About the City and County of Swansea
The City and County of Swansea is the unitary authority for Swansea and the Gower peninsula. It appears in notice data with an ampersand in its name, which is worth knowing because it defeats a naive text search for the spelled out form.
Swansea combines a dense urban core, a substantial port and industrial legacy, and a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the Gower, which produces an unusually wide procurement spread for an authority of its size. It is also a partner in the Swansea Bay City Deal, a multi partner regeneration programme covering digital infrastructure, energy, life science and skills projects across south west Wales, which generates procurement activity that runs through several partner bodies rather than the council alone.
Recent awards by the City and County of Swansea
Notices are published on Sell2Wales, with above threshold activity also appearing on Find a Tender. The award history is broad and shows a healthy distinct supplier count, consistent with an authority that runs a large number of moderate value contracts rather than concentrating spend.
As with all Welsh buyers in this dataset, coverage since March 2026 is affected by the unreliability of the Sell2Wales upstream feed, so the counts here understate recent activity. We would rather record the limitation than present a figure that looks complete and is not.
Frameworks the City and County of Swansea uses
Welsh collaborative arrangements provide the main routes: Welsh Government and National Procurement Service frameworks for corporate and common categories, and the Welsh Procurement Alliance for construction, housing and maintenance. UK wide Crown Commercial Service agreements are used where no Welsh equivalent applies.
The council also operates its own frameworks for recurring works and professional services. For City Deal projects the procurement route depends on which partner is contracting, so suppliers interested in that programme should identify the lead body for the specific project rather than assuming the council is buying.
Common CPVs procured by the City and County of Swansea
Division 45, construction work, is the leading division, reflecting the city centre regeneration programme, school estate work and highways. Division 85, health and social work services, covers commissioned adult and children's social care. Division 34, transport equipment, is more prominent here than for most councils and reflects fleet renewal across refuse, highways and social care transport. Division 90 covers waste, cleaning and environmental services, and division 79 business services. A council with vehicles high in its profile is usually one running large in house operational services rather than outsourcing them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Swansea Bay City Deal?
It is a long term investment programme covering Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, funded jointly by the UK and Welsh governments alongside local partners, and covering projects in digital infrastructure, energy, life science, skills and regeneration. Procurement for individual projects is run by whichever partner leads that project, so suppliers should track the project rather than the programme.
Why is the council name written with an ampersand?
Because that is how it appears in the published notice data. The legal name is the City and County of Swansea, and both forms circulate. Suppliers searching notice archives should try both, since a search for the spelled out form will miss records stored with the ampersand and vice versa.
Does the council run its own waste and fleet operations?
The prominence of transport equipment and environmental services categories in its notice profile is consistent with substantial in house operational delivery rather than fully outsourced services. For suppliers this shifts the opportunity from service contracts towards vehicles, plant, parts, maintenance and consumables.
How do Welsh social value requirements affect bids here?
The Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act places socially responsible procurement duties on Welsh contracting authorities, covering fair work, worker wellbeing and ethical supply chains. In practice this appears as scored questions on employment practices, payment of the real living wage and supply chain due diligence. Answers that describe a policy without evidence of application tend to score poorly.
| Title | CPV category | Value | Award date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Framework Agreement for the Supply & delivery of Kitchen Units and Associated Products | Kitchen furniture and equipment | £1,300,000 | 2026-09-17 |
| Contract for Supply and Install Control panel and commissioning of whole BMS and Interlinking plant room components | Mechanical installations | £20,000 | 2026-08-27 |
| Contract for Supply and Installation of new windows and doors | Installation of door and window frames | £20,000 | 2026-09-01 |
| Contract for the Supply of 3 x Double Cab Pick Ups with High Roof Canopies | |||
| Contract for the replacement of Pitched Roofing and new Solar Panels at Llwyn Helyg and Llwyn Derw, Garden City, Fforest-Fach, Phase 2 | Construction work | £240,000 | 2026-09-04 |
| Data as of 09 Aug 2026 | |||
Frequently asked questions
What is the Swansea Bay City Deal?
It is a long term investment programme covering Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire, funded jointly by the UK and Welsh governments alongside local partners, and covering projects in digital infrastructure, energy, life science, skills and regeneration. Procurement for individual projects is run by whichever partner leads that project, so suppliers should track the project rather than the programme.
Why is the council name written with an ampersand?
Because that is how it appears in the published notice data. The legal name is the City and County of Swansea, and both forms circulate. Suppliers searching notice archives should try both, since a search for the spelled out form will miss records stored with the ampersand and vice versa.
Does the council run its own waste and fleet operations?
The prominence of transport equipment and environmental services categories in its notice profile is consistent with substantial in house operational delivery rather than fully outsourced services. For suppliers this shifts the opportunity from service contracts towards vehicles, plant, parts, maintenance and consumables.
How do Welsh social value requirements affect bids here?
The Social Partnership and Public Procurement (Wales) Act places socially responsible procurement duties on Welsh contracting authorities, covering fair work, worker wellbeing and ethical supply chains. In practice this appears as scored questions on employment practices, payment of the real living wage and supply chain due diligence. Answers that describe a policy without evidence of application tend to score poorly.