At a glance · for buyers and watchdogs
AINSCOUGH CRANE HIRE LTD has won £4.5m across 7 public-sector buyers, with 7 live contracts. No active Companies House risk flags.
Why: top buyer NORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP LIMITED at 67% · 0 active risk flags · 0 modifications.
ESG & policies vault · 0/5
Key governance & sustainability policies. Published documents link out; missing ones are greyed.
Capabilities
What this supplier does, where they sit, who they sell to.
Extracted automatically from ainscough.co.uk on Jul 2026. Not independently verified — treat as the supplier’s own marketing claims.
Case studies
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No case studies yet
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Buyer references
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No buyer references yet
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Accreditations & memberships
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No accreditations recorded
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KPI performance
Delivery, budget and satisfaction scores reported quarterly by buyers.
No verified KPI scores yet
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Contracts · 7 live · 1 historic
Pulled from Contracts Finder & Find a Tender. Most recent first.
| Title | Buyer | CPV | Awarded | Value | Term | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP LIMITED | 45510000 | 01 Jan 2025 | £482k | 7 yrs | Live | |
| NORTHUMBRIAN WATER GROUP LIMITED | 45510000 | 01 Jan 2025 | £2.5m | 7 yrs | Live | |
| Environment Agency | 45510000 | 01 Jul 2024 | £1.5m | 3 yrs | Live | |
| L&Q Construction | 42414000 | 12 Nov 2018 | — | 2 yrs | Closed | |
| DEFRA | 42414000 | — | — | — | Live | |
| Bridgend County Borough Council | 43000000 | — | — | — | Live | |
| THAMES WATER UTILITIES LIMITED | 45510000 | — | — | — | Live | |
| NORTHUMBRIAN WATER LIMITED | — | — | — | — | Live |
Top buyers · 7 buyers · top 3 = 100%
Share of awarded value. Concentration fires above 40% for any single buyer.
Geography
Distribution of awarded value by buyer region.
Peers
Suppliers with overlapping CPVs & buyers (last 24m). AINSCOUGH CRANE HIRE LTD highlighted.
| Supplier | SME? | Awarded · 24m | Contracts |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | £170.0m | 2 | |
| No | £117.8m | 1 | |
| No | £95.0m | 3 | |
| No | £43.5m | 2 | |
| Yes | £16.0m | 10 | |
AC AINSCOUGH CRANE HIRE LTD | No | — | — |
Red flags · 0 active
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Compliance scorecard
Derived from Companies House filings — not a full supplier-assurance check.
Modifications
Variations to awarded contracts logged under Procurement Act 2023 s.74.
No modifications recorded
No published contract variations for this supplier. Modification notices appear here as they are issued under the Procurement Act 2023.
News mentions
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No news mentions found
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Companies House
Live sync — registered details, directors, PSC and SIC codes.
Registered details
- Company no.
- 03245223
- Status
- Active
- Type
- Private limited
- Incorporated
- 03 Sept 1996
- Reg. office
- Bradley Hall, Bradley Lane Standish, Wigan, Lancashire, WN6 0XQ
- SIC codes
- 43999
- Last accounts
- 26 Sept 2025
- Next accounts due
- 30 Jun 2027
Directors & PSC
- O'SULLIVAN, Carl — directorAppointed 24 Jan 2025
- HAGER, Florian, Mr. — directorAppointed 28 Sept 2023
- LANG, Serena — directorAppointed 07 Sept 2022
- SCAPENS, Ian Lloyd — directorAppointed 23 Sept 2020
- TYLER, Andrew Oliver, Dr — directorAppointed 01 Jun 2020
- GIBBS, Peter John — directorAppointed 13 Sept 2019
- Accord Bidco Limited — person with significant controlownership of shares 75 to 100 percent · voting rights 75 to 100 percent · right to appoint and remove directors
Financial
Filed accounts from Companies House.
No financial filings on record
Turnover, profit and headcount appear here once audited or micro-entity accounts are filed at Companies House.
Org tree
Group structure and ownership.
Independent. No parent company or subsidiaries recorded at Companies House for this entity.
Social value
Commitments mapped to the Government Social Value Model themes.
No social-value commitments yet
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