Free Guide: Torridge Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Torridge District Council · Non-metropolitan district · South West
Data covering 2010 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£140.7m
Transactions
45,162
Suppliers
868
Key Takeaways
- £140.7 million in recorded spend across 45,162 transactions since 2010
- 868 identified suppliers with an unconcentrated HHI of 209, spreading spend widely
- 27 tenders worth £5.4 million tracked alongside 25 published contracts
How much does a rural Devon district actually spend?
More than you might expect. Torridge is a small non-metropolitan district, population 68,700 spread across 380 square miles of north Devon. But our data shows £140.7 million in recorded spend across 45,162 transactions, drawn from 92 source files and covering 2010 to 2026. That works out to roughly £8.8 million a year on average, though spending will not have been evenly distributed across that period. We have matched 895 suppliers in the dataset, spread across 22 sectors. For a district council of this size, that is a broad supplier base. Torridge publishes its data through procontract.due-north.com and its own website, and we have also picked up tender notices from Find a Tender. The council is a member of the LHC Procurement Group, which covers all public sector bodies, so some procurement may route through framework agreements that sit outside the council's own published contracts.
Financial services and building supplies dominate the top table
Across the spending records we hold, the top supplier is Coventry Building Supplies at £4 million, followed by Morgan Sindall at £2.3 million. Three of the top five suppliers sit in financial services: Close Brothers, Clydesdale Bank, and Nationwide Building Supplies (the latter actually classified under wholesale and retail). Financial and insurance activities account for 15.3% of identified spend, with wholesale and retail trade close behind at 14.8%. Construction takes 11.6%. Professional and technical services pull in £4.6 million across 145 suppliers, the highest supplier count of any sector. The concentration picture is interesting. An HHI of 209 is very low, and the top five suppliers account for just 23.1% of recorded spend. The top ten take 38.2%. That spread across 868 identified suppliers tells you this council is not locked into a handful of dominant providers. If you are looking at Torridge, competition for spend appears genuinely open based on what we can see.
Where are the formal tenders?
Our data covers 25 contracts and 27 tenders worth a combined £5.4 million in tender value. Contract values are not recorded in the dataset, so we cannot break down contract sizes or median values. Procurement method distribution is similarly absent from the published data. That means we cannot tell you how much goes through open competition versus direct award. What we can say is that the tender pipeline is modest in volume. For a council spending this much through its purchase-to-pay system, 27 tenders over the data period is a small number relative to the 45,162 transactions recorded. This pattern is common with district councils, where much of the day-to-day spend runs through frameworks or falls below formal procurement thresholds. If you are tracking Torridge's pipeline, the tenders that do appear are worth watching closely, but the bulk of accessible spend likely sits within existing framework arrangements like LHC.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVENTRY BUILDING SUPPLIES LIMITED | £4,000,000 |
| 2 | MORGAN SINDALL LIMITED | £2,295,731 |
| 3 | CLOSE BROTHERS LIMITED | £2,000,000 |
| 4 | NATIONWIDE BUILDING SUPPLIES LTD | £2,000,000 |
| 5 | CLYDESDALE BANK PLC | £2,000,000 |
| 6 | LLOYDS BANK PLC | £1,974,164 |
| 7 | COMENSURA LIMITED | £1,768,157 |
| 8 | ROMAQUIP UK | £1,647,022 |
| 9 | ACTIVE TORRIDGE LTD | £1,449,225 |
| 10 | DENNIS EAGLE LIMITED | £1,252,112 |
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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.
