Free Guide: Woking Spending & Supplier Profile
A free spending & supplier guide for Woking Borough Council · Non-metropolitan district · South East
Data covering 2010 to 2026
Recorded Spend
£1.8bn
Transactions
152,197
Suppliers
1,852
Key Takeaways
- £1.78 billion in recorded spend across 152,197 transactions since 2010
- 75% of matched spending goes to construction, dominated by two suppliers
- 30 tenders worth £193 million published, mostly through Find a Tender
£1.78 billion from a borough of 100,000 people?
That number jumps out. Woking Borough Council covers just 24.7 square miles in Surrey with a population of around 100,000, yet our data shows £1.78 billion in recorded spend across 152,197 transactions from 2010 to 2026. For a non-metropolitan district, that is an extraordinary volume. The explanation lies in Woking's well-documented commercial ventures, particularly its town centre regeneration programme and Thameswey group investments. These drove huge sums through the council's books in ways you would not see at a typical borough. Our dataset is drawn from 19 source files collected from woking.gov.uk and Find a Tender, with 3,515 supplier records matched to Companies House. We have also tracked 30 published tenders worth a combined £193 million. The spending profile here is unlike most district councils, so treat any comparisons with similar-sized authorities with caution.
Two suppliers account for nearly all the money
Victoria Square Woking Limited and Thameswey Housing Limited between them received £1.59 billion of the recorded spend. That is roughly 90% of everything we have tracked, and it pushes the HHI to 2,641, which is highly concentrated. The top five identified suppliers account for 78.5% of spend, and the top ten for 83.8%. Construction dominates, taking 75.2% of all matched spending across 160 suppliers. Professional and technical services sit a distant second at 9.4%, spread across 268 suppliers. Energy supply takes 3.3%, again largely through a Thameswey entity. Outside those top relationships, spending thins out quickly. Of the 1,852 identified suppliers in our data, most received comparatively small amounts. If you are looking at Woking as a market, the concentration tells you a lot. A handful of suppliers, several connected to the council's own commercial structures, absorbed the bulk of the budget.
What does the tender pipeline actually look like?
Contract data for Woking is thin in our records. We hold just 5 contracts with no recorded value, and no breakdown by procurement method is available. The tender data is more useful: 30 published opportunities worth £193 million give you a better sense of what comes to market openly. But set against £1.78 billion in total recorded spend, that is a small fraction reaching public tender. Much of the spending appears to flow through established arrangements, particularly with the Thameswey group entities and the Victoria Square project. The median contract value is not available from the data we hold, so it is hard to characterise the typical opportunity size. What we can say is that Woking's procurement pattern, based on what we have captured, looks very different from a standard district council. The open market here appears narrow relative to overall spend, and a lot of money moves through a small number of channels.
| # | Supplier | Spend |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | VICTORIA SQUARE WOKING LIMITED | £1,040,420,053 |
| 2 | THAMESWEY HOUSING LIMITED | £553,764,250 |
| 3 | DAVITT JONES BOULD LIMITED | £134,291,575 |
| 4 | THAMESWEY ENERGY LIMITED | £50,369,129 |
| 5 | SERCO LIMITED | £39,573,302 |
| 6 | EVOLUTION (WOKING) LIMITED | £31,188,059 |
| 7 | WILLMOTT DIXON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED | £29,234,934 |
| 8 | EVERSHEDS SUTHERLAND (INTERNATIONAL) LLP | £22,729,724 |
| 9 | SKANSKA RASHLEIGH WEATHERFOIL LIMITED | £19,943,676 |
| 10 | THAMESWEY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES LIMITED | £19,532,575 |
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