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Council contract award value for every UK local authority district, ranked from highest to lowest, from official public data.

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Council contract award value — 18 of 361 areas ranked

This page ranks 18 of 361 areas at this level — the rest have no published figure for this dataset (see the coverage notes above for why, where one applies).

Figures as of 2026 for most areas (2024 for areas whose publisher had not yet released newer figures), published by UK Find a Tender Service — OCDS award notices. Accessed 2026-10-22.

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The sum of the awarded value of every contract a local authority's own tendering process awarded in a year, as published via Find a Tender and Contracts Finder. It counts CONTRACTS AWARDED, not overall council spending.

Council contract award value, 18 of 361 areas ranked
RankLocal authority districtCouncil contract award value
1Cheshire East£14,400,000
2Dacorum£9,000,000
3Westminster£5,823,849
4Winchester£5,343,420
5Redcar and Cleveland£2,300,000
6Manchester£1,800,000
7Northumberland£1,666,546
8Hastings£1,492,002
9Derby£1,475,728
10Leicester£1,416,517
11Nottingham£356,000
12Liverpool£346,119
13Halton£230,000
14Basingstoke and Deane£189,300
15Chesterfield£149,340
16Southampton£114,000
17Coventry£88,742
18Runnymede£0

Before you use these figures

  • Winning bid only — no data on who competed: Find a Tender and Contracts Finder give an aggregate count of bids received but never identify a losing bidder anywhere in the published data. This shows the WINNING bid only, not a record of who competed.
  • Council procurement, not all public spending: Figures cover only the local authority's own direct procurement published via these two award-notice sources. Central government, NHS trusts, universities and other public bodies also spend within every area but procure nationally or regionally, with no single-authority figure to attribute -- their contracts are excluded rather than guessed at.
  • Latest figure: 2024 — 2 years old: This dataset is published annually and the publisher hasn't released anything newer. Nothing is missing from this page.

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Council contract award value, 18 of 361 areas ranked
Caveats: Winning bid only — no data on who competed; Council procurement, not all public spending; Latest figure: 2024 — 2 years old
StatsMapped last confirmed these figures unchanged on 6 Sep 2026.
Source: UK Find a Tender Service — OCDS award notices
https://statsmapped.com/united-kingdom/rankings/etenders

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