The railway infrastructure firm’s top 20 suppliers spending charts reveal work with Carillion soared 28% in the year ending April 2015, with it capturing nearly 5% of total infrastructure spending.
The top 20 shared out £3.1bn between them compared to £3.2bn the year before and accounted for 45% of total supplier spend, down from 47% previously.
Signalling specialist Siemens Rail Automation climbed to second place after spending roared ahead 50% as major signalling upgrades went its way.
Balfour Beatty saw the fastest growth among the mainstream infrastructure contractors, despite dropping out of maintenance and renewals, as it jumped nearly a third to £241m from major new project work for the rail infrastructure group.
But this was not sufficient to beat BAM Nuttall, which earned £250m, ranking it as the third biggest supplier by work carried out.
Spending with top 20 suppliers |
Supplier name |
14/15 |
13/14 |
12/13 |
Service |
% of total |
Carillion Construction |
£361m |
£281m |
£180m |
Infrastructure |
4.82% |
Siemens Rail Automation |
£267m |
£177m |
N/A |
Signalling |
3.59% |
BAM Nuttall |
£250m |
£209m |
£94m |
Infrastructure |
3.34% |
Balfour Beatty Rail |
£241m |
£183m |
£100m |
Track infrastructure |
3.23% |
Eversheds |
231m* |
N/A |
N/A |
Business Consultancy |
3.08% |
Costain |
£215m |
£203m |
£184m |
Infrastructure |
2.88% |
British Energy Direct |
£189m |
N/A |
N/A |
Utilities Supply |
2.53% |
Atkins |
£176m |
£142m |
£120m |
Signalling, consultancy |
2.36% |
Amalgamated Construction |
£159m |
£160m |
£78m |
Infrastructure |
2.12% |
J Murphy & Sons |
£155m |
£150m |
£102m |
Infrastructure |
2.07% |
Amey-Colas |
£151m |
£182m |
£166m |
Track infrastructure |
2.01% |
Babcock Rail |
£149m |
£220m |
£177m |
Track infrastructure |
1.99% |
EDF Energy Customers |
£133m |
£341m |
£297m |
Utilities Supply |
1.78% |
Signalling Solutions |
£122m |
£139m |
£84m |
Signalling |
1.63% |
Tata Steel UK |
£98m |
£113m |
N/A |
Steel |
1.31% |
Amey Rail |
£96m |
N/A |
N/A |
Infrastructure |
1.28% |
Colas Rail |
£94m |
N/A |
N/A |
Infrastructure |
1.26% |
Geoffrey Osborne |
£90m |
N/A |
N/A |
Infrastructure |
1.20% |
DB Schenker Rail (UK) |
£87m |
£100m |
£98m |
Rail logistics |
1.16% |
VolkerFitzpatrick |
£76m |
£106m |
£88m |
Infrastructure |
1.01% |
*Much of this sum relates to buying various freight sites, rather than business consultancy. |
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