Council spend

Part of: Local government and transparency code

We publish data about council spending and procurement, as required by the Local Government Transparency Code 2015.

This includes:

  • contracts and framework agreements over £5,000
  • invitations to tender and requests for quotation over £5,000
  • payments to suppliers and card spend
  • purchase orders over £5,000
  • annual payment performance data

All files are free to use under the Open Government Licence.

Contracts register

Contracts, framework agreements or other commissioned expenditure over £5,000.

Contract register

2025-26

Title XLSX CSV
Contracts register 2025-26 Q4 Jan-Mar Jan-Mar
Contracts register 2025-26 Q3 Oct-Dec Oct-Dec
Contracts register 2025-26 Q2 Jul-Sep Jul-Sep
Contracts register 2025-26 Q1 Apr-Jun Apr-Jun

2024–25

Title XLSX CSV
Contracts register 2024-25 Q4 Jan-Mar Jan-Mar
Contracts register 2024-25 Q3 Oct-Dec Oct-Dec
Contracts register 2024-25 Q2  Jul-Sep Jul-Sep
Contracts register 2024-25 Q1  Apr-Jun Apr-Jun

2023–24

Title XLSX CSV
Contracts register 2023-24 Q4 Jan-Mar  Jan-Mar
Contracts register 2023-24 Q3  Oct-Dec Oct-Dec
Contracts register 2023-24 Q2 Jul-Sep Jul-Sep
Contracts register 2023-24 Q1 Apr-Jun Apr-Jun

2022-23

Title XLSX CSV
Contracts register 2022-23 Q4 Jan-Mar Jan-Mar
Contracts register 2022-23 Q3 Oct-Dec Oct-Dec
Contracts register 2022-23 Q2 Jul-Sep Jul-Sep
Contracts register 2022-23 Q1  Apr-Jun Apr-Jun

2021-22

Title XLSX CSV
Contracts register 2021-22 Q4 Jan-Mar Jan-Mar
Contracts register 2021-22 Q3 Oct-Dec Oct-Dec
Contracts register 2021-22 Q2 Jul-Sep Jul-Sep
Contracts register 2021-22 Q1 Apr-Jun Apr-Jun

2021-22

Title XLSX CSV
Contracts register 2020-21 Q4 Jan-Mar Jan-Mar
Contracts register 2020-21 Q3 Oct-Dec Oct-Dec
Contracts register 2020-21 Q2 Jul-Sep Jul-Sep
Contracts register 2020-21 Q1  Apr-Jun Apr-Jun

Contracts Register archive

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Invitations to tender

Open invitations to tender and requests for quotation valued over £5,000.

Invitations to tender

2025 - 26

Title XLSX CSV
Invitations to tender 2025-26 Q4 Jan-Mar Jan-Mar
Invitations to tender 2025-26 Q3 Oct-Dec Oct-Dec
Invitations to tender 2025-26 Q2 Jul-Sep Jul-Sep
Invitations to tender 2025-26 Q1 Apr-Jun Apr-Jun

2024 - 25

Title XLSX CSV
Invitations to tender 2024-25 Q4 Jan-Mar Jan-Mar
Invitations to tender 2024-25 Q3  Oct-Dec Oct-Dec
Invitations to tender 2024-25 Q2 Jul-Sep Jul-Sep
Invitations to tender 2024-25 Q1 Apr-Jun Apr-Jun

2023 - 24

Title XLSX CSV
Invitations to tender 2023-24 Q4 (Jan-Mar) (Jan-Mar)
Invitations to tender 2023-24 Q3  (Oct-Dec) (Oct-Dec)
Invitations to tender 2023-24 Q2 (Jul-Sep) (Jul-Sep)
Invitations to tender 2023-24 Q1 (Apr-Jun) (Apr-Jun)

2022 - 23

Title XLSX CSV
Invitations to tender 2022-23 Q4 (Jan-Mar) (Jan-Mar)
Invitations to tender 2022-23 Q3 (Oct-Dec) (Oct-Dec)
Invitations to tender 2022-23 Q2 (Jul-Sep) (Jul-Sep)
Invitations to tender 2022-23 Q1 (Apr-Jun) (Apr-Jun)

2021 - 22

Title XLSX CSV
Invitations to tender 2021-22 Q4 (Jan-Mar) (Jan-Mar)
Invitations to tender 2021-22 Q3 (Oct-Dec) (Oct-Dec)
Invitations to tender 2021-22 Q2 (Jul-Sep) (Jul-Sep)
Invitations to tender 2021-22 Q1 (Apr-Jun) (Apr-Jun)

2020 -21

Title XLSX CSV
Invitations to tender 2020-21 Q4 (Jan-Mar) (Jan-Mar)
Invitations to tender 2020-21 Q3 (Oct-Dec) (Oct-Dec)
Invitations to tender 2020-21 Q2 (Jul-Sep) (Jul-Sep)
Invitations to tender 2020-21 Q1 (Apr-Jun) (Apr-Jun)

Previous years archives

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More opportunities

For live tenders, visit The Chest and filter by Trafford Council.

Supplier spend

Payments to suppliers, including government procurement card spend.

Due to a previous finance system, data for financial years before 2024-25 are provided as a single file per month within each ZIP file.

Supplier spend

2025-26

Title File format
Trafford supplier spend 2025-26 2025-26
Trafford card spend 2025-26 2025-26

Previous years

Title File format
Trafford Supplier Spend 2024-25
Trafford Card Spend 2024-25
Previous years' payments Archive
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Purchase orders

Purchase orders over £5,000.

Latest dataset

Purchase order data may overlap with supplier spend and contracts data. See Open data notes for more detail.

Payment performance

Data on how quickly we pay suppliers, published under Regulation 113(7) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Trafford Council annual payment performance data
Financial Year Proportion of valid and undisputed invoices paid within 30 days in accordance with regulation 113 The amount of interest paid to suppliers due to a breach of the requirement in regulation 113 The total amount of interest that the contracting authority was liable to (whether or not paid and whether under any statutory or other requirement), due to a breach of Regulation 113 *Number of invoices not paid within 30 days (Not mandatory requirement to publish requested as part of the FOIR)
2017/18 91.43% £0.00 £50,817.20 2891
2018/19 87.62% £0.00 £57,127.96 4238
2019/20 94.98% £0.00 £35,507.02 1657
2020/21 95.89% £0.00 £26,084.43 1136
2021/22 95.23% £0.00 £21,469.24 1298
2022/23 96.43% £0.00 £13,645.08 1143
2023/24 96.63% £0.00 £13,456.14 1096
2024/25 94.60% £0.00 £13,618.71 1960

We also publish our transparency data for annual payment performance on data.gov.uk in line with the regulations.