Free Guide: Swale Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Swale Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · South East
Data covering 2020 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£303.9m
Transactions
32,317
Suppliers
834
Key Takeaways
- £303.9 million in recorded spend across 32,317 transactions from 2020 to 2026
- 834 identified suppliers with an unconcentrated HHI of 336, top five holding 35.5%
- 10 active tenders worth £21 million signal ongoing procurement activity
How big a buyer is Swale?
Swale Borough Council sits in Kent, covering 144 square miles and a population of around 151,000. It is a non-metropolitan district, so you are looking at a mid-tier local authority rather than a major unitary or county council. But the recorded spend is respectable. Our data covers £303.9 million across 32,317 transactions, drawn from 65 source files and spanning 2020 to 2026. That works out at roughly £50 million a year in tracked payments. We have matched 1,189 supplier records to Companies House entries, linking to 834 unique identified suppliers. The data comes from services.swale.gov.uk, the council's main site, and Find a Tender. For a borough council of this size, the transaction volume is healthy. If you are looking at Swale, you are looking at a council that processes a steady, consistent flow of work rather than lumpy big-ticket programmes.
Admin services and construction dominate, but no one owns this market
The spending here is spread wide. Administrative and support services account for 22.8% of recorded spend at £21.3 million, pulled across 86 identified suppliers. Construction follows at 17.9% (£16.7 million, 74 suppliers), then waste management at 10.1%. Accommodation and food services take 8.9%, driven largely by Paramount Property Services at £7.8 million. Professional and technical services round out the top five sectors at 8.3%, and that category has the most suppliers of any sector at 125. At the top of the supplier table, Paramount Property Services (£7.8 million) and Blenwood (£7.8 million) sit almost neck and neck, followed by Suez Recycling (£6.8 million) and Matrix SCM (£6.1 million). But concentration is low. The HHI is just 336, which is unconcentrated. The top five suppliers hold 35.5% of recorded spend, and the top ten hold 49.2%. Based on what we can see, this market is not locked up by a handful of incumbents.
What does the tender pipeline look like right now?
Swale has 10 tenders in our records with a combined value of £21 million. Across the 9 contracts we hold, none have published values attached, so the tender data gives you a better read on pipeline activity here. The council sources from Find a Tender and its own portal, and those 10 live or recent opportunities are worth paying attention to if you work in the sectors where Swale spends most. The spending data shows a council that buys heavily in admin services, construction, and waste management, so tenders in those areas would be consistent with the broader pattern. One thing to keep in mind: Swale Community Leisure appears at number seven in the supplier rankings at £2.4 million, and it is a community interest body rather than a limited company. That kind of relationship with local leisure providers is fairly typical for borough councils in Kent. The question for anyone watching this council is whether those tenders signal a shift in how they are packaging work.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | PARAMOUNT PROPERTY SERVICES LIMITED | £7,835,844 |
| 2 | BLENWOOD LIMITED | £7,791,854 |
| 3 | SUEZ RECYCLING AND RECOVERY UK LTD | £6,786,066 |
| 4 | MATRIX SCM LIMITED | £6,102,529 |
| 5 | ALLIANCE LEISURE SERVICES LIMITED | £4,689,299 |
| 6 | EKC GROUP LTD | £4,683,135 |
| 7 | SWALE COMMUNITY LEISURE | £2,420,743 |
| 8 | APCOA PARKING (UK) LIMITED | £1,994,980 |
| 9 | THE ACCOMMODATION TEAM SOUTH EAST LTD | £1,810,958 |
| 10 | KIRKMAN & JOURDAIN SECURITY LIMITED | £1,798,478 |
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