Recorded contract rows
2,326Including 1,118 with a listed expiry before 6 November 2026. An old date does not prove a contract actually ended: extensions or data errors may not be recorded.
Does council contracting support local businesses?
A supplied workbook gives a starting point for examining contracts and supplier postcodes. It does not show where every pound is spent or where every employee lives.
Workbook analysed 6 November 2026 · source and date of the extract still to be confirmed with the council.
What the workbook contains
Annual values are incomplete
1,122Rows have no annual value. The remaining 1,204 include zero values. Missing does not mean zero.
Recorded annual values
£414.6mSum of non-empty annual-value cells in this workbook. It is not a verified total of actual annual payments.
Share attached to PO1–PO6 postcodes
17.3%About £71.8m of the recorded annual values. This is a share of the available values, not all council funding or economic activity.
Of 413 rows with a PO1–PO6 postcode, 205 have no annual value. The workbook labels the field “Postcode”; it does not explain whether this is a registered office, trading address or another address. PO1–PO6 is a postcode approximation, not an exact council boundary.
Supplier postcode does not tell us where work occurs, where staff live or where subcontractors spend money. The workbook mixes historic and potentially current records, and its creation and FOI reference are not independently established here. It cannot establish that the rest of the council’s money “leaks” out of Portsmouth.
What we do not yet know
- The source, extract date, meaning and coverage of the workbook and its postcode and annual-value columns.
- How many contracts are currently active, the amount actually paid and the values missing from the extract.
- How much work, employment and subcontracting reaches Portsmouth residents and firms.
- Whether comparable data from other councils would give a fair benchmark.
What could change?
Explore an earlier bidding pipeline, supplier briefings, suitable smaller lots and transparent reporting. These are options for appraisal, subject to competition, value for money and legal advice. No award or council commitment is implied.
Read the detailed local procurement proposal →Sources, method and corrections
Analysis of the supplied workbook: Sheet1, 2,326 data rows. Values are summed only where a number is present; PO1–PO6 is identified from the workbook postcode field.
Original-file checksum (SHA-256)
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The original workbook is not published here while provenance and reuse terms are checked.
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Next check: confirm the source and date with the council, reconcile missing values and compare with actual payments. No response from the council has yet been obtained for this analysis.