Free Guide: Staffordshire Moorlands Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Staffordshire Moorlands District Council · Non-metropolitan district · West Midlands
Data covering 2015 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£365.4m
Transactions
7,693
Suppliers
545
Key Takeaways
- £365 million in recorded spend across 7,693 transactions from 2015 to 2026
- 42% of matched spend goes to Education-classified suppliers, led by Alliance Leisure Services
- 554 suppliers identified across 20 sectors, with an HHI of 1,833 pointing to moderate concentration
£365 million from a district council of 98,000 people?
Staffordshire Moorlands is a non-metropolitan district in the West Midlands, covering 222 square miles of mostly rural Staffordshire. For a council serving just under 100,000 residents, the recorded spend is striking. Our data shows £365 million across 7,693 transactions, drawn from 64 source files spanning 2015 to 2026. That works out at roughly £3,700 per resident over the period. On the formal procurement side, we hold 8 published contracts and 15 tenders worth a combined £601,821. The council publishes its spending data through its own site alongside Find a Tender notices. With 554 identified suppliers across those transactions, this is a council with a broad supplier base relative to its size. If you are looking at district-level opportunities in Staffordshire, the transaction volume alone suggests steady, recurring purchasing activity rather than a handful of one-off projects.
One supplier dominates, and it is not who you would expect
Alliance Leisure Services tops the spending table at £11.7 million, classified under Education. That single supplier accounts for a large share of the total matched spend, and it pulls the whole sector with it. Education takes 42.1% of recorded spend, but only 12 suppliers sit in that category. Strip out Alliance Leisure and the picture changes entirely. Administrative and support services comes in second at £3.6 million (13.1%), spread across 65 suppliers. Professional and technical services follows with £2.3 million across 99 identified suppliers, making it the most fragmented category by supplier count. The top five suppliers account for 55.8% of matched spend, and the top ten for 62.8%. The HHI sits at 1,833, moderately concentrated. That concentration is driven heavily by the Alliance Leisure position at the top. Below the top tier, spending is spread quite thinly across hundreds of smaller suppliers.
How does this council actually buy?
Of the 15 tenders we have tracked, the combined value sits at £601,821. The 8 published contracts in our dataset carry no recorded value, which limits what we can say about contract sizing and award methods. There is no method distribution data available in our records, so we cannot break down the split between open competition and direct awards. What we can observe is the gap between transactional activity (7,693 payment records) and formal published procurement (23 contracts and tenders combined). This pattern is common among smaller district councils, where much of the day-to-day purchasing falls below formal publication thresholds. The council sources data through its own website and Find a Tender. For bid managers, the real picture of this council's buying behaviour sits more in the payments data than in the formal contract register. That transactional layer, with 554 matched suppliers, tells you more about who is actually winning work here.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ALLIANCE LEISURE SERVICES LIMITED | £11,666,439 |
| 2 | SPECIALIST FLEET SERVICES LIMITED | £1,354,724 |
| 3 | PARKWOOD LEISURE LIMITED | £1,024,608 |
| 4 | ASCENT HOUSING LTD | £1,000,000 |
| 5 | GRANT THORNTON (NI) LLP | £489,359 |
| 6 | CAMBURG COLLECTIVE LTD | £439,037 |
| 7 | WATER PLUS LIMITED | £424,879 |
| 8 | ZURICH INSURANCE COMPANY | £416,191 |
| 9 | MUTUAL VENTURES LIMITED | £353,661 |
| 10 | SUPPORT STAFFORDSHIRE | £338,485 |
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