Free Guide: Warrington Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Warrington Borough Council · Unitary authority · North West
Data covering 2016 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£2.2bn
Transactions
476,959
Suppliers
5,036
Key Takeaways
- £2.2 billion in recorded spend across nearly 477,000 transactions over a decade of data
- 5,036 identified suppliers and an HHI of 131, making this one of the least concentrated markets you will find
- 77 tenders worth £260.7 million are in the pipeline, dwarfing the £4.2 million in published contracts
£2.2 billion over a decade: what does that buy you?
Warrington is a unitary authority of about 209,000 people in Cheshire, and our data shows it is a serious buyer. Across 476,959 transactions dating from 2016 to 2026, the council's recorded spend sits at £2.2 billion. That is drawn from 111 source files collected from procontract.due-north.com, Find a Tender, and the council's own website. We have matched 5,400 suppliers against Companies House records, giving decent coverage of who is actually getting paid. The spend is heavily weighted towards care and social work, which accounts for 29.3% of the total. Construction follows at 11.1%, then education at 9.7%. If you are in health or social care, this is a large and active market. But it is worth noting the spread: 22 different sectors appear in the data, and no single category dominates to the point of crowding others out.
Who actually gets the money, and how spread out is it?
The supplier base here is wide. An HHI of 131 is very low, and the top five identified suppliers account for just 19% of recorded spend. Even the top ten only reach 30%. TLT Solicitors leads with £69.2 million, followed by Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering at £52.3 million and the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners at £41.7 million. That is an unusual mix, spanning legal, construction, and policing. Further down, care providers feature heavily: MacIntyre Care (£32.3 million), Catalyst Choices (£28.7 million), Bright Futures Care (£28.2 million), and Green Orchard Care (£21.5 million). Four of the top ten suppliers are in care-related sectors. PSP Cheshire West and Chester LLP sits at fourth with £33.1 million, though its sector classification is unknown in our data. The pattern here points to a council that spreads its spending across a large pool rather than relying on a handful of incumbents.
All open tender, but where are the contracts?
Here is where it gets interesting. Of the contracts we have tracked, there are only four published, all awarded through open tender. Two sit above the procurement threshold, two below, and the median contract value is around £149,000. That is a tiny number of published contracts relative to the spend volume. But the tender pipeline tells a different story. Our data holds 77 tenders worth a combined £260.7 million. That is a big gap between tender activity and published contract records, and it likely reflects how Warrington publishes its procurement data rather than an absence of formal buying. The council appears to run a competitive process. Every contract in our dataset came through open competition, with no direct awards showing up at all. For a council spending at this scale, the zero direct award rate is unusual and worth keeping in mind when assessing how accessible this market looks from the outside.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TLT SOLICITORS LIMITED | £69,249,433 |
| 2 | BALFOUR BEATTY CIVIL ENGINEERING LIMITED | £52,264,070 |
| 3 | THE ASSOCIATION OF POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONERS | £41,723,721 |
| 4 | PSP CHESHIRE WEST AND CHESTER LLP | £33,148,970 |
| 5 | RALPH LIVESEY LIMITED | £33,035,533 |
| 6 | MACINTYRE CARE | £32,320,525 |
| 7 | CATALYST CHOICES MANAGEMENT SERVICES LTD | £28,739,740 |
| 8 | BRIGHT FUTURES CARE LIMITED | £28,170,131 |
| 9 | VIRIDOR ENERGY LIMITED | £22,056,480 |
| 10 | GREEN ORCHARD CARE LTD | £21,469,451 |
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