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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-53257
Councillors
70
5 parties
Planning
50
2026-07-16 → 2026-07-28
Procurement
403
2 name-only notices
Payments
432,523
2020-01-02 → 2026-05-29
Meetings
Publisher blocked
Committee coverage stated below
Observed
2022-03-02 → 2026-07-31
433,082 source records held
Official website ↗

Investigate Bristol City Council

How does this authority award public money?
Held
£1,040,180,482

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

Notices
405
With published value
301
Value not published
104
Where does the money actually go?
Held
£5,915,701,303

432,523 published payment lines to 8,547 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)
£133,949,635
Willmott Dixon Construction Limited
£121,730,349
Avon Pension Fund
£109,390,085
ETM Contractors Ltd
£59,990,959
Carlisle Staffing PLC T/A Guidant Global
£58,466,342
Who wins contracts from this authority?
Held
184

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
Lorne Stewart Plc
£40,000,000
CF Contact and Support Services Ltd
£27,300,000
Elim Housing Association
£26,909,370
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
254

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

Suppliers
184
Councillors
70
Records excluded as activity
50
§ 01

Public money

Held
Published award value
£1,040,180,482
Notices (buyer identifier)
403
Value not published
104
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.

432,523 payment lines, £5,915,701,303 to 8,547 named recipients, observed 2020-01-02 → 2026-05-29. Payments are separate from contract award values and are never combined with them.

Largest recipients by published value
Bristol Pfi Ltd (Unitary Charges Only)£133,949,635 · 503 payments
Willmott Dixon Construction Limited£121,730,349 · 175 payments
Avon Pension Fund£109,390,085 · 4 payments
ETM Contractors Ltd£59,990,959 · 2,956 payments
Carlisle Staffing PLC T/A Guidant Global£58,466,342 · 31,420 payments
Stepnell LTD£56,808,944 · 315 payments
Invesis UK Limited T/A Bristol Schools Limited£52,754,044 · 1,746 payments
Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICB£52,181,591 · 174 payments
South Gloucestershire Council (Main Order Account)£50,182,343 · 328 payments
Ameresco Limited£50,122,641 · 1,621 payments
Where the money is spent, as the council labels it
New Construction£407,270,873 · 9,108 payments
Conversion, Renovation & Improvement£372,639,865 · 27,533 payments
TPP - Other£264,518,763 · 4,798 payments
TPP - Placement Residential£166,568,575 · 9,197 payments
External Professional Fees£153,400,488 · 8,261 payments
Payments to BCC-Maintained Schools/Children�s Centres£147,209,696 · 5,591 payments
Pension Contributions£145,887,620 · 5 payments
TPP - Grants£143,546,364 · 15,826 payments
TPP - Payments to Health Authorities£142,465,154 · 755 payments
TPP - Placement Foster Care Agency£123,254,870 · 20,007 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 notices405
  • Payments432,523
  • Planning applications50
  • Councillors70
  • Wards34
  • Total source records433,082

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
    250 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
    432,523 records · observed 2020-01-02 → 2026-05-29 · 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-53257Contracts Finder buyer record, exact name match
  • Folio referencebristol-city-councilFolio internal reference