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Portsmouth City Council: spending & suppliers

Portsmouth City Council has £1,094,413,634 of tracked procurement spend across 219,546 published payments to 3,804 suppliers, from Sep 2024 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.

£1.1bn

tracked procurement spend

220k

payment transactions

3,804

suppliers paid

2

contracts expiring (12m)

Top suppliers by tracked spend

The largest recipients of Portsmouth City Council’s published payments.

1ENSIGN HIGHWAYS LTD£63m
2HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL£56m
3MOUNTJOY LIMITED£48m
4VSBW JOINT VENTURE£43m
5COMSERV (UK) LIMITED£40m

See all 3,804 suppliers

3,799 more suppliers, each incumbent’s payment history and run-rate, spend trends over time, and the 2 contracts expiring in the next 12 months — inside PSIP.

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Engage Portsmouth City Council before the tender

By the time a contract is advertised, the incumbent has often been in the buyer’s ear for months. Knowing what Portsmouth City Council spends, who holds their contracts and what is about to expire lets you build the relationship first — where bids are won. Inside PSIP you get the full supplier picture, incumbent payment histories and tender alerts matched to what you sell.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Portsmouth City Council spend?

Portsmouth City Council has £1,094,413,634 of tracked procurement spend across 219,546 published payments to 3,804 suppliers, covering Sep 2024 to Aug 2026. These figures come from Portsmouth City Council’s own transparency publications.

Who are Portsmouth City Council’s biggest suppliers?

The largest suppliers by tracked payment value are shown above. The complete supplier list — all 3,804 of them, with each supplier’s payment history and monthly run-rate — is available inside PSIP.

How many Portsmouth City Council contracts are expiring?

Portsmouth City Council has 2 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 Portsmouth City Council spending data come from?

From Portsmouth 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 to the Companies House register where it can identify a registered company. Every figure traces back to a source publication — nothing is estimated.

Figures aggregated from Portsmouth City Council’s official transparency publications, with suppliers matched to Companies House where we can identify a registered company. Covered period Sep 2024–Aug 2026. See the full data coverage.