Free Guide: Tamworth Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Tamworth Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · West Midlands
Data covering 2018 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£591.3m
Transactions
23,399
Suppliers
1,647
Key Takeaways
- £591 million in recorded spend across 23,399 transactions from 2018 to 2026
- 59.4% of matched spend goes to just five suppliers, led by construction firms
- 17 tenders worth £1.6 million published, with construction dominating the supplier base
How does a small borough rack up £591 million in spend?
Tamworth is compact. Just 12 square miles and around 77,000 residents, making it one of the smaller non-metropolitan districts in the West Midlands. But the spending data tells a different story. Our dataset covers £591 million in recorded spend across 23,399 transactions, drawn from 69 source files collected between 2018 and 2026. That is a busy payment ledger for a borough this size. We have matched 1,656 suppliers against Companies House records, spread across 22 sectors. On the contracts side, published contract notices account for £183,000 across 9 contracts, while 17 tenders carry a combined value of £1.6 million. The bulk of what you can analyse here sits in the transaction-level payment data rather than formal contract records. If you are researching Tamworth's buying patterns, the payment data is where the depth is.
Construction firms and two familiar names at the top
Construction is the clear spending leader. Of the spend we have matched, 38.1% flows to construction firms, with 117 identified suppliers in that sector alone. Equans Regeneration leads the pack at £30.5 million, closely followed by A.D.E Regeneration at £29.6 million. Two Wates entities, Wates Property Services (£23.2 million) and Wates Construction (£22 million), sit at third and fourth. Between them, these four account for a large chunk of the top-five share, which stands at 59.4% of matched spend. The HHI score is 823, which is unconcentrated. So while the top names are pulling in big numbers, there is enough spread across the 1,647 identified suppliers to keep the overall concentration moderate. Administrative services come in second at 17.7%, followed by other service activities at 13.2%. Professional and technical services sit at 7.5%, while wholesale and retail trade has the highest supplier count at 248.
Where are all the open tenders?
On the formal procurement side, the data is straightforward. Our data holds one procurement-method-tagged contract, and that was an open procedure above threshold, valued at £183,000. The 17 published tenders are worth £1.6 million combined, which gives you a sense of the pipeline that has been formally advertised. Most of what Tamworth spends flows through its transaction records rather than through published contract notices or tender rounds. That pattern is common among smaller district councils, where much of the buying happens below formal publication thresholds or through frameworks. For bid managers, the transaction data across those 23,399 payments gives you a much richer picture of who is getting paid and for what than the contract register alone. The median contract value sits at £183,000 based on the single tagged record, so draw your own conclusions on typical deal size from the broader payment patterns.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | EQUANS REGENERATION LIMITED | £30,451,272 |
| 2 | A.D.E REGENERATION LTD | £29,566,799 |
| 3 | WATES PROPERTY SERVICES LIMITED | £23,202,273 |
| 4 | WATES CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £22,016,688 |
| 5 | SPELLER METCALFE MALVERN LIMITED | £8,073,111 |
| 6 | PICKERINGS SOLICITORS (TAMWORTH) LIMITED | £6,053,060 |
| 7 | FREETHS LLP | £4,090,441 |
| 8 | NOVUS PROPERTY SOLUTIONS LIMITED | £3,703,893 |
| 9 | CORNERSTONE PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED | £3,105,116 |
| 10 | EDF ENERGY LIMITED | £2,348,635 |
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