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Birmingham City Council

Birmingham City Council is a UK public-sector contracting authority. This profile aggregates its public-record procurement — top suppliers, categories, recent awards, open tenders and expiring contracts.

Data period: 2023-11-08 to 2026-11-08Updated 2026-11-08

£6.7bn

Total spend

874

Contract awards

594

Unique suppliers

£9.7M

Avg contract

According to ENKII, Birmingham City Council has awarded 874 contracts worth £6.7bn to 594 suppliers between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, at an average contract value of £9.7M, with the top five suppliers holding 37% of contract value.

Top suppliers

Top suppliers to Birmingham City Council

Top-five suppliers hold 37% of contract value — a moderately competitive market.

SupplierAwardsTotal value
Equans Regeneration Limited3£1.0bn
Mears Limited1£446.9M
Veolia Environmental Services (UK) Limited2£432.2M
Wates Property Services Limited1£368.2M
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust4£190.8M
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust1£185.0M
Sevacare (UK) Limited1£140.0M
KIER CONSTRUCTION LIMITED1£120.0M
KIER TRANSPORTATION LIMITED1£120.0M
Medequip Assistive Technology Ltd1£95.0M
Claremont Living3£90.0M
Age Concern Birmingham2£56.0M
Age UK Birmingham1£56.0M
Antoine Care1£56.0M
Apna Ghar Day Centre2£56.0M
Assisted Lives Ltd1£56.0M
Balance Senior Day Service1£56.0M
Be Care Ltd T/A British elderly care Birmingham1£56.0M
Birmingham Care Group1£56.0M
Birmingham Industrial Therapy Association Ltd T/A Better Pathways1£56.0M

Procurement categories

What Birmingham City Council buys

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.

Health and social work services

85
265 awards£3.5bn

Transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation

34
78 awards£50.8M

Architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services

71
75 awards£142.2M

Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security

79
75 awards£40.3M

Software package and information systems

48
65 awards£36.9M

Construction work

45
59 awards£1.7bn

Administration, defence and social security services

75
35 awards£10.0M

Education and training services

80
33 awards£25.0M

IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

72
29 awards£30.2M

Hotel, restaurant and retail trade services

55
24 awards£2.5M

Other community, social and personal services

98
22 awards£36.8M

Sewage, refuse, cleaning and environmental services

90
21 awards£450.3M

Real estate services

70
14 awards£6.6M

Repair and maintenance services

50
12 awards£143.1M

Construction structures and materials; auxiliary products to construction (except electric apparatus)

44
8 awards£4.2M

Financial and insurance services

66
8 awards£4.0M

Printed matter and related products

22
6 awards£6.6M

Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages

30
4 awards£4.3M

Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses)

38
4 awards£828K

Agricultural machinery

16
3 awards£477K

Electrical machinery, apparatus, equipment and consumables; lighting

31
3 awards£397K

Furniture (incl. office furniture), furnishings, domestic appliances (excl. lighting) and cleaning products

39
3 awards£4.8M

Industrial machinery

42
3 awards£8.7M

Transport services (excl. Waste transport)

60
3 awards£4.0M

Research and development services and related consultancy services

73
3 awards£223K

Agricultural, farming, fishing, forestry and related products

03
2 awards£642K

Petroleum products, fuel, electricity and other sources of energy

09
2 awards£379.2M

Food, beverages, tobacco and related products

15
2 awards£24.3M

Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment

32
2 awards£289K

Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products

33
2 awards£507K

Recreational, cultural and sporting services

92
2 awards£41.7M

Clothing, footwear, luggage articles and accessories

18
1 award£0

Security, fire-fighting, police and defence equipment

35
1 award£3.2M

Musical instruments, sport goods, games, toys, handicraft, art materials and accessories

37
1 award£240K

Supporting and auxiliary transport services; travel agencies services

63
1 award£1

Public utilities

65
1 award£4.1M

Agricultural, forestry, horticultural, aquacultural and apicultural services

77
1 award£52K

Recent contracts

Latest Birmingham City Council contracts awarded

The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.

Support and Maintenance for Moving Traffic Contraventions Enforcement Cameras

YUNEX LIMITED · 2026-10-27

Support and Maintenance for a Clean Air Zone (CAZ)

YUNEX LIMITED · 2026-10-26

Birmingham Virtual School Educational Wellbeing Service

Randstad Solutions Limited · 2026-10-26

£713K

Clean Air Hospital

Global Action Plan · 2026-10-22

£93K

PBCS Roadmap Items October to December 2026

Brovanture Limited · 2026-10-21

£76K

Provision of a Framework Contract Management Solution (Works & Professional Services)

Built Intelligence Ltd · 2026-10-19

Civil Parking Enforcement (CPE)

Marston (Holdings) Limited · 2026-10-15

Provision of Dog Kennel Services

Bromsgrove District Council (trading as Worcestershire Regulatory Services) · 2026-10-08

£550K

BCC Devolution and Growth Policy Support

KPMG LLP · 2026-10-05

£150K

NHS Health checks campaign management and delivery 2026/27

MacMartin Limited · 2026-10-04

£70K

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What Birmingham City Council has coming up

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Most of it is in transport equipment, software & IT systems and health & social care.

6

tenders open now

Inviting bids today

140

contracts ending in 12 months

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34

planned procurements

Work this buyer has said it intends to tender

45

frameworks running

Routes to sell here without a full tender

3

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Market analysis

Bidding into Birmingham City Council — what to expect

Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.

50%

Awards to SMEs

37%

Top-5 supplier share

32%

Framework call-offs

64

Awards to social enterprises

Around 50% of Birmingham City Council’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises, and 64 have gone to voluntary, community or social enterprises. Around 32%of awards are call-offs from framework agreements — getting onto the right framework matters as much as the bid itself here.

Frequently asked

Common questions about selling to Birmingham City Council

How much does Birmingham City Council spend on procurement?

Birmingham City Council awarded 874 contracts totalling £6.7bn between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, working with 594 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £9.7M.

Who are Birmingham City Council's top suppliers?

The largest suppliers to Birmingham City Council by total award value are Equans Regeneration Limited, Mears Limited, Veolia Environmental Services (UK) Limited. The top five suppliers together hold 37% of contract value.

What does Birmingham City Council buy from suppliers?

Birmingham City Council's procurement is concentrated in health and social work services, transport equipment and auxiliary products to transportation, architectural, construction, engineering and inspection services, alongside specialist categories. See the full CPV breakdown below.

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Sources & methodology

How this profile is compiled

Analysed by ENKII · Updated 2026-11-08

This profile aggregates public-record procurement data published by the UK Government under the Open Government Licence v3.0. ENKII fetches, deduplicates, and aggregates source records; we don't edit the underlying facts.

Source portals

  • · Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk)
  • · Contracts Finder
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Source records remain subject to Open Government Licence v3.0 attribution. ENKII doesn't warrant accuracy beyond the source portals' own publication.

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