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 Find a Tender. Sell2Wales has since merged into Find a Tender, so Welsh notices now publish there rather than on a separate Welsh portal. 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.
A note on the data: Welsh notices published before that merge arrived through Sell2Wales, and that feed stopped in March 2026, so counts spanning the changeover should be read with the transition in mind. Current Welsh activity flows through Find a Tender and is captured in full.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract for Provision of Young Carers Service | Health and social work services | £350,000 | 2026-10-06 |
| Contract for Tudno and Heol Emrys Re-Roofing and Associated Works | Erection and related works of roof frames and coverings | £550,000 | 2026-10-07 |
| Framework Agreement for the Supply, installation and maintenance of equipment and infrastructure for the control and management of traffic and related services | Construction work | £3,000,000 | 2026-10-05 |
| Contract for Renewal of Rooves and installation of PV panels | Solar panel roof-covering work | £55,000 | 2026-09-28 |
| Purchase of 50x laptops | Office and computing machinery, equipment and supplies except furniture and software packages | £80,000 | 2026-10-02 |
| 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.