Free Guide: Three Rivers Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Three Rivers District Council · Non-metropolitan district · East of England
Data covering 2011 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£110.5m
Transactions
14,092
Suppliers
1,073
Key Takeaways
- £110.5 million in recorded spend across 14,092 transactions since 2011
- 1,073 identified suppliers with an unconcentrated HHI of 275
- 6 tenders worth £496,000 published, with spending spread across 21 sectors
A small district council with over £110 million on the books
Three Rivers is a compact Hertfordshire district, covering just 34.4 square miles with a population of around 94,000. But the spending records tell a busier story than you might expect for a non-metropolitan district. Our data covers £110.5 million in recorded spend across 14,092 transactions, drawn from 20 source files spanning 2011 to 2026. That works out at roughly £7,800 per transaction on average, which points to a council that processes a high volume of smaller payments rather than a few blockbuster contracts. The data comes from cdn.threerivers.gov.uk and Find a Tender, collected through to December 2025. For a district council of this size, the transaction volume is worth paying attention to. If you're used to working with county councils or unitaries, the rhythm here will feel different. Lots of smaller orders, spread across a wide supplier base.
Who's getting paid, and is anyone dominating?
Short answer: no one is dominating. The HHI score sits at 275, which is firmly unconcentrated. Across the 1,073 suppliers we've identified, the top five account for 28.5% of matched spend and the top ten for 40.3%. SLM Inc Ltd leads with £6.1 million, followed by Plant Tec Municipal at £3.7 million and Comensura at £2.4 million. That top-three mix of services, trade, and staffing gives you a sense of how varied the council's needs are. Sector-wise, the spend fragments quickly. Other service activities and professional services each take about 13.4%, admin support sits at 10.8%, and IT and comms at 10.5%. Construction pulls in 9.3%. No single sector runs away with it. With 157 suppliers in professional services alone and 142 in wholesale and trade, based on what we can see, this is a council that spreads its money around rather than funnelling it through a handful of preferred partners.
How open is the front door?
The formal procurement record is lighter here. Our dataset holds one published contract, valued at £58,371 and awarded through an open procedure. On the tender side, we've tracked 6 notices worth a combined £496,000 through Find a Tender. For a district council, that's not unusual. Many smaller authorities run much of their procurement below the thresholds that trigger formal publication, and a lot of day-to-day buying happens through frameworks or direct purchase orders. The 14,092 transactions in the payments data tell you this council is active, but most of that activity sits below the formal contracts radar. If you're looking for large open tenders here, the pipeline based on current data is thin. But the breadth of the supplier base, 1,073 identified suppliers across 21 sectors, suggests routes in do exist. Whether those come through frameworks, local relationships, or smaller quotation processes is something the published data alone can't fully answer.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SLM INC LTD | £6,123,658 |
| 2 | PLANT TEC MUNICIPAL LTD | £3,674,885 |
| 3 | COMENSURA LIMITED | £2,381,221 |
| 4 | DENNIS EAGLE LIMITED | £1,624,918 |
| 5 | PEARCE RECYCLING COMPANY LIMITED | £1,546,308 |
| 6 | CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LTD | £1,511,509 |
| 7 | JONES LANG LASALLE UK FC | £1,305,000 |
| 8 | ALLSTAR BUSINESS SOLUTIONS LIMITED | £1,267,362 |
| 9 | CITIZENS ADVICE SERVICE IN THREE RIVERS | £1,238,167 |
| 10 | IDOX SOFTWARE LTD | £1,042,860 |
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