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Bristol City Council

  • ONS/GSS code: E06000023
  • Procurement buyer identifier: GB-FTS-40229
  • Procurement buyer identifier: GB-FTS-183225
  • Procurement buyer identifier: GB-FTS-4844
  • Procurement buyer identifier: GB-FTS-1691
  • Procurement buyer (PPON): PWXH-3837-PDTD
  • Contracts Finder buyer: GB-CFS-107820
Councillors
70
5 parties
Planning
50
2026-07-16 → 2026-07-28
Procurement
653
2 name-only notices
Payments
444,955
2020-01-02 → 2026-07-31
Meetings
Publisher blocked
Committee coverage stated below
Observed
2022-03-02 → 2026-07-31
445,764 source records held
Official website ↗

Investigate Bristol City Council

How does this authority award public money?
Held
£1,680,328,468

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

Notices
655
With published value
545
Value not published
110
Where does the money actually go?
Held
£6,182,689,484

444,955 published payment lines to 8,695 named suppliers. These are payments the authority reports making, not contract values, and cover only spend above the published reporting threshold.

Bristol Pfi Ltd (Unitary Charges Only)
£137,815,180
Willmott Dixon Construction Limited
£123,186,526
Avon Pension Fund
£109,390,085
ETM Contractors Ltd
£62,757,900
Stepnell LTD
£61,196,230
Who wins contracts from this authority?
Held
302

Ranked on the values published in the award notices themselves.

Eurovia Infrastructure Limited
£288,000,000
Compass Contract Services (UK) Limited trading as Restaurant Ass
£54,843,447
D R Jones Yeovil Ltd
£40,050,000
CF Contact and Support Services Ltd
£27,300,000
DAWSON HOUSING LIMITED
£26,730,931
Who runs the authority?
Held
70

70 councillor records held against the published identifier.

Green
34
Labour
19
Liberal Democrat
9
Conservative
7
What is being planned and built?
Held
50

50 planning applications held against the published identifier.

Undecided
47
Permitted
3
What has the authority decided?
Not measured
Not measured

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

Meetings
Not measured
Decisions
Not measured
Committees
Not measured
Who and what is this council connected to?
Held
372

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

Suppliers
302
Councillors
70
Records excluded as activity
50
§ 01

Public money

Held
Published award value
£1,680,328,468
Notices (buyer identifier)
653
Value not published
110
Observed
2022-03-02 → 2026-07-31

These are values published in contract notices, not payments made. Notices with no published value are counted separately and never treated as £0. 2 further notices name this authority as buyer but carry no buyer identifier (£40,000 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

Published payments only (Local Government Transparency Code threshold); not total council expenditure.

444,955 payment lines, £6,182,689,484 to 8,695 named recipients, observed 2020-01-02 → 2026-07-31. Payments are separate from contract award values and are never combined with them.

Largest recipients by published value
Bristol Pfi Ltd (Unitary Charges Only)£137,815,180 · 518 payments
Willmott Dixon Construction Limited£123,186,526 · 188 payments
Avon Pension Fund£109,390,085 · 4 payments
ETM Contractors Ltd£62,757,900 · 3,052 payments
Stepnell LTD£61,196,230 · 333 payments
Carlisle Staffing PLC T/A Guidant Global£58,466,342 · 31,420 payments
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB£56,302,193 · 176 payments
Invesis UK Limited T/A Bristol Schools Limited£54,305,520 · 1,815 payments
Ameresco Limited£53,537,890 · 1,657 payments
South Gloucestershire Council (Main Order Account)£50,296,892 · 333 payments
Where the money is spent, as the council labels it
New Construction£422,126,608 · 9,312 payments
Conversion, Renovation & Improvement£386,887,436 · 28,717 payments
TPP - Other£270,974,038 · 4,957 payments
TPP - Placement Residential£176,157,638 · 9,584 payments
External Professional Fees£155,267,678 · 8,457 payments
Payments to BCC-Maintained Schools/Children�s Centres£153,900,878 · 5,748 payments
TPP - Grants£149,004,131 · 16,342 payments
TPP - Payments to Health Authorities£147,761,685 · 764 payments
Pension Contributions£145,887,620 · 5 payments
TPP - Placement Foster Care Agency£128,094,387 · 20,979 payments

Most recent payments

0 of these payment lines name a recipient with a published identifier; the rest are matched on the published name only.

§ 02

Who runs the authority

Held

Publisher lists current councillors only; no historic membership is published in this dataset.

Green: 34 · Labour: 19 · Liberal Democrat: 9 · Conservative: 7 · Independent: 1

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

§ 03

What is being planned and built

Held

50 applications held, observed 2026-07-16 → 2026-07-28. This is the window Folio has imported, not this authority's complete planning history.

Undecided
47
Permitted
3
  • Bristol/26/13195/VD
    5 Day Notice: T1 - Beech - Fell. (TPO 074)
    Undecided · 2026-07-28
  • Bristol/26/13137/VC
    Pear tree - Fell.
    Undecided · 2026-07-23
  • Bristol/26/13157/VD
    5 Day Notice: T1 - Laburnum - Fell.
    Undecided · 2026-07-23
  • Bristol/26/13143/VC
    T1 London Plane - Reduce lateral branches by 3m over road/car park, crown lift to 6m. T2 Lime, T3 London Plane, T4 Lime & T5 Lime - Reduce lateral branches by 2-3m over road/car park, crown lift to 6m. T6 Lime - Reduce crown by up to 2m, raise crown to 6m.
    Undecided · 2026-07-23
  • Bristol/26/13141/VC
    T1 - Monterey Pine - Remove one limb with recent failure back to main trunk.
    Undecided · 2026-07-23
  • Bristol/26/13126/VC
    Yew x 2 - Crown raise to 3m and reduce lower branches by 2.5m.
    Undecided · 2026-07-23
  • Bristol/26/13108/VC
    T1 - Silver birch - Crown reduce height and spread by 1-1.5m not beyond previous reduction points. T2 - Silver birch - Crown reduce height and spread by 1-1.5m not beyond previous reduction points.
    Undecided · 2026-07-22
  • Bristol/26/13109/VC
    Holly - Fell.
    Undecided · 2026-07-22
§ 04

Decisions and meetings

Not measured

Folio could not read meetings and decisions from Bristol City Council: Modern.gov web service returned HTTP 403 to identified requests. Publisher edge protection blocks all machine-readable paths on this host, including robots.txt.

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

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 (50 such records excluded here).

  • Abdul Malik
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Green · Ashley
  • Abi Finch
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Green · St George Central
  • Al Al-Maghrabi
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Green · Frome Vale
  • Andrew Brown
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Liberal Democrat · Hengrove & Whitchurch Park
  • Andrew Varney
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Liberal Democrat · Brislington West
  • Ani Townsend
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Green · Central
  • Bador Uddin
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Conservative · Henbury & Brentry
  • Barry Parsons
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Green · Easton
  • Cam Hayward
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Green · Knowle
  • Cara Lavan
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Green · St George Central
  • Carole Johnson
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Labour · Horfield
  • Caroline Gooch
    Listed on this authority's published register of members
    Councillor
    Liberal Democrat · Westbury-on-Trym & Henleaze
§ 07

Cross-domain timeline

§ 08

About this evidence

Coverage, sources and identifiers

Records held

  • Procurement notices655
  • Payments444,955
  • Planning applications50
  • Councillors70
  • Wards34
  • Total source records445,764

50 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
    500 records · observed 2022-03-02 → 2026-07-23

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

    Example source record ↗
  • Procurement
    Publisher: Find a Tender
    155 records · observed 2026-04-01 → 2026-07-31

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

    Example source record ↗
  • Planning
    Publisher: PlanIt (aggregating Bristol City Council)
    Dataset: UK Local Authorities
    50 records · observed 2026-07-16 → 2026-07-28 · retrieved 2026-07-30

    This is the window Folio has imported, not the authority's complete planning history.

    Example source record ↗
  • Spending
    Publisher: Bristol City Council
    444,955 records · observed 2020-01-02 → 2026-07-31 · retrieved 2026-08-10

    Published payments only (Local Government Transparency Code threshold); not total council expenditure.

    Example source record ↗

Identity

  • ONS/GSS codeE06000023Published by ONS / Local authority register
  • Procurement buyer identifierGB-FTS-40229Find a Tender buyer record, exact name match
  • Procurement buyer identifierGB-FTS-183225Find a Tender buyer record, exact name match
  • Procurement buyer identifierGB-FTS-4844Find a Tender buyer record, exact name match
  • Procurement buyer identifierGB-FTS-1691Find a Tender buyer record, exact name match
  • Procurement buyer (PPON)PWXH-3837-PDTDFind a Tender buyer record, exact name match
  • Contracts Finder buyerGB-CFS-107820Contracts Finder buyer record, exact name match
  • Folio referencebristol-city-councilFolio internal reference