Free Guide: Telford and Wrekin Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Telford & Wrekin Council · Unitary authority · West Midlands
Data covering 2010 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£2.3bn
Transactions
461,364
Suppliers
4,776
Key Takeaways
- £2.3 billion in recorded spend across 461,364 transactions since 2010
- 4,776 identified suppliers with an unconcentrated market at HHI 339
- Construction dominates at 24.3% of matched spend, followed by professional services
£2.3 billion over 16 years: what does that tell you?
Telford and Wrekin is a unitary authority covering 112 square miles in the West Midlands, with a population of around 181,000. Our dataset covers £2.3 billion in recorded spend across 461,364 transactions, drawn from 191 source files published between 2010 and 2026. That is a deep spending history by any measure. On the contracts side, we've tracked 238 published contracts worth a combined £2.5 million, plus 81 tenders with a combined value of roughly £5.1 billion. The gap between transaction-level spend and published contract values is worth noting. It suggests that much of the council's day-to-day purchasing sits below formal contract thresholds, or that contracts are published selectively. For a council of this size, the volume of transactional data is large enough to give you a solid read on where the money actually flows, even if the formal contract register only tells part of the story.
A construction-heavy buyer with some familiar local names
Construction takes the biggest slice of matched spend at 24.3%, pulling in £340.6 million across 330 identified suppliers. Professional and technical services follow at 15.3%, then administrative support at 15.2%. But the top supplier list tells a more interesting story. Telford & Wrekin Integrated Services Ltd sits at number one with £135.1 million, and Veolia ES Telford & Wrekin Ltd holds fourth place at £95.8 million. Both are council-linked or bespoke local vehicles. Nuplace Limited, a council-owned housing company, ranks fifth at £67.6 million. Of the 4,776 suppliers we've identified, the top five account for 37.3% of recorded spend, and the top ten for 48.0%. Yet the HHI score is just 339, which is low. That combination points to a market where a handful of big relationships coexist alongside a long tail of smaller suppliers. If you're not already on this council's radar, the breadth of the supplier base suggests there is room.
How open is the front door?
Of the six contracts with procurement method data, three were direct awards and three went through open tender. That is a small sample, so read carefully. The median contract value sits at £217,500, and four of the six contracts were above threshold. On the tender pipeline, 81 published tenders worth a combined £5.1 billion give you a sense of what this council puts out to market. The data is sourced from both Find a Tender and the council's own website, which means you are seeing a mix of high-value regulated procurements and locally advertised opportunities. With half the recorded contracts awarded directly in our sample, the council clearly uses direct awards for some of its buying. But the open tenders are there too, and the sheer volume of transactional spend across thousands of suppliers suggests that new entrants do get a look in. Whether that applies at the larger contract level is harder to say from this data alone.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TELFORD & WREKIN INTEGRATED SERVICES LTD | £135,136,083 |
| 2 | PYRAMID SCHOOLS (HADLEY) LIMITED | £124,994,147 |
| 3 | BALFOUR BEATTY CIVILS LIMITED | £99,582,457 |
| 4 | VEOLIA ES TELFORD & WREKIN LIMITED | £95,843,027 |
| 5 | NUPLACE LIMITED | £67,642,781 |
| 6 | MCPHILLIPS (WELLINGTON) LIMITED | £37,775,738 |
| 7 | MORRIS PROPERTY LIMITED | £33,042,421 |
| 8 | HOUR CONSTRUCTION LTD | £30,260,983 |
| 9 | FITZGERALD CONTRACTORS LIMITED | £24,861,062 |
| 10 | MORGAN SINDALL LIMITED | £24,655,965 |
About Us
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.
