Buyer spend lookup

UK public bodies are required to publish their payments to suppliers — councils under the Local Government Transparency Code (payments over £500) and central government under HM Treasury guidance (spend over £25,000). This tool aggregates those official publications so you can pick a covered buyer and instantly see its total tracked spend, its largest suppliers and how many of its contracts are due to expire.

Every buyer shown here has its published spending data ingested, with suppliers matched to the Companies House register where we can identify them as registered companies. The list covers central government departments and a growing set of local authorities, and it grows as bodies are added. The full coverage list — including how current each body is — is on the coverage page.

Yes. Looking up a buyer to see its headline spend, top suppliers and expiring-contract count is free and needs no sign-up. The fuller picture — the complete supplier list, each incumbent’s payment history, spend trends over time and which specific contracts are expiring — is inside PSIP.

From the buyers themselves. PSIP ingests each public body’s official transparency publications, normalises the inconsistent formats and matches suppliers to Companies House where it can identify a registered company. Where we have recorded a licence for a publisher’s files, it is almost always the Open Government Licence; for most sources we have not recorded one. Every figure traces back to a source publication — nothing is estimated or invented.

Because the supplier who engages a buyer before the tender is advertised wins far more often. Seeing what a buyer spends, who currently holds their contracts and what is about to expire lets you target the right buyers and time your approach — instead of only reacting once a notice is published.