Free Guide: Swindon Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Swindon Borough Council · Unitary authority · South West
Data covering 2024 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£150.2m
Transactions
106,425
Suppliers
1,573
Key Takeaways
- £150 million in recorded spend across 106,425 transactions from 2024 to 2026
- 1,573 identified suppliers with an unconcentrated HHI of 140, meaning spend is widely spread
- 138 tenders worth £426 million signal a busy procurement pipeline ahead
£150 million through the books, and a broad supplier base to match
Swindon Borough Council is a unitary authority covering 88.8 square miles and a population of around 223,000 in the South West. Our data shows £150.2 million in recorded spend across 106,425 transactions from 2024 to 2026, drawn from 33 source files. That works out at roughly £1,400 per transaction on average, which tells you this is a council with a long tail of smaller purchases alongside its larger contracts. Across the 72 contracts we hold, the combined value sits at £3.9 million, while 138 published tenders are worth a combined £425.8 million. The spending data comes from two sources: Find a Tender and Swindon's own website. With 1,573 identified suppliers matched from 1,642 records, there is a wide spread of organisations doing business here. For a mid-sized unitary, Swindon moves a decent volume of money through a lot of hands.
Health and construction take the biggest slices, but nobody dominates
The top sector by spend is health and social work at £73.4 million, accounting for 24.4% of recorded spend across 243 identified suppliers. Construction follows at £55.3 million (18.4%), then education at £51.2 million (17.0%). Those three sectors alone make up nearly 60% of the spend we've tracked. But here's the thing: concentration is remarkably low. An HHI of 140 is about as unconcentrated as you'll find. The top five suppliers account for just 21.0% of recorded spend, and the top ten for 29.6%. Matrix SCM leads the pack at £16.9 million, mostly in admin and support services. Education Support (Swindon) sits second at £14.6 million, classified under construction. First City Nursing rounds out the top three at £11.5 million. If you're in professional and technical services, that sector runs to £15.3 million across 171 suppliers, so competition looks spread thin.
How open is the front door?
Of the 3 above-threshold contracts we've tracked for procurement method, 2 were awarded through open procedure and 1 was a direct award. The median contract value across those sits at £1.6 million, so the contracts that do surface tend to be sizeable. The real story for Swindon is the tender pipeline. There are 138 tenders in our data worth £425.8 million combined, which points to active procurement across the council. The source data comes under OGL v3 licensing, collected up to November 2025, so you're looking at fairly current information. With spend spread so widely across 1,573 suppliers and 22 sectors, this does not look like a council that funnels work to a tight group of incumbents. The low concentration scores back that up. Whether that openness carries through to how individual contract decisions get made is a different question, but the top-level numbers paint a competitive picture.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MATRIX SCM LIMITED | £16,874,633 |
| 2 | EDUCATION SUPPORT (SWINDON) LIMITED | £14,624,571 |
| 3 | FIRST CITY NURSING SERVICES LIMITED | £11,528,872 |
| 4 | VIRIDOR ENERGY LIMITED | £10,031,614 |
| 5 | CAMS HILL SCHOOL | £9,974,261 |
| 6 | COLAS LIMITED | £8,347,216 |
| 7 | THE WHITE HORSE FEDERATION | £5,798,530 |
| 8 | CHANGE, GROW, LIVE SERVICES LIMITED | £3,978,866 |
| 9 | ROMAQUIP UK | £3,890,300 |
| 10 | BRUNEL EDUCATION | £3,825,733 |
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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.
