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Bath and North East Somerset Council

  • ONS/GSS code: E06000022
  • Contracts Finder buyer: GB-CFS-52107
Councillors
59
8 parties
Planning
Not measured
No dated applications
Procurement
95
3 name-only notices
Payments
Not measured
Payment coverage stated below
Meetings
100
76 committees
Observed
2024-03-28 → 2026-12-30
290 source records held
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Investigate Bath and North East Somerset Council

How does this authority award public money?
Held
£50,204,630

98 published procurement notices name this authority as buyer. Published award values are contract values, not payments made.

Notices
98
With published value
96
Value not published
2
Where does the money actually go?
Not measured
Not measured

The published payments dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

Who wins contracts from this authority?
Held
71

Ranked on the values published in the award notices themselves.

Softcat plc
£6,500,000
Beard
£5,200,000
Comensura Limited
£5,000,000
Bray and Slaughter Limited
£3,646,325
Ultima Business Solutions Ltd
£3,633,664
Who runs the authority?
Held
59

59 councillor records held against the published identifier.

Liberal Democrats
38
Labour Party
6
Independents
5
Green Party
3
What is being planned and built?
Not measured
Not measured

The planning applications dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

What has the authority decided?
Held
100

100 meetings held against the published identifier. The recorded decisions dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

Meetings
100
Decisions
Not measured
Committees
76
Who and what is this council connected to?
Held
130

130 identified organisations and people. Planning applications and notices are evidence, not connections, and are counted separately.

Suppliers
71
Councillors
59
Records excluded as activity
0
§ 01

Public money

Held
Published award value
£50,204,630
Notices (buyer identifier)
95
Value not published
2
Observed
2024-03-28 → 2026-07-17

These are values published in contract notices, not payments made. Notices with no published value are counted separately and never treated as £0. 3 further notices name this authority as buyer but carry no buyer identifier (£311,752 published value); they are shown below but kept out of the identifier-proven totals.

Top suppliers

Largest published awards

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Actual published spending

The payment records dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

§ 02

Who runs the authority

Held
Liberal Democrats: 38 · Labour Party: 6 · Independents: 5 · Green Party: 3 · Unaligned: 2 · Independents for B&NES: 2 · Conservative Party: 2 · Unaligned Independent: 1

33 wards held for this authority, each with a published GSS code.

§ 03

What is being planned and built

Not measured

The planning applications dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

§ 04

Decisions and meetings

Held

The recorded decisions dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

§ 05

Elections

Not measured

The local election records dataset is only partly imported and this record is not inside the current import, so coverage has not been measured.

§ 06

Connections

Held

Connections are other identified organisations and people. Planning applications, notices and payments are this authority's own activity, so they are counted as evidence and never as connections.

  • Alan Hale
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Independents · Keynsham South
  • Alex Beaumont
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Liberal Democrats · Keynsham North
  • Alison Born
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Liberal Democrats · Widcombe & Lyncombe
  • Andy Wait
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Liberal Democrats · Keynsham East
  • Ann Morgan
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Independents · High Littleton
  • Anna Box
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Liberal Democrats · Chew Valley
  • Bharat Pankhania
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Unaligned · Combe Down
  • Chris Dando
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Labour Party · Radstock
  • Chris Warren
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Independents for B&NES · Saltford
  • Colin Blackburn
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Independents · Westmoreland
  • David Biddleston
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Labour Party · Keynsham South
  • David Harding
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Liberal Democrats · Chew Valley
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Cross-domain timeline

§ 08

About this evidence

Coverage, sources and identifiers

Records held

  • Procurement notices98
  • Councillors59
  • Meetings100
  • Wards33
  • Total source records290

0 internal graph edges derive from these records. They are not evidence and are excluded from every total on this page.

Provenance

  • Procurement
    Publisher: Contracts Finder
    95 records · observed 2024-03-28 → 2026-07-17

    Award values are the values published in the notice. They are not payments made.

    Example source record ↗
  • Procurement
    Publisher: Find a Tender
    3 records · observed 2026-04-01 → 2026-05-06

    Award values are the values published in the notice. They are not payments made.

    Example source record ↗

Identity

  • ONS/GSS codeE06000022Published by ONS / Local authority register
  • Contracts Finder buyerGB-CFS-52107Contracts Finder buyer record, exact name match
  • Folio referencebanes-councilFolio internal reference