Free Guide: South Ribble Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for South Ribble Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · North West
Data covering 2016 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£98.7m
Transactions
11,494
Suppliers
829
Key Takeaways
- £98.7 million in recorded spend across 11,494 transactions over a decade
- 832 matched suppliers with the top 5 accounting for 41% of spend
- 11 tenders worth £460,000 published, with leisure and construction dominating spend
How big a buyer is South Ribble?
For a non-metropolitan district of around 111,000 people in Lancashire, South Ribble has a solid spending footprint. Our dataset covers £98.7 million in recorded spend across 11,494 transactions, drawn from 38 source files spanning 2016 to 2026. That works out to roughly £9.9 million a year on average, though spending will not have been evenly distributed. The data comes from southribble.gov.uk and Find a Tender, collected through to November 2025. We have matched 832 suppliers against Companies House records across those transactions. South Ribble sits in a part of Lancashire without a combined authority, so it handles a range of district-level services directly. If you are looking at borough councils in the North West, this is a buyer with enough volume to be worth tracking, particularly given the breadth of sectors the spending touches.
Leisure and construction take the lion's share
The spending profile here has a clear tilt. Education-classified suppliers (which in this case largely means leisure management, with Alliance Leisure Services topping the list at £8.8 million) account for 24.9% of matched spend. Construction follows at 18.7% across 107 identified suppliers, with firms like R.P. Tyson Construction and Bradley Demolition in the top ten. Arts, entertainment and recreation adds another 8.9%, boosted by South Ribble Leisure Limited at just under £3 million. Between those three categories, you are looking at over half of all recorded spend. Concentration is relatively low overall, with an HHI of 680. But the top five suppliers still pull in 41.4% of tracked spend, and the top ten take 50.8%. So while the supplier base is broad at 829 identified companies, the money clusters around a handful of big relationships, particularly in leisure and waste services.
Where are the tender opportunities?
Formal procurement notices tell a different story from the transaction data. Our records hold 3 published contracts with no recorded values, and 11 tenders worth a combined £460,000. There is no procurement method breakdown available in the contract data we hold. Most of the spending picture comes from transaction records rather than published contract notices. FCC Environment Services, sitting at £2.1 million in spend for waste management, is the kind of relationship that would typically sit behind a long-term contract, but the formal notice may predate our dataset or sit on a different platform. The same likely applies to the council's leisure arrangements with Alliance Leisure Services. Find a Tender and the council's own procurement pages may carry additional notices beyond what CouncilLedger captures, so the formal contracting side of South Ribble's spending may be broader than what appears in this dataset.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ALLIANCE LEISURE SERVICES LIMITED | £8,817,964 |
| 2 | SOUTH RIBBLE LEISURE LIMITED | £2,997,363 |
| 3 | FCC ENVIRONMENT SERVICES (UK) LIMITED | £2,075,246 |
| 4 | R.P. TYSON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £1,016,177 |
| 5 | ARTHUR J. GALLAGHER & CO. | £896,367 |
| 6 | CHADWICK LAWRENCE SOLICITORS LIMITED | £886,037 |
| 7 | EBM MANAGED SERVICES LTD | £759,366 |
| 8 | LANDSCAPE ENGINEERING LTD. | £679,663 |
| 9 | BRADLEY DEMOLITION LIMITED | £628,418 |
| 10 | BARCLAYS BANK PLC | £627,380 |
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