Top suppliers
Top suppliers to Southampton City Council
Top-five suppliers hold 44% of contract value — a concentrated market.
Procurement categories
What Southampton City Council buys
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV) breakdown of contracts awarded over the reporting period.
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Latest Southampton City Council contracts awarded
The most recently published award notices on Find a Tender and Contracts Finder.
Executive Search for an Executive Director of Children & Learning
Tile Hill Interim & Executive Ltd · 2026-11-05
£22K
Green Lane Campus - Installation of sub-meters
RIGFONE ELECTRICS LIMITED · 2026-11-01
£48K
Accounts /Finance Assistant Level 2 apprenticeship
Let Me Play · 2026-11-01
£42K
Refresh F5 BIGIP Loadbalancers
CDW Limited · 2026-10-28
£134K
Gamification
STREET TAG LIMITED · 2026-10-26
£25K
Housing & Property Management Level 4 apprenticeships
Total Training Provision · 2026-10-22
£120K
Housing & Property Management Level 4 apprenticeships
Kingdom Services Group Limited · 2026-10-22
£90K
Real Time Passenger Information Hardware Units
J M W SYSTEMS LIMITED · 2026-10-19
Lot 1 - Care Support and Community Outreach
Acorn Care Solutions Ltd · 2026-10-11
Lot 2 - Specialist Playschemes and Targeted Short Breaks
Acorn Care Solutions Ltd · 2026-10-11
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frameworks running
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Market analysis
Bidding into Southampton City Council — what to expect
Supplier concentration and timing patterns that shape SME bid strategy.
61%
Awards to SMEs
44%
Top-5 supplier share
23%
Framework call-offs
72
Awards to social enterprises
Around 61% of Southampton City Council’s classified awards go to small and medium-sized enterprises, and 72 have gone to voluntary, community or social enterprises. Around 23%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 Southampton City Council
How much does Southampton City Council spend on procurement?
Southampton City Council awarded 452 contracts totalling £767.4M between 2023-11-08 and 2026-11-08, working with 323 unique suppliers. Average contract value is £1.8M.
Who are Southampton City Council's top suppliers?
The largest suppliers to Southampton City Council by total award value are Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Limited (BBCE), Travis Perkins Plc, Trident Maintenance Services Ltd. The top five suppliers together hold 44% of contract value.
What does Southampton City Council buy from suppliers?
Southampton City Council's procurement is concentrated in construction work, transport services (excl. waste transport), business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security, 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.
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