Blackburn with Darwen — tender awards
Public-procurement contracts awarded by Blackburn with Darwen in the last 12 months, in aggregate — by category, competition type and threshold level. Individual awards are on the filtered search and browse page.
Supplier identity is never aggregated on this page — a winning bidder's name is often a person's name, not a company's, so it follows the same registered-access rule as the browse page's supplier search.
Last 12 months
Since October 2025: 14 awards worth £81,538,000 combined.
Framework agreements can dominate a year's total: A large share of awarded value comes from framework agreements, whose published value is often the framework's ceiling — the maximum that can be drawn down over its full, often multi-year, lifetime — rather than money spent in the year it was awarded. Checked directly against real data: a single council's own largest year can be dominated by framework agreements alone. A single large framework can make one year look far larger than its neighbours without that reflecting actual annual spend.
This total covers only awards recorded specifically against Blackburn with Darwen — nationally, just 11% of award rows in the last 12 months carry a single council attribution at all (national frameworks and non-council awarding bodies account for the rest), so Blackburn with Darwen's real procurement may be understated here.
Top categories by value
| CPV category | Value | Contracts | Typical award |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carriageway resurfacing works | £20,000,000 | 1 | £20,000,000 |
| Construction work for highways, roads | £20,000,000 | 1 | £20,000,000 |
| Social work services with accommodation | £17,300,000 | 2 | £8,650,000 |
| Surface work for highways | £10,000,000 | 2 | £5,000,000 |
| Refuse recycling services | £9,000,000 | 1 | £9,000,000 |
| Social work and related services | £4,009,600 | 4 | £1,221,400 |
| Health and social work services | £693,200 | 1 | £693,200 |
| Gully cleaning services | £360,000 | 1 | £360,000 |
| Training services | £175,200 | 1 | £175,200 |
A hollow bar marks a category built from 2 or fewer tenders — its total can be almost entirely one large framework agreement, not a genuine spending pattern across many contracts.
Competition type
| Competition type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| open | £81,538,000 | 14 |
Threshold level
| Threshold level | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| Open procedure | £81,538,000 | 14 |
Contract type
| Contract type | Value | Contracts |
|---|---|---|
| works | £50,000,000 | 4 |
| services | £31,538,000 | 10 |
Single-bid contracts
In the last 12 months, 1 of 14 contracts with a recorded bid count (7%) had only one bid. See these contracts → The single-bid-rate ranking shows a different figure for the same measure — it uses a fixed calendar year, not the trailing 12 months shown here. Nationally, over the same trailing 12 months, 10% of contracts had only one bid.
Figures published by UK Find a Tender Service and Contracts Finder (OCDS award notices). Accessed 2026-10-18.