,583 |
| 2 | SERCO LIMITED | £30,061,867 |
| 3 | HAMPSHIRE COUNTY CARS LIMITED | £16,963,370 |
| 4 | NEILCOTT CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £4,572,316 |
| 5 | RUSHMOOR CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAUX | £2,928,038 |
| 6 | F.K BUILD LIMITED | £2,682,288 |
| 7 | PLACES FOR PEOPLE LEISURE LIMITED | £2,327,336 |
| 8 | PHOENIX SOFTWARE LIMITED | £2,306,106 |
| 9 | R GIBBS LIMITED | £2,140,347 |
| 10 | SOUTHERN COUNTIES BUILDING SOLUTIONS LTD | £1,656,688 |
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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.
