Official transparency data · current
Manchester City Council: spending & suppliers
Manchester City Council has £6,318,002,754 of tracked procurement spend across 336,672 published payments to 12,437 suppliers, from Apr 2020 to Aug 2026.
Amounts follow each publisher’s own basis — some publish figures including VAT, others excluding it — so totals are not directly comparable between buyers.
£6.3bn
tracked procurement spend
337k
payment transactions
12,437
suppliers paid
37
contracts expiring (12m)
Top suppliers by tracked spend
The largest recipients of Manchester City Council’s published payments.
See all 12,437 suppliers
12,432 more suppliers, each incumbent’s payment history and run-rate, spend trends over time, and the 37 contracts expiring in the next 12 months — inside PSIP.
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Frequently asked questions
How much does Manchester City Council spend?
Manchester City Council has £6,318,002,754 of tracked procurement spend across 336,672 published payments to 12,437 suppliers, covering Apr 2020 to Aug 2026. These figures come from Manchester City Council’s own transparency publications under the Open Government Licence.
Who are Manchester City Council’s biggest suppliers?
The largest suppliers by tracked payment value are shown above. The complete supplier list — all 12,437 of them, with each supplier’s full payment history and monthly run-rate — is available inside PSIP.
How many Manchester City Council contracts are expiring?
Manchester City Council has 37 contracts with an end date in the next 12 months in our records. Which specific contracts, who holds them and what they are worth is inside PSIP — the moment a contract nears expiry is the moment to engage the buyer.
Where does this Manchester City Council spending data come from?
From Manchester City Council itself. UK public bodies are required to publish their payments to suppliers. PSIP ingests those official publications, normalises the formats and matches suppliers against the Companies House register, so every figure traces back to a source publication — nothing is estimated.
Figures aggregated from Manchester City Council’s official transparency publications under the Open Government Licence, supplier-matched to Companies House. Covered period Apr 2020–Aug 2026. See the full data coverage.