Free Guide: Waverley Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Waverley Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · South East
Data covering 2013 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£86.5m
Transactions
9,657
Suppliers
542
Key Takeaways
- £86.5 million in recorded spend across 9,657 transactions since 2021
- Construction dominates at 49.8% of matched spend, with 68 identified suppliers
- 552 matched suppliers and an unconcentrated market with an HHI of 720
A £86.5 million buyer with a construction habit
Waverley Borough Council sits in Surrey, covering about 133 square miles and a population of around 127,000. It is a non-metropolitan district, so the scope of services is narrower than a county or unitary authority. But the spending adds up. Our dataset covers £86.5 million in recorded spend across 9,657 transactions, with payment data running from April 2021 onwards. Tender records stretch back further, to 2013. Across 13 published tenders, the combined value sits at roughly £179 million, which tells you there are some large procurements flowing through here. We have matched 552 suppliers to company records, drawn from nine source files collected from waverley.gov.uk and Find a Tender. Waverley is also a member of the Fusion21 consortium, which opens up access to frameworks across public sector buying. For a district council, this is a reasonably busy buyer.
Construction firms take half the spend. Who's leading?
Almost half of all matched spend, 49.8%, goes to construction firms. Of the 542 identified suppliers in our data, 68 sit in the construction sector. Biffa Municipal leads the overall rankings at £9.9 million, but that is waste management, not building work. After Biffa, the next four top suppliers are all construction: Ian Williams (£9.3 million), Feltham Construction (£5 million), Russell Cawberry (£4.9 million), and Castle Homes (£3.3 million). Together, those top five account for 53.7% of matched spend. The market is not tightly concentrated though. An HHI of 720 puts it firmly in unconcentrated territory, meaning spend is spread across a wide pool of suppliers rather than locked up with a handful. Waste and environmental services take 16.9% of spend, while admin support and professional services each account for less than 8%. If you are targeting construction work, this council is clearly active in that space.
Is there much open competition here?
Waverley's formal contract register is light compared to its payment activity. We hold one contract in our procurement dataset, valued at £181,122, awarded through an open procedure. Across the 13 tenders we have tracked, the combined advertised value reaches £179 million, so there are clearly larger opportunities being put to market. The single contract on record was above threshold, which fits with a council that may be routing much of its procurement through frameworks rather than publishing individual contract notices. Waverley's membership in Fusion21 supports that reading. The payment data tells the fuller story: 9,657 transactions flowing to 542 suppliers show a busy procurement operation. The open tender on record and the framework membership suggest a mix of routes to market, and the spread of suppliers points to competitive buying practices across the board.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | BIFFA MUNICIPAL LIMITED | £9,889,416 |
| 2 | IAN WILLIAMS LIMITED | £9,276,716 |
| 3 | FELTHAM CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £5,026,074 |
| 4 | RUSSELL CAWBERRY LIMITED | £4,909,685 |
| 5 | CASTLE HOMES (DEVELOPMENTS) LIMITED | £3,306,143 |
| 6 | TLT LLP | £2,820,640 |
| 7 | KRINKELS UK LIMITED | £1,342,327 |
| 8 | NRT BUILDING SERVICES GROUP LIMITED | £1,290,603 |
| 9 | PILON LIMITED | £1,285,910 |
| 10 | NIBLOCK (BUILDERS) LIMITED | £856,111 |
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