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What councils in England published about payments to this supplier. Every figure below is a lower bound and is written as one.
What is held for this supplier
At least £2,222,888 across 13 councils since 2013/14
This is a lower bound, not a total. It adds up only the councils and financial years listed under what contributed, and inside those only the payments each council chose to publish above its own publication threshold. Every council outside that list has paid this supplier an amount nobody has added up. So the figure is written "at least".
- Canonical id
- firmstep
- Councils that published a payment
- 13
- Payments published
- 153
- Latest year held
- 2026/27
What each council published, by year
| Council | 2013/14 | 2014/15 | 2015/16 | 2016/17 | 2017/18 | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 | 2021/22 | 2022/23 | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | 2025/26 | 2026/27 | All years held | Payments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barking & Dagenham | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £22k | n/a | £22k | 1 |
| Crawley | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £66k | n/a | n/a | £66k | 1 |
| Essex | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,450 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £3,450 | 1 |
| Merton | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £41k | £1,890 | n/a | £43k | 2 |
| Newcastle City Council | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £37k | £19k | n/a | n/a | n/a | £56k | 4 |
| North East Lincolnshire | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £47k | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £47k | 5 |
| Oadby & Wigston | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £94k | £50k | £50k | £194k | 5 |
| Rochford | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £15k | £77k | £50k | £115k | £16k | £136k | £22k | n/a | £431k | 63 |
| Sandwell | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £213k | £39k | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £252k | 10 |
| South Ribble | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £26k | £60k | £38k | £35k | n/a | n/a | £160k | 8 |
| Tower Hamlets | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £46k | £7,718 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £53k | 7 |
| Warrington | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £140k | £1,450 | n/a | £141k | 2 |
| Warwickshire | £10k | £295k | £45k | £128k | £129k | £114k | n/a | £33k | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | £753k | 44 |
These councils are not comparable with one another. They hold different numbers of years, publish above different thresholds and buy different things, so a larger figure here means more was published and read, not that one council spent more freely than another. An empty cell is a year not held, never a year of nothing.
The largest payments published
| Council | Date | Amount | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warrington | 7 Mar 2025 | £139,897 | n/a |
| Sandwell | 1 Oct 2019 | £131,781 | Housing & Communities |
| Warwickshire | 11 Apr 2014 | £119,500 | Projects |
| Warwickshire | 4 Feb 2015 | £75,000 | External Fees |
| Warwickshire | 24 Jul 2018 | £66,240 | External Fees |
| Crawley | 29 Aug 2024 | £65,795 | n/a |
| Oadby & Wigston | 21 May 2025 | £50,234 | Customer Services |
| Oadby & Wigston | 27 May 2026 | £50,234 | Customer Services |
| Oadby & Wigston | 12 Jun 2024 | £46,513 | Customer Services |
| Oadby & Wigston | 12 Jun 2024 | £46,513 | Customer Services |
| Merton | 23 Sept 2024 | £41,160 | 270000 Information Communication Technology |
| Warwickshire | 27 Mar 2015 | £40,000 | Consultancy |
| Warwickshire | 8 May 2015 | £40,000 | External Fees |
| South Ribble | 27 May 2022 | £38,310 | Premium Service: U.K. Customer Service Hub (Up to 15 users) Service Designer/Customer Portal/Staff |
| South Ribble | 28 Feb 2024 | £38,310 | Service Designer/Customer Portal/Staff Portal - Renewal charge, Payments - Renewal charge, Premium Service: UK Contact Us - Renew |
| Newcastle City Council | 29 Sept 2022 | £34,300 | Revenue Expenditure |
| Warwickshire | 25 Jul 2014 | £30,000 | Projects |
| South Ribble | 23 Apr 2021 | £26,037 | Annual Renewal of Service Designer/Customer Portal/Staff Portal and Payments for period 23/03/21 - 22/03/22 |
| North East Lincolnshire | 9 Sept 2020 | £25,500 | n/a |
| Sandwell | 1 Apr 2020 | £24,625 | Housing & Communities |
A description is the council's own wording on the row. A large single payment is often a scheduled settlement of many smaller invoices, and this site does not know which of these are.
Which councils and years contributed
Covers 13 councils and 14 financial years in the AI DOGE corpus. Councils and years not listed have not been ingested and are not zero.
Financial years held: 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24, 2024/25, 2025/26, 2026/27.
Councils that contributed: Barking & Dagenham, Crawley, Essex, Merton, Newcastle City Council, North East Lincolnshire, Oadby & Wigston, Rochford, Sandwell, South Ribble, Tower Hamlets, Warrington, Warwickshire.
A council that is not on this list has not been ingested for this supplier. That is a statement about this site's holdings and not about the council, and it is never a zero.
The council pages behind these figures
Every figure above was read off one council's own published payment file. Each council page carries what is held for it, when its files were last read, and its own publication threshold.
- Barking & Dagenham spending
- Crawley spending
- Essex spending
- Merton spending
- Newcastle City Council spending
- North East Lincolnshire spending
- Oadby & Wigston spending
- Rochford spending
- Sandwell spending
- South Ribble spending
- Tower Hamlets spending
- Warrington spending
- Warwickshire spending
- Every public body on this site
- Money moving between public bodies
How this page was built
A supplier gets a page of its own when ten or more councils published a payment to it, or when at least £10m was published to it in a single financial year. That cut is a size, not a judgement, and it is applied the same way to every supplier.
Names are matched across councils by a canonical form of the supplier string each council published. Two councils spelling the same company differently are joined; a company and its subsidiary are not, unless the councils wrote the same name. Payments a council withheld are counted in that council's own totals and are on no page as a name. A Companies House number, where one is shown, comes from this site's own name match and plays no part in joining councils' payments together.
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